Crunchy numbers

The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:

The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow.

A helper monkey made this abstract painting, inspired by your stats.

A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 7,000 times in 2010. That’s about 17 full 747s.

In 2010, there were 9 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 148 posts.

The busiest day of the year was January 19th with 243 views. The most popular post that day was Shame on our shameful language!.

Where did they come from?

The top referring sites in 2010 were facebook.com, en.wordpress.com, tips-tools-tutorials.com, mail.live.com, and google.ca.

Some visitors came searching, mostly for save our nurse, saveournurse.ca, save our nurse practitioner, saveournurse, and karen snider nurse.

Attractions in 2010

These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.

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Shame on our shameful language! January 2010
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About October 2009
6 comments

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Three months since Karen was sacked January 2010
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Blog news January 2010
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From the Chronicle Herald today January 2010
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South West Health is hosting a public meeting in Digby next Thursday to talk about its commitment to keep emergency departments open 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

From today’s Chronicle Herald

Annapolis ER closure feared
Woman: Health authority to hold public meetings to discuss shutdown
By GORDON DELANEY and JOHN McPHEE Staff Reporters
Wed. Feb 3 – 4:53 AM

Some Annapolis County residents are expressing concerns over the possible closure of the emergency room at the Annapolis Community Health Centre in Annapolis Royal.

“Health care is threatened in Annapolis Royal,” Sharon Cranton of Bridgetown wrote Tuesday in an email to The Chronicle Herald.

This note was just posted on Facebook by Jon Gray of Annapolis Royal.  Obviously closing the emergency room in Annapolis Royal could have a major impact on the health care of people in the Digby area as well.

Andy

Health care is threatened in Annapolis Royal. The regional health authority is considering closing the emergency room services at the Annapolis Community Health Centre. This means there could be no reliable emergency room service between Middleton and Yarmouth.

I’ve had some correspondence with the woman who wrote the article below.  She came across our blog, and asked if she could make a submission.  She manages a website called Online Nurse Practitioner Schools. 

Andy

Being a Nurse Practitioner on an Island

A nurse is sometimes more important than a doctor, because while a doctor is able to diagnose the patient and prescribe medication, it is the nurse who provides the personalized care that is so important to hastening the recovery of anyone who is ill. Nurse practitioners are extra special because they are almost like doctors in some situations.

 

Sorry I didn’t get this posted earlier…Andy

Bring Snider back

Will the health minister please explain why she is wasting taxpayers’ money on interim and sporadic health care for the people of Digby Neck and Islands?

Hi folks.  I’m going to be away for awhile.  My mother is going to have experimental heart surgery at the Mayo Clinic.  I will check in when possible to see if there are any new items to be posted. 

Andy

Dave and Judy Teed received the following email from the department of health.  Heather Prime received one too.  I guess our passionate language offended the urban sensibilities of some of our government bureaucrats and censors.  So in future, don’t say bullshit in your letters…even if that’s what you’re describing.  Andy  (Dave and Judy’s original highly offensive letter is reprinted below)

 

From: Jennifer Dell

Date: 18/01/2010 12:27:08 PM

Subject: Fwd: Re: Nurse Practitioner Petition M2322

 

January 18, 2010

 

Dave and Judy Teed

 

Dear Mr. and Mrs. Teed:

 

I am in receipt of your e-mail dated December 10, 2009, sent to the

Honourable Maureen MacDonald, Minister of Health, regarding the Nurse

Practitioner position in the Digby Neck area.

 

I would like to note that this specific piece of correspondence sent to

the Minister will not be answered, as it contains offensive language.

Medical personnel filling in at Digby Neck health centre

Starting Monday through to the end of February, the Islands Health Centre will be open 27 of a possible 30 days, says SouthWest Heath.

On more than half of those days, a doctor will be in the clinic working with a nurse practitioner and each will see patients, stated a news release.

Health Minister Maureen MacDonald told us it would be a priority of her department, and the District Health Authority, to get us a new nurse practitioner.  Three months have gone by since they fired Karen Snider, the nurse practitioner we all fought so hard to keep.  Obviously the DHA and the Minister of Health had no idea what they were talking about when they said they would replace Karen.