This morning I reposted a piece from 2017, A Lesson Learned, about my first case of Anaplasmosis, as a link in a new post about this disease and Lyme disease today according to the Maine CDC’s most recent report. I made reference to the fact that I had just posted the 2017 piece on my Substack, which I made my primary blog when WordPress no longer supported the theme (template) I have used here since I started this blog in 2008. Within a month or two of my migration, my old theme here started working again, but then I was already enamored with my growing viewer numbers on Substack.
I have found that Substack is a more immediate medium than my WordPress blog. If I go a couple of days without posting anything, almost nobody visits my Substack, whereas on WordPress, there’s always a trickle of people reading both the latest and prior posts. So even though I have half-neglected my WordPress blog, many of its readers have remained loyal, quickly reading my less frequent posts on this platform.
The lesson I have learned is not to put all my eggs in one basket. Some people have commented that they don’t like Substack and will only follow me here on WordPress. Therefore, I will put new material here when I put it on Substack and if I repost something old from here on Substack, I will only put it here if I have something new to say about that topic or perhaps the back story to that piece. In a way, this platform will be for my old friends who may have followed me since the beginning or at least longer than I have been on Substack.
If you are one of my old friends, I thank you for your patience while I figured this out and learned my lesson.
A Country Doctor Writes: 
I appreciate that.