Re: Need help on blog

On Aug 30, 1:07 am, Sean C <redh...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In article <1188431713.114258.22...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,



Legend <livin...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Aug 29, 6:31 pm, Sean C <redh...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi everyone,

I am wondering if anybody has any advice on how to promote your blog. I
have recently written a few articles for my blog but this blog is
probably never going to amount to much unless more people discover it
and hopefully send in some articles to publish. I've added those little
bookmark thingies that are supposed to help people bookmark or
recommend your site and thus promote traffic, but you have to get the
traffic first before anybody will use those things. Any advice you can
give me to help increase traffice would be appreciated. I am hoping
with more trafic, there may be more people interested in submitting
articles to the blog.

What do people think of my posting a note or two about any new articles
on the blog here on the group, with a link to the article on the
wesbite? I would prefer to just post articles whole here, but the
articles use html coding and I would have to make another version to
post them here. While this is what is normally done for most articles,
I am not sure if is taboo to post your own stuff this way, becasue it
would involve linking to the site to see the article.

Anyway, I'd like people to read my article about macho doctors, and
hear your thoughts on the matter. There are some comments in the
comments section from a doctor I used as an example of the breed that I
think you'll find very interesting, and I would aprreciate you offering
some feedback or making coments of your own. You might want to visit
that doctor's site as well as he has some pretty choice comments about
people in pain, some of which I included in the article.

http://paynehertz.blogspot.com/2007/08/macho-macho-man.html

--Sean C

Sean,

You're doing a great job! I'm sorry I haven't had the time or energy
to write anything new,or comment much, but I've definitely been
appreciating it. The fact that you can keep up a dialog with a doctor
you criticize, yet not alienate him, speaks volumes.

Thanks, Legend. In truth, I think I rather pissed him off :) Aside from
his nasty comments on the blog he went and wrote an article about
drug-seekers on his blog basically backtracking from his more
inflammatory remarks and now admits to only committing the crime of
blacklisting patients where there is clear evidence of drug-seeking.

I see no reason why you shouldn't post links here. it's supposed to
be our blog-I know, you're doing almost all of the work, But, you
wouldn't hesitate to post thoughts like that here, would you? (Hope
not) so, please post a link-or copy the whole thing-whenever you
think it'll help.

But, we should really be there-I'll probably post an answer, when I
get more time to think. I hope the others do, too.

Don't sweat it. I'm not trying to guilt trip anyone. I was mainly
wondering if anybody knew about promoting blogs and was also curious to
see people's reaction to that particular article. The reason I am
asking this is I guess my own insecurities lead me to wonder if that
doctor will just turn around and vent his anger over that piece on
somebody with chronic pain. At the same time, we can't just be silent
about these things, or refuse to confront these guys. I have a lot of
anger at the way people with pain are treated so my writing tends to be
rather inflammatory, which is why I thought it might be nice to have an
editor to tone it down a bit. But it is not really my goal with this
blog to try and convince doctors, but to convince people with pain that
we really need to get organized and fight for change becasue the system
we face is really screwed up and getting worse.

As for posting comments I have trouble thinking straight or writing
when I am in pain and I would contribute more to this group were it
otherwise, so I understand. I am not expecting this thing to have
hundreds of articles and 10,000 readers overnight. I find it relatively
easy to write here and express myself, as for the most part this is a
very welcoming group and people here are very understanding.

--Sean C

Yeah, I know. I think that I'm 'blacklisted' at my local hospital.
The doctors don't even want to know that you know anything! When my
aunt was in the hospital, dying, I mentioned to the doc that she was
rather opiate-naive...so, if it was a matter of pain, she could
probably be kept comfortable for a long time. He just answered that
if that were the case, he'd better not give them to her, she couldn't
take it. She was 91 years old! However, she failed quite quickly
after that,and was gone the next day. But, somehow they kept her out
of pain. I kind of wish we had brought her home earlier, so she could
go in her sleep, I had no illusions-in fact, neither did she, in fact
she wanted, in her own words, to 'die at home'. It is scary in the
hospital-more so, I imagine, when you're older and sometimes get
disoriented. I could go on about the nursing home care she got, etc.,
but that's off-topic, and I;ve really just gotten over the whole
mourning period. Plus, I'd never stop!

But no-knowing about medicines is a 'red flag'. I know one of those
doctors you posted a link to...he was actually teasing a woman who'd
been in an accident, about which medicines had helped. She probably
didn't want to say 'Percocet', I think, because she'd be marked as an
addict for asking for something like that! It was a 'damned if you
do, damned if you don't' situation. If she said what she needed, she
knew too much. If she didn't, but said what she couldn't take, he'd
do everything possible to give her the mildest medicine he could.
You're a junke-until proven otherwise. That's the only way I can
describe it.

But-getting back to the blog-do you think I should post a link on the
DPA message board? It used to be quite popular-until it was
reformatted. (Its old format also had a lot of my better writings on
pain control and the law-as well as drugs in general). Now, it seems,
people are intimidated by too many categories, and which one to post
to! But,it's by no mens deserted, and they now have a separate
category for 'pain management', People who post there may like the
option of reading the blog, too and giving comments.. Just a warning-
you get some questions, like a woman who asked how she could make sure
her husband who had been in a serious accident, and was now taking
prescribed pain pills, didn't get addicted. But then, we'd have an
opportunity to educate.

In fact, you link to them. so, this wouldn't be a formal endorsement
from them-but, they always allow people who post to their message
board to leave links-and they don't remove them, unless they link to
spam or porn sites. They even leave a space, in the registered users
page, for home sites.

There are a few other message boards I post to, or at least read, but
I don't know their policies on posting links. I'll check them out.
Unless you see a problem, I think that could get us a lot more
readers. You've tapped on something that usually isn't addressed-
doctor's attitudes, and how they affect the general quality of
treatment for pain patients. But I;m sure there are people who want
to talk about this. Your articles on this subject could help give
voice to a whole new subject-that other groups (particularly Yahoo
groups) don;t even want to deal with, for fear that anything that
questions the medical and political establishment is too close to
'addiction'. I couldn't even speak about having been in jail-as that
was 'proof' of addiction.

Well, I'd better stop ranting. But, the blog could be a place for
people who have all kinds of pain issues to express themselves. They
maybe more receptive to it, than to this NG, needing the structure and
focus, at least at first.


-Legend




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