06/26/2025
So I have spent another “Day Off”, as I do every day off, answering texts, phone calls and messages about everything from “my dog has been very ill for weeks” to I need a refill of medication; that one coming from clients and Petmeds and Chewy alike.
No matter how many times a state this or complain or explain why, as another human being, I should not have to work every minute of every day, and then even that is not enough and people try to brow beat me into seeing them.
Here are some simple facts:
1) I exist in the same time/space reality as everyone else and am subject to the same physical laws of nature: therefore I do not have extra hours in my days, still the same 23.92 hours as the rest of you.
2) I am also subject to the functions of nature such as eating, waste removal and sleeping. I have functioned for decades, that’s right over 3 decades, on less than 5 hours sleep most nights. But that’s still not good enough.
3) Just in the past 6 weeks I have had 6 technician changes if you account for my daughter working for me for 5 days and my son for 3 days. And having to train all the new assistants. It’s exhausting!
4) My hospital has had several mechanical issues which I have had to take to deal with as well.
5) on top of all this my wife’s public health dental job has been in turmoil due to all the bu****it political theater and nonsense surrounding healthcare and basic science.
6) More complaints also about prices going up, even if slightly during this time.
Mind you I have not had a price increase in my visit cost in over 4 years!
So I’m going to make this abundantly clear even for those who are repeat offenders, have no care in the world for my or my family’s well being, or who think I can keep up this pace for another 20 years; I CANNOT AND WILL NOT!
If I am barraged by any of this nonsense after hours, 6,7,10,11 PM texts at 2 AM or repeated texts or calls in a couple hours span, those clients will not be responded to, period. And they will be removed from my list of regular clients.
I’m tired of having to repeatedly post about this because it usually falls on deaf ears for most of the masses. But I really have no other recourse and I definitely have Zero time in my day to see a therapist.
Good luck and I hope some pay attention.
PS: This ate up 15 min of valuable time I needed to call clients for appointments