Posted by JennyR on August 9, 2001, at 16:56:27
My therapist told me in June that he would take the first week in July off and the last two weeks of August. I was there today and he says I'll see you the Thursday after Labor Day. And I say what? What about next week? He says I'll be away. Next week through Labor Day. I say you never mentioned next week, you said the last two weeks in August. He said, yes I guess I said the last couple of weeks. I guess I should have gone over dates. I said you definitely never said three weeks. Actually, from now til when I see him again will be four weeks. He apologized, realized he forgot to tell me what plans he made. Meanwhile he made such a big deal when coming back from the one week in early July asking me a million times what it was like for me was I okay, seemingly unable to accept that it wasn't a big deal (this is the 4th summer with him, it's not ever been that big a dea). So he makes a big deal about the one week he took off ("you must have had a reaction, after all I mean a lot to you, after all, you're used to seeing me twice a week, after all, you're used to me 'being there'((hate that expression)) for you. So he makes this big deal about one week away - which amounted to 10 days of not seeing him, and forgets to tell me that this vacation is not 2 weeks, but 3 1/2 translating into 4 weeks of not seeing him. And this guy is no novice. And we usually have a great rapport. He tells me this on the way out, at the door, not realizing that it's news to me. So now I'm upset, but too bad, because I won't see him for 4 weeks. So I can just stew in it, in how inconsiderate and thoughtless he was. And there were a couple of things I would have addressed if I knew there wasn't going to be a next week. Man, I just can't believe he tells me at the door. He apologized, but still, I think that was incredibly unprofessional.
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