Friday, December 29, 2017

What was the most viewed post of 2017

This cold weather has induced a Winter brain freeze. I've been working on a post about old school trauma blankets, but  trouble with writer's block has slowed me down-if you could even call my foolishness writing!

I have zero insight about which of my posts are popular with readers. Sometimes my idea of a good post only comes up with a hundred views or less. Subjects that seem on the lame end of the spectrum end up with a thousand or more views. "Go figure," as I've heard youngsters exclaim when something doesn't make sense.

Drum roll...please. My  most viewed post of 2017 was this gem with about 2,200 views.
http://oldfoolrn.blogspot.com/2017/01/not-on-my-back-table.html  (Caution contains disturbing image.)  I did not have the appropriate insight and judgment when publishing this little gem to add the disturbing content disclaimer and this got me blacklisted on some referral sites. My bad (another expression I learned from you  clever youngsters,) and a thousand pardons for my crude behavior. I will try to contain my inherent barbarity in the future.

Wishing you the best New Year yet!

16 comments:

  1. Wishing you the happiest of the New Year, OF ~

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  2. Please post MORE disturbing images, crude behavior, and barbarity in 2018. Thank you.

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  3. Got to have clickbait to get views, unfortunately. Maybe not that clickbait though...haha. People are strange, I recently opened a little Etsy store, and I'm thrilled that I'm getting sales, but what I think will sell sits there, and other sales surprise me. No accounting for the behavior of humans.

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  4. Thanks for your New Years Greetings. Every year that I'm still vertical is a good one for me. Officer Cynical, encouraging bad behaviors in an Old Fool RN with poor judgment like me is like pouring gasoline on a fire. I'm hoping you have a wonderful 2018!

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  5. You pull no punches OFRN - that was some blog post and I learned a few things from reading it too!
    Great stuff, keep up the good work. And a very Happy New Year to you as well. I am sweltering in heatwave conditions here in Oz and they keep showing me all that snow in the US of A on television just to taunt me I swear! Cheers from Sue

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  6. Thanks Sue, the wind chill here is way below zero and I could use a warm up in the land of Oz. It must be warm there-I remember how the Wicked Witch of the West melted away in that old classic movie. It scarred me for life! All the best to you.

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    1. Oops I posted the exact same foolishness twice. Blame it on the cold

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    2. And I just noticed I did a typo again in my previous post - oh dear I need new glasses!

      I lived in a part of Australia that got snowy winters but now I'm in the coastal sub-tropics on the east coast - you are welcome to some palm trees and golden beaches - but the humidity is a shocker!

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  8. If you are in Chicago OFRN they just showed that city on our national television news. Now THAT is some serious cold you have over there! Sue (forgot to put my name on the above comment too sorry!)

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  9. And I meant to say the Wicked Witch of the West scared the daylights out of me too - talk about traumatising small children! Stay warm, cheers from Sue

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  10. I'm actually in Pittsburgh, Sue but it's very cold here too. I lived in Chicago for the first part of my long life. The most cold place that I ever lived was Cedar Rapids, Iowa in an old home that had a converted coal furnace. That was some serious cold.

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  11. I know the name Cedar Rapids from reading Bridges of Madison County - which is why I know of Des Moines in Iowa too. I didn't know it got that cold there! I have been enjoying reading some of your older posts - loved the one about bed making, our tutor sister used a set square to check our mitred corners were at an exact angle of 45 degrees. I kept failing all the time.. and had to take the bed apart and make it again... and again. Now they use fitted sheets! Why did I bother.. Cheers, Sue

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  12. Old school nurses spent hours on bed making activities and any minor deviation from protocol was a capital crime. I once made an operative bed and meticulously folded the sheets but they were 180 degrees off. Miss Bruiser, my favorite instructor had me on the bed scrubbing detail for weeks.

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  13. When I was in my first week as a student nurse, in a moment of panic I didn't take a patient's pulse correctly. My punishment was to take TPRs and BPs on all thirty patients on the ward - 15 up and 15 down - in a neurosurgery ward where they were all really sick and I felt awful for disturbing some of them... I never made that mistake again.

    I doubt the young whippersnappers today would put up with that kind of thing, but we didn't say boo back then did we... (Sue)

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  14. Back when I was a whippersnappern, I didn't say boo, but as an Oldfoolrn, I'm making up for lost time!

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