Last Days in Dental Office Management

I am sitting here in class, the second to the last day of class, and I am bored out of my damn mind! This is actually pointless. Our professor quit the week before last so not only were our final exams moved up to last week instead of this week but we have has 2 different teachers sitting in here acting as though we know their teaching style or what the hell they expect of us. When at the same time they dont even know our syllabus for this class. It has made me beyond pissed off but I have rolled with the punches. What has me seriously erked right now is that not only my final but a chapter test I took last week, I received a damn C on! I dont get C's! Especially not on final exams that I know I did right. Seriously the errors she pulled out werent even errors! I didnt get the code wrong and I did exactly what was asked of me. What the fuck ever! I do not care at this point because all that means is that my high A will be a low A or it will be a B. I am fine with that given the circumstances. 

I am so ready for this 2 week break. I need it. I am going to deep clean my house, take my munchkin hiking, get all my notes together for my clinicals, catch up on my rest, hit the gym like a mad woman, and maybe even throw a party. I havent had one at my place yet and need something to take me out of this depressed bullshit I have been dealing with. 

On a completely different note, my munchkins' class play was last night and it was so so so so so so freaking adorable! I was so impressed! She knew words to Christmas songs I have been trying my whole life to memorize. LOL!

Well....besides that there is nothing to report. 

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Instagram

So, recently I have fallen into the social media trap, which I wrote about in another post. I am now and instagram - er. LOL! It just sounds so absurd but whatever. I, however, am not posting pics of my meals. Nope. I fell into the category of annoying animal and pet pics. It's actually not to bad a way to waste time or when you need a smile to just scroll through the hundreds of pics posted or adorable turtles, cats, dogs, etc. Check me out at @ms.elkins_yall on instagram. #follow4follow

Over the past few weeks I really needed those random, no reason smiles, and laughs from adorable little videos.

Per usual there have been so many things that have just tried their hardest to tear me down. BUT! My dear readers, I will over come and I will keep this positivity because as I have written so many times before. As much as I want to bitch, moan, and complain; I know there are people out there fighting much harsher battles, dealing with worse people, and overcoming so much more. I can't begin to innumerate the countless blessing I know I have.

Speaking of one of those blessings, I am SO happy to announce that I am only 1 more class away from my externship and degree in dental!!! I think that I'm going to continue onto my bachelor's degree after I get placed in a good oral surgeons office but for right now, keeping my head in the game, grades as high as possible, and graduating at the top of my class is my main focus and goal. Besides, hopefully getting my mom her surgery as soon as possible. It's quite pathetic really, now that I know the inside tricks of the trade and some of the dental secrets, that insurance companies and the scam artist dentists my mom has seen have tried to claim that what she needs is purely cosmetic. ITS NOT! The whole thing pisses me off to no end. I know there are good doctors and surgeons out there that have dealt with having to surgically extract full dentition of someone who has protein s and c deficiency,  and has been on blood thinners a while. I will find them, hell I hope to work for one. I want to make a change and not only help my mom but help others like my mom who can't even get cleanings done because of the lack of education on the disorder and on the effects of blood thinners on the body. She wasn't even told when she started the blood thinners that they caused bone loss. Most don't realize it because the people placed on blood thinners normally are already elderly and have no viable teeth left so the bone loss affects their spine or hips and it's attributed to osteoporosis,  not the constant thinning of their blood which weakens the bone strength. My mom, however, still had beautiful teeth. Now she has maybe 6. They have all broken off, piece by piece, brittle and too damaged for her to even brush them. She has to rinse her mouth with scope and peroxide just to keep the periodontal infection from becoming sepsis in her blood. And still, insurance and the dentist and/or oral surgeons she has seen across the country see the necessary hospitalization and extraction of her teeth under the monitoring of a hemotologist to be "cosmetic". BULLSHIT! Your' oral health effects your' over all health. Plane and simple. Look it up....

Okay, I didn't mean for that to turn into a rant. I guess it was just on my mind.

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