Monday, March 5, 2012

Stressed!!

Today in clinic I had the goal of me being able to scale four quads on my class 3 patient... Well as we all know clinic does not go according to plan. So here it goes, my class three pt came in today and I was going to start scaling, we finished her OD last appointment. My patient is diabetic and has some other health concerns as well. Last appt her blood glucose level was a little bit out of range, and so I tested it again today to make sure everything was normal. Well to our surprise her reading ended up being 306! Well as well all know that is way way out of range. So I show instructor Vinning and he tells me there is no possible way I can see her today and that I am going to have to do a physicians consult ( yeah me), so I took her blood glucose again using a different monitor. It was still way high reading 285. My patient doesn't speak very good English either, so I had to call her daughter and get the name of her physician to see if I can hurry and get a hold of her Dr. Well no such luck at getting a hold of her Dr. they were on lunch, so I decided to reschedule my patient for a different day.
So now I am freaking out because I don't know who I am going to call to come in on such short notice, we lucky for me I have the best pod ever and Sierra happen to have two kids scheduled and let me see one of them. She is so so nice. So I was able to a cute 3 year old girl today and clean her teeth. The day couldn't of turned out better.

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