Unbelieveable. I have found a new board patient out of shear luck.

• Friday at 6 pm I found out my board patient moved to Chicago.
• Friday night and Saturday morning I prepared flyers to advertise for a patient. If I find one I'm going to make them an offer they can't refuse.
• Saturday- 2,000 flyers on the windshields of cars at the Ogden Walmart. Good response 7 calls that day.
• My WREB exan notification comes in the mail. Friday, 9 May, 8am. My heart sinks.
  
• Sunday - 2,000 flyers on the windshields of cars at the Riverdale Walmart, Target, Sams and Home Depot. A few more calls including one from the manager of Walmart. What-a-ya mean I cant do that? Too late the flyers are already on the cars.
• Monday morning. Came into class early to change my mockboard time from 8am to 12:30pm. I need the time to possibly find a patient.
• Called my screening patients and have a 1:30 and a 2:30 patient.
• Lilly was too busy to help me with calling a Spanish speaking patient.
• Looked to a couple of no shows that I though might work out.
  
• Called Melissa Underwood and left message about using her as a possible board patient. Made an offer of $300 (about $100 per hour) if she qualified and I would pay for all the tx.
• She called me back and said that she could make it in at 12:30 for the screening.
• SHE QUALIFIES!!! I take a great set of xrays.
• I ask if she can make it into the clinic Tuesday at 8am for mockboard. She says she has to work but can make it in later in the day. "Will 12:30 be OK?"
  
• Merideth says someone is looking out after me. My agnostic self is leaning in that direction.
• My patient agrees to keep the payment quiet. I know everyone is trying to get by with cheap. However, this is like NASA sending Armstrong, Aldren and Collins to the moon and then deciding not to spend the extra 50 bucks for the gas to land them. I don't care what it takes, I'm not letting this patient slip through my fingers. Besides, I was going to pay Rigoberto more because I was paying for his dental restorations.