Posted by peddidle on July 20, 2007, at 11:57:23
In reply to Re: still no email » peddidle, posted by Dinah on July 18, 2007, at 19:59:16
> I think it's reasonable to call her and leave a message to ask if she got your email, and if she could call.
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> Does she have any rules that you know of about contact during the summer?**Not that I know of. In fact, I was supposed to have a regular phone call with her during the summer. She then said that emailing would be better, because a phone call obviously relies a lot on talking and she wouldn't even get a chance to try and interpret my body language.
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> My therapist used to tell me to just call and remind him when he'd forgotten something. There for a while, I was calling him and saying "Dinah. Phone Call. Reminder." He's doing much better now.**I think she knows she isn't good about remembering things like that. One time I was supposed to either stop in quickly for a check-in or something, or go to an anxiety workshop on this one Monday (both were, ultimately, optional though). Well, I had sent her an email the Friday before, and when she wrote back, she said "see you Thursday." So I didn't stop in. When I saw her on Thursday, she asked if I didn't come on Monday because of the email. I said yes, and she admitted that she had forgotten about it until she looked at her calendar on Monday and saw that I was supposed to stop in. She said she tends to forget appointments if they are outside of her regular routine. I guess I can't really blame her for that.
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> I'm not suggesting you be quite that blunt without her prior permission, which I had. But a gentle reminder maybe?**Yeah, I don't think she'd mind a gentle reminder... actually, she probably wouldn't mind a blunt reminder, either, but you're right, I wouldn't do that without prior permission. I'll think about it, and see if I can come up with a gentle reminder from my typical passive-aggressive repertoire. :)
Thanks Dinah.
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