Last week I suddenly got to know that my social worker since two years has decided to leave for another workplace. She told me in a meeting and she had both prepared a card on where she wished me good luck and other things and she had also prepared a little "lecture" with things she thought would be usable for me in the future. She said I was her only client who she did this for and she didn´t want to end our contact by mail or just letting me know that I will see another social worker.

I was very touched by all this and cried a lot during this meeting. I told her I really appreciated what she had done and during the meeting she told me, as she will be working as a social worker like one more month or so, that I was allowed to e-mail her if I wanted and also that we could perhaps meet once more if she could fit that into her schedule.

By that I wanted to give something little to her and I bought her a card and a little, cheap, key ring. I wrote that I had appreciated what she had done and as she brought me some book tips, I mentioned a couple of book tips which I thought can be usable for her in her new job. I said I wish she could have stayed my social worker but that I understand the working conditions that made her leave.

At the end of the card I wrote she could e-mail me just a line or so if she wanted just to let her understand that I didn´t see this card as a definitive end or that she shouldn´t contact me anymore or something like that.

I posted this card in a postbox outside the municipal house where she works and a receptionist collects the mail everyday. But I then don´t know how it´s delivered and this postbox is also an "open" one which means someone else could open it and take out the mail in there if they wanted.

I though expect that my social worker got my card and the key ring this Monday and I haven´t heard anything. I know it´s only Wednesday but I begin to think that I won´t hear from her. I of course expected like a thank you or some comment on what I wrote. Nothing big but just a little something that let me know she had got the card.

Perhaps she finds it suddenly inappropriate even if she was the one giving me a card and hugs during our meeting when she told me she was leaving.

If you were in this situation, would you expect an e-mail from her where she thanked for the card or commented something about receiving it?