BTW... thank you all for your kind thoughts and prayers. My receptionist brought in a gal she knew that was a newly graduated dental assistant and had passed her x-ray exam...so she is legal to take x-rays. She seems to be a very hard worker and I think she will work out. Told her she would be my "temp" until I make it legal otherwise.
Of course she will need some intensive training, but she was so willing to just do anything and everything. I even had her do a perio exam with me and she did great on the computer.
My old chairside is still in the hospital. I have serious doubts she will ever work again. I think she'll need to quit so she can get on Access (AZ's Obamacare med ins) and disability. I can't imagine her heart improving enough anytime soon so that she would be able to work... and I don't want her to come back and die in my office. Makes me sad, She's worked for me since September of 1987... but she let herself go, never ate right, the only exercise she got was taking x-rays... her heart is double the size of a regular heart and her "elasticity numbers" are off the charts.. a normal heart is 150, her's was tested at 1930.... which means her heart is just a big soft blob. It can't pump enough blood to oxygenate her body.
My receptionist has also worked for me for MANY years. She had to do almost everything with the exception for the hours my wife worked the front desk this morning... .and she is due with baby#2 the end of August....
Stay tuned for more of "As the World Turns" at the dental office....
