It’s time for the Big Blue Test!

Posted on November 11, 2014 by Tim

What is the Big Blue test? Let me tell you a little about a very important event for the diabetes community as a whole.

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My good friends at the Diabetes Hands Foundation started the Big Blue Test a few years back as a way to raise money. The Big Blue Test grants awarded this year will benefit two US-based initiatives (each will receive US$10,000) and an additional US$15,000 will support a project in the Dominican Republic.

 

Here’s a outline of what the Big Blue Test is:

The Big Blue Test is a program of the Diabetes Hands Foundation that rallies communities to experience the impact that small changes can have on their health. Taking the Big Blue Test is easy: See their site for details.

Since 2010, over 40,000 people helped themselves while helping more than 10,000 others. Most participants in the Big Blue Test experience an average blood sugar drop of 20%. Each Big Blue Test helps you and helps others, through a life-saving donation made on your behalf. This has translated in $250,000 awarded by Diabetes Hands Foundation in Big Blue Test grants in the past 4 years.  (some portions of this were copied from the Diabetes Hands Foundations Website)

 

Please help out this cause, as many times as you can. Post pictures online if you want, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook or your favorite social media, just hashtag #bigbluetest. Thank you so much for the help and taking time to stop by my little blog.

 

Godspeed

Tim

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Hello my old friends:

Posted on September 16, 2014 by Tim

Hello everyone, I’m working away to get this blog up and running again. In the next few weeks it should be done and the blog address will once again be bleedingfinger.com. I’ll post a summer recap and what I’ve been up to this summer. A lot has gone on, too much to tell you in a short post like this.

Life is fun, but busy right now having 4 kids and 2 with Type 1 Diabetes. Having a baby boy is fun, but lots of work. He’s 8 months now and likes to take my hats and chew on them. Its funny, but I have to wash them because they get soaked with drool. Yes, you just laughed at me, but that’s okay.

I wrote an article for Insulin Nation  on the Friends For Life Conference, put on by the Children With Diabetes website. It was a fun filled week; I would encourage everyone to go, there’s more than one to attend, so check out their site for times and locations.

Life is fun, summer was fun, despite having 2 girls with Type 1 Diabetes. Life is good even with going through one of the roughest times in my life this summer, life is still good. So glad to be able to connect with my readers again, old and new. I hope you’re all doing well. See you soon my friends.

yours truly

Tim

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