Tuesday 25th October - Tough day in work

Today work was sooo frustratng. The DA i work with is great but she has so much energy and likes to talk...even when your running really late shes still talking to the patient and you just want to get them out of the room! she even finds me extra patients to see...for instance 10 minutes till our tea break and shes grabbed me a denture review from one of the other dentists...i said are they running late? she said no but i thought we could see them because shes writting up her notes. In the end the guy came in and there were all sorts of problems with the denture so i was late for my break then....nice one. Just before lunch i had to deal with post op pain from a patient who another dentist had taken a tooth out on. She was a right drama queen and thought she was dying and was trying to hold her breath to make herself pass out. She said her eye was sore and persistently kept rubbing it which made it worse and screamed with tears when i said i had to numb her up to clean out the socket. Her poor boyfriend. Then after lunch i had a guy, really lovely patient but hes in a wheel chair and needs the skippy lift to get into the chair. Its a big ordeal for him to get to the clinic and the whole skippy lift things takes forever and we need so much consent. This guys wife has been with him for every appointment and then the DA turned round and said...whose going to sign for the consent....the patient has no use of his hands so the wife was going to do it but no...shes not allowd because she doesnt have a piece of paper saying she has rights of looking after the patient. what a load of crap...so they were going to send the patient away just because of no signed consent...in the end i got the patient to grab the pen between his arms and scribble something...i wasnt going to send hm away the poor guy. It went from bad to worse anyway because the guy has previously been on oral bisphosphonates....so 1.we have protocols to give all this antibiotics coverage crap which i had done but 2. the fosfomax makes the bone like lead! i had 2 teeth to take out. the first one took 45 minutes...and the second one a further 45 minutes with bone removal (not ideal) and the help of another dentist. The poor patient didnt moan once and everytime i asked f he was ok, nodded and smiled. What a trooper. I felt like a really crappy dentist...and then 4.30 i still had 2 patients to see before 5. Denture inserts. One wasnt my patient and of course there were problems with the denture....eventually he was happy with it and the DA wanted to make sure he could take it out...which he had already shown me he could do...but VERY slowly. So i was running even more late....and then she talks.....4.50pm my last patient in....convinced him the denture fit fine.  What a day!

I got home...could easily have fallen asleep but i had cooked a stew so we had some of that. Gaz and i even had our first argument since being out here...and it was over beef stew (lol). I was grouchy from work any way and served up the stew but gaz said he didnt want the veg, he only wanted the meat so could he pick all the healthy stuff out.  For some reason it became a big deal that he didnt want the veg, only the meat...the argument only lasted 5 minutes but its all sorted now and he ended up eating the veg (bless him) but we have compromised and ive agreed to put extra meat in the stew next time so he can pick it out lol.

We then watched the rest of Arrested development series 2 which we have now completed.