Wednesdays

So Wednesday nights are really boring because Josh has class all evening. Basically I get home from class around the time that he has to leave. Well most Wednesdays we'll have about an hour for dinner but tonight he had to go to class early so I really didn't get to see him. Then I have to pick him up from school and when he is teaching the classroom at work (which is 99% of the time, it just happens to be the other 1% tonight) he comes home, changes, and leaves. So On Wednesdays I barely get to see my husband. Its kind of lonely around here without him.

Which is why I have time to post these beautiful pictures of Jephtha's fungus that he grew in his very own oral cavity. My oral pathology professor culutured out the fungus and basically we saw both straight ones and circle ones. The circle ones (or spores) basically mean that it is a VERY active form. So everyone be proud of Jeph, he's a great host for growing fungus.

But actually he was only great at growing it because he was soooo very sick and was on some pretty strong antibiotics that killed all of the normal flora in his mouth allowing the fungus to take over. O the wonderful things we have lectures about in dental school....

So enjoy the pictures!

Jeph meets the Twins

Today Jeph got to meet a couple of Twins players. He almost missed them though because of a stupid CT scan. Anyways here's some pictures but I'm sure Jeph would love to tell his brothers and sisters about it so call him in the hospital to hear more!

Radiograph Thursday and Injection Friday

On Thursday I took my first full mouth set of radiographs. We did it on a skull not a real person but it was still pretty fun. It was actually very difficult and it will only get more difficult since a skull doesn't have lips or a tongue and you can see through the back of the head to make sure everything is lined up. But I'll get a few more practice runs before I have to take any on a real person. However, we had one day to practice local anesthesia and now the next time we perform an injection will be a real patient. Which in my case is quite unfortunate...

So we had to partner up with a classmate, well since I'm pregnant I can't recieve local anesthesia (lucky me!) however I still had to practice the technique on someone. My inferior alveolar nerve block (numbing half of the lower jaw) went very well. My infiltrative injection (numbing one tooth at a time) also went very well. I then had the instructor come show me how to do a posterior superior alveolar nerve block (numbing half of the upper jaw). With all the other ones he just pointed to where to stick the needle and I went from there. For some reason with the PSA he actually gave the injection, distributing some anesthesia and then had me do it. Well I did it and it went fine, until we started cleaning up our cubicle. All of the sudden my partner said hmmm my face feels a little funny and our instructor was noticing some swelling. Well very quickly after that my partner got this huge bump on his cheek. My instructor said it was a hematoma (basically a bruise) and since the blood has no where to go it pushes the cheek out. Well supposedly these things last 2-3 weeks! Oops... It really wasn't my fault, and it happens to dentists all the time. What happens is that the place where you need to inject is a crazy network of arteries and veins and if you happen to tear through a couple or puncture one it might just bleed enough to cause a hematoma. So I did it (maybe, since my instructor gave the injection first its a 50/50 chance that it was me) but it wasn't my fault exactly, these things just happen.

So if you ever need work done on your upper teeth make sure that you don't have a wedding or other major event in the next couple of weeks, just in case.

School AND a Baby?!?! Gasp!

Well my final semester of classes has started. After this semester I will mainly be in clinic working on real patients! A little scary, I know. Next week I get to give my first local anesthetic injected on a fellow classmate. But because I'm pregnant I don't have to be anyone's patient! I picked the best semester to be pregnant. Or not... Yesterday at my doctors appointment my doctor basically told Josh and me that we were so foolish for thinking we could have this baby and be in school. She absolutely could not believe that I wasn't going to take more than a week off from classes. I told her that I had to finish the semester. I know it will be hard but I can do it and now I am even more motivated just to prove her wrong. Maybe she was remember medical school and her residency and how she worked 80 hour weeks, or maybe she was just having a bad day and it her concern came out as criticism- I don't know. Josh and I will do just fine we have such supportive family and friends and we both want this baby so much that we are willing to work very hard to make that happen (besides we can't really give it back now can we?) And now we just have more motivation- to prove our doctor and anyone else who doesn't think we can do this wrong.

This last semester is going to go by so fast, it seems like every week there is something going on with family or friends, tests, or doctors appointments, I won't have time to sit around and think about how "foolish" we were for wanting a baby now. And before we know it there will be a baby and everything will be just fine.