Showing posts with label Dental school. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dental school. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Thursday, August 1, 2013

Stitching saves my sanity

Every so often I get this niggling feeling in the back of my mind about the value of the time I spend stitching. I haven't really calculated it, since it varies from week to week, but I would estimate it to be about 10 hours a week, give or take a few. I wonder sometimes if it's a waste and that my time is better spent exercising or reading on finances or drilling crown preps in the backup lab. Let's face it, I likely wouldn't do those things even if I wasn't a stitcher.

These past few weeks have shown me that stitching is absolutely a necessary part of my downtime. I have had a few rough clinic sessions with my patients and almost every time, I think immediately of my projects waiting at home and what a relief it will be to stitch and feel my worries, anxiety and stress melt away.