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Old Feb 08, 2018, 07:51 PM
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Originally Posted by musinglizzy View Post
Mine canceled on me last night.... was supposed to have a session at 2 today, and she Emailed me around 9:15. She DID give an explanation.... lots of snow headed our way, and she was flying out Friday for a weekend conference. She didn't want to risk flight cancelations, so she rescheduled her flight for this morning. HOnestly, I find it helpful to know why, and am thankful my T does tell me.

I was really irritated.....not only had I just taken care of "an issue" I'd been having with soemone, I timed it knowing I'd have therapy the next day and could talk about it. But, I also had to scramble with vehicle swapping for today, and had JUST arranged my plan for that. I wasn't irritated so much that she canceled, but because she didn't give me a little more notice. She waited till she had a chance to access her Email, because we don't talk on the phone, and although we used to text, she made a no-text boundary a couple of years ago. But I would think, in the case of a cancellation, she could have shot me a quick text instead of waiting until she got to her laptop later in the evening. She didn't know, of course, that I needed my husband's vehicle today, and also needed mine for my session, but had I found out even half an hour earlier, that would have saved some trouble (actually taking hubby into work so he could bring the company vehicle home, so I could use the truck to haul a horse this morning, and my car for my session). The parking lot is small, and it's not fun trying to park his big 'ol truck in there....and I didn't want to unhook the trailer anyway, just to go to my session, then have to hook it back up again. So, next session I will bring this up. I will (and do) abide by her no texting rule, but I still would prefer if she's cancelling, that she text me to let me know when she knows, except waiting until her "usual" computer time before she goes to bed. I was irritated, because of all of the planning I'd done to make it to the session, just to have her cancel it 10 minutes after I got back from driving hubby to work to get his work truck.
Ugh, that's really annoying--you'd think she could break "no texting" rule for that! What about if she says texting is only for scheduling? (So would also work if you had to cancel on her for some reason.) That's my current T's boundary around that--text is only for scheduling--and it seems to work pretty well.
Thanks for this!
LadyShadow