happy anniversary, thanks congress, fb, mri

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY
today is the first anniversary of this blog
it was started one saturday afternoon after my wife she
watched a show on public tv about a women who started
blogging about her life as she was going through a bad time
in her life
her blog caught on and she has now over a million followers

i told my wife she that i had always wanted to do that
so i did my first blog that day
i originally wanted to do it on organic living, green living, medical
topics, life as a family doctor, and other things

little did i know things would change in a few months when i
added alzheimers disease to the list and did less on life as a
family doctor

i have had almost 50000 viewings of my blog in the first year
my most popular blogs have been about my story from last winter
and my most recent posting on the three part blog of my story
final answer

80% of my viewers are from the usa with 20% from foreign
countries with russia, england, germany, and japan as the most
visited from nations

thanks to you the readers of this blog for taking time to read it
at times i find this blog therapeutic to write and always enjoyable to
write

i hope to make you smile each day but also to educate you on
things in this blog

thanks again

THANKS CONGRESS
i also would like to thank congress for getting us into this big
mess that we are in now
we have been downgraded to aa from aaa by s & p
guess our fica scores dropped down also

from fb posting i found this entry if pro and con are opposites
then the opposite of progress is congress

this says it all

whats scary is that we are in much better shape than most
countries and that other countries are buying our bonds even
though they are barely paid any interest because they feel that
their money is safer here in the us than other countries

if they dont do something about this mess i plan to vote against
all incumbents in the next election-thatll show them huh

FB
am so ready for football
went to the cowboy camp on saturday
they didnt look very good
hope things get better
it was nice and cool in the alamodome though

exhibition games start this week
cant wait

MRI
have an mri of the brain today as part of the adni study
during the 5 years of this study i will have 4 of these done

this mri especially looks at the volume of the hippocampus
the hippocampus is on the undersurface of the brain and is
where short term memory occurs
changes in its size occurs in early alzheimers

the organicgreen doctor

blog history

BLOG HISTORY

this is how this blog got started 6 months ago 

my wife she recorded(ie dvred it) a pbs interview with this lady who
had started a blog 9 years ago when she was going through some 

bad times

over time it grew to over a million readers and is one of the 

most successful inidividual blogs 

my wife she always heard me say that i wanted to do a blog 

since i have a variety of interests-am a family phyiscian, like 

organic gardening, am interested in green living, have solar power,

have a rain water harvesting system, recycle everything(including 

plan to recycle myself when i die-brain to alzheimers reseach
center and if healthy when i die any organs that are needed), green

living, mixed in with a funny wit that those who were my patients

have noted before-thought that when this was put all together then
i could put together a blog that could interest people with different
interests

so i watched the pbs show  and said i want to do it
so i sat down and set up this blog that afternoon in a few hours
using googles blogspot
i later purchased my website address 

if you go to my first blog on august 7, 2010 you can read my 

first blog

little did i know that a genetic bug was working inside my brain 

that showed up in november and december that changed my life 

and slightly altered the direction of the blog to include more on 

alzheimers with the goal over time to educate people about the

diesease as everyone i mean everyone that reads this blog will 

be affected by alzheimers in their lifetime in a family member,
a friend, or a fellow employee or if real unlucky yourself

at the same time i wanted to retain the other emphasis of this
blog on the original topics but of course could not discuss the
day to day life of a family physician anymore as i medically retired

you will notice that there is something about alzheimers every day
in this blog but it is not always the main topic

i also had decided when i was diagnosed with mild cognitive 

impairment that i would not hide the fact that that was what i had 

but wanted everyone to know and would use this as a vehicle to 

educate you about the alzheimers disease process

also as i started medcation, did diagnostic testing, saw the
doctors, i wanted to let people know what i was feeling and how
this disease was affecting me and my family 

hopefully over time i can continue to do this

the blog continues to cover the other things also that i wanted to
write about including being a doctor as i can write about past
experiences and about medical topics that appear to be important
like cancer screenings and the black snake stories

this blog today will be the 178th one
the first month i did the blog it got 825 views in august
this month the blog has 6432 views so far
the blogs total views so far are 13,161
if this rate continues it will be having over 60,000 views
a year

the list of the top 9 countries that viewers come from in order
of the highest readership to lowest is united states, japan, canada,
united kingdom,luxemburg, nicaragua (relatives vacation there
a lot), germany, israel, and united arab emigrates

the three states with the most viewers are texas, arkansas, and
california (you can tell what states ive lived in now)

readers come into the blog (listed in their order of highest to lowest)
via directly, facebook, twitter, google, alzheimers association, and
other blogs and other sources

now this blog is  appearing in google searches for things that
are written about
eg cedar fever 2011 elicits a first page google listing for this blog
that means that the blog is being successful

the blog is only successful becuase you the readers are reading it
and are returning

for this i would like to thank you for helping make this successful
so far

the organicgreen doctor