[BlessedRhiannon]

I've been feeling really, really down lately, and when I got to T today, I was right on the verge of tears.

I normally have my appointment at 1 on Thursdays, but I had to move it to noon for just this one day. When I checked in with the receptionist, she gave me an odd look and said someone else was already there for the same time slot. I sat down and just started melting down internally. I honestly didn't know what I was going to do if T had double booked appointments. I really, really needed to see her and I was sitting there imagining her coming out and telling me "oops, sorry, we'll have to reschedule." Fortunately, the other person got their time wrong, and they had the 1 pm time slot, not noon. I can not even begin to describe the relief I felt when T indicated that she was ready for me to come on back. I even told T that I was so glad she hadn't accidentally double booked, because I'm not sure I would have been able to handle that right then.

I really hate that things like this cause an internal meltdown...but they do. I wish I were in a place where I could have just accepted that there might be a scheduling problem and T can only see one client at a time, and that client might not have been me. Unfortunately, I'm pretty sure that if T had said that she couldn't see me, I'd have kept myself under control long enough to get to the car, and then completely burst in to tears. I'm glad that didn't happen and it all worked out...but the few moments of panic was bad enough.

[stopdog]

I am glad it worked out for you.

[CantExplain]

Will you talk to your T about this, Rhi?

[Chopin99]

My T double booked me once. Luckily, the receptionist caught it early that day, called me, and said T would tack on a session for me at the end of the day because it was her fault (and I was the one she booked second). It worked out fine.