Having a hard time...

Today I had a class three patient. He was a really sweet guy. He rode the bus all the way from Salt Lake to come to the clinic. I scaled the lower right quad and gave him 2 injections. I had a difficult time cleaning this quad. Finally, I went over to instructor Wold and asked her, "at what point do I just give up?"  I did not feel confident about this quad at all. It still felt rough to me, but no matter what I did, I wasn't making a difference. Dr. Hanson came over to do my scale check, and while she was checking she said, "you're having a rough time aren't you?" My heart sank. I thought she was going to ask me if I had even scaled anything. I looked at her and sunk my head down and replied, "yes! I really am." She looked at me, with a confused face and said, "I wasn't talking to you, I was talking to the patient." Then she started to laugh. She told me that I did really well, I didn't miss any spots at all. The patient on the other hand, was having a hard time keeping his mouth open and probably would have benefited from a bite block. WHAT A RELIEF!! I am glad I did well, but I need to work on my confidence level obviously. We joked about that for the rest of the day!