/**
  * Counts all deleeted and undeleted items
  * @param array $query_params like EEM_Base::get_all
  * @param string $field_to_count
  * @param bool 	 $distinct if we want to only count the distinct values for the column then you can trigger that by the setting $distinct to TRUE;
  * @return int
  */
 public function count_deleted_and_undeleted($query_params = null, $field_to_count = null, $distinct = FALSE)
 {
     $query_params = $this->_alter_query_params_so_deleted_and_undeleted_items_included($query_params);
     return parent::count($query_params, $field_to_count, $distinct);
 }