Phenomenon

The observable occurrence of which I speak is somewhat personal.  Not really, but you have to be prepared for it.  Most of my scrub pants, a certain pair especially, tended to fall down throughout the clinic day.  It was one of the only times I was thankful for our knee length lab jackets.  However, another factor in this phenomenon is that my shirt (especially if it was one of our purple or grey Weber shirts) would start to shimmy up.  Even before my belly started growing this would happen.  It just got worse with the uteran increase.  You can imagine, that by the end of morning appts I was functioning on very low mid-section coverage!  One day, Sarah helped me document.  Now remember, I warned you so don't be offended by what you are about to see. 

Not bad for an 18 week fetus!

The lab coat saved you all from witnessing THIS every day.  You're welcome.

Lunch!

Many of you know that lunch was a large part of my happiness at school.  

Possibilities were endless.  

Company was always top notch.  

Clinic gossip was delightful and often hilarious.  

I see no down side.

Lunch from WSU Clinic was often $2 at the Institute.  It ranged from Chick Fil-A, Arby's, Chinese, you name it they had it.  Close, cheap, and fun.  Runner up is probably Burger King.  MeChel and I often brought coupons and split meals.  Pita Pit once with MeChel, Kelsey, and Adrienne.  

Lunch from the VA was often Wendy's at first, but then flipped to Jimmy Johns.  All I know is that I could BARELY get myself out of bed in time to make carpool, so ain't no way in HECK I was also making myself a lunch.  Maybe I brought a lunch one day at the VA Spring Semester, and only because we were going to The Pie afterwards.  

Jimmy John's

At the Union.  Michelle, Karen, MeChel on NCUR Day.

Me, pretending these girls are my friends.

Whoa, Michelle.  What's up? 

There we go!

Burger King.  MeChel had to straighten me out on which smoothie was mine.

The BEST large group picture ever. directly following a pretty darn good hygiene joke.

I think the hygiene joke went something like this.  Alright everybody to the distal, you need to get mesial, TO THE MIDLINE!

Final Clinic Day Potluck!

No offense, but not as good as the previous one.  You can't hardly see the right quadrant!

The Best Memories at lunch.

Za Banquet!

The moment that has been talked about since Day 1 of Senior Year.  The Banquet.  $28 a plate, steak or chicken at The Timbermine.  Chris, Mom and Dad accompanied me.  It was fun.  Kind of taken over by random Awards and Professional Sponsors, but still fun.  It is very weird to be there with all my classmates, but not really be in the same atmosphere as class or clinic.  I kept trying to whisper to people or get somebody's attention about an inside joke, but they were 10 tables away surrounded by a bunch of people I didn't know.  Strange.  I did enjoy sitting at our table with McCall and her family.

My honest impressions were:

If you were a SADHA officer, you got an award.
If you were a TA, you got an award.
If Kami Hanson liked the way you blogged, you got an award (that was for me).

Not that those who got awards, didn't deserve them, it just seems like an all or nothing thing.  We focus so much on helping each other out through the entire program, it seems out of place to single some people out.  If you got an award, congrats.  If you didn't, you're still awesome.

I did get the Golden Scaler Award, but I'm not really sure what that means.  I'd like to ask, without appearing like I'm fishing for compliments.  What Kami said was, "The Golden Scaler award goes to one of my favorite students.  She is a blogger, a media user, I always think she is joking when she is serious . . . Marianne Moody."  At least that is what I remember her saying.  My Dad barely made it back from the bif to hear my name being called.  Prof. Bossenberger did say a little spiel about how I come from a dental family and she went to high school with my Uncle John.  If I find out more about the Golden Scaler, I'll let you know.

There was some mention at Graduation that some left the banquet feeling less than honored, because they didn't get an award.  And that makes me think, they shouldn't do those awards at the Banquet.  They should do them in class, where it is just us.  Especially the scholarships for the Junior Class.  Why are they announced at our Senior Banquet?  They are not pertinent to us at all.  I guess that is how it always is, and probably always will be.   

These next pictures need an explanation.  All year long I have poked fun at the picture of the UDHA (Utah Dental Hygienists' Association) official pictures that is in all the programs for conventions and such throughout the year.  She just looks a little different, and I imagine hygienists' (especially those seeking to be Association Presidents') to look more like Costley to be honest.  Anyway, when she sat behind me at the banquet I knew I needed to take advantage of the opportunity to take a picture with her.  I learned my lesson about poking fun though, because she was SUPER NICE.  I took the picture thinking to maybe do a mocking sort of post, but no more.  She was really nice, and I learned my lesson.  It was funny though to see Costley come up and schmooze her.  Thanking her for coming over and over again.
 

The picture I poked fun at all year long.

The picture of a real nice lady. And me. Also a real nice lady.

Another side story.  After taking this picture with the UDHA President, Costley gave me a hug and said congratulations.  I assume she meant for the Golden Scaler award, but then she said, "No, aren't you expecting??"  I got that again from Prof. Bossenberger later in the evening.  "Congratulations!"  "For what?"  "When is this little baby due?"  It was funny, because I hadn't even thought they'd be congratulating me for that.

TWINNERS!

We Did IT!

We went to Denny's, which is equivalent to Village Inn.  

We got hot chocolate and discussed our lives.  

It was great fun.  

The invitation is ALWAYS open to all. 

Preterm Nostalgia

This is it friends.  The last time I will wipe down my unit.  The last time I will bag my instrument cassette.  The last time I will get an HHx/OD/Scale check (not so sad about that one).  The last time I will treat patients based off requirements.  The last time I will be in this unit with Karen and Leigh.  I could go on, obviously.

Today was a super fun day for me.  It didn't work out for anybody to come in this morning (and I really did put forth some effort) so I got organized, got ready for the afternoon, got my patient list ready for Chelsea, tallied up all my requirements, got my Black Bean Dip ready for our luncheon, took Alexander's test :), and soaked it all in.

There was WAY too much yummy food at our Potluck lunch today.  Yummy.  Thanks everyone.

My Dad came in this afternoon.  I was somewhat resistant to the idea of doing a new HH, and full charting just for one cleaning, but I'm glad we did it.  It was fun.  It got SUPER hot here in the afternoon though.  Wow.  To chart restorations my Dad looked in the handheld mirror and the #5 mirror and told me what each tooth had.  Julie saw it, it was awesome.

VA Farewell

Love Connie

Love Katie

Helping Hands

All these prego girls.

After a small walking journey, we got to The Pie!

The Chedda Pull Aparts = YUMMY!

Pizza Pizza!

Sunburn

Apparently it is obvious that I was out in the glorious sun yesterday.  I asked my morning patient if she had been enjoying the nice weather and she told me she is allergic to the sun.  Oh, ok.

The semester is winding down, OBVIOUSLY.  I saw a Class V of Kristie's this morning.  I did have a guy scheduled for the afternoon, I texted and called him yesterday to confirm.  When I called it rang like once then went to his answering machine.  Read - he "rejected" my call.  SO, I called him today on MeChel's phone (HA) he answered.  I said, "Hey are you going to come to the dental hygiene clinic today at 12:30?"  "Oh crap, I forgot!  Uh . . . I don't know, I don't think so."  I said, "Ok thanks" and hung up.  Not worth my breath.  I thought he may be a Class III that I would need earlier in the semester, and when I was trying to schedule him in like February he said he could come in on April 5th.  I said, that is a pretty long ways away.  His response?  "I know, I'm pretty busy."  Busy at putting things off!  Whatev.  His loss.

I need to figure out AmeriCorps hours and money.  So help me.  Instead of being bored out of my mind this afternoon I am going to see a Midtown patient who will need XRAYS!!!  Hooray.  She just may need a few more PA's than she thought she did.

7 PA's, that is all I need.  I could wait and hope for it at the VA, but if someone else needs them there and they could get them that would be good.  So . . . I'm going to try to step up and do it NOW!

Lunch - who knows?  The possibilities are endless.

P.S. I forgot my phone and my loupes.  Nice.  Why didn't I follow through with the thought to get my loupes out of the office @ 3:00am when I was having some gastrointestinal distress, because I am stupid.  That is why.