Passing

After graduation passed, I was still not able to practice dental hygiene.

I first needed to get my license in order to start looking for a job.

Anywho, to get this license, you need to do a series of exams.

Three multiple choice question related exams that included 

laws, patient cases, and theoritical dental hygiene questions.

Another exam you must take is a 

clinical exam that you must present a patient with the given requirements

and perform a dental cleaning on them.

Before this weekend, 

I had completed the first 3 exams and passed them all without having to retake them.

This clinical exam was a big nerve wrecking test!

Looking for a patient was so much time consuming...
The patient was always too light,
OR
 too heavy
OR
the patient qualified BUT his/her schedule didn't compliment the date of my exam.

I screened over 10 patients and finally found one.

The day of the test, because of my beautiful nerves, 

I almost walked out and accepted to fail.

But a couple of deep breaths and a positive patient later, 

I was able to send my nerves to hell and complete the exam.

Of course I could have picked up my results the day after I took the exam, 

but I was out celebrating my birthday and didn't quite make it on time to the site. 

So two days later, my hygiene peeps and I went together to receieve the enevelopes containing our preliminary scores. 

The results were shocking...

It's upseting to have to say not all my friends received a passing score. 

Believe me, I felt very depressed.

But someone once posted:

"Progress has little to do with speed, but much to do with direction."

I hope they know they can count on me for full support.

Everything happens for a reason.

What's meant to be, will eventually find its way.
This 22nd birthday I received one of the greatest gifts I can ever give myself.
I gave myself the career I wanted.
All the hardships have sailed and success is now in full navigation.
Happy 22nd birthday to me!
May it continue to bring me success
:)