Yesterday I posted about the Diabetes Research Institute’s Be Part of the Cure campaign during the month of November and December. I also mentioned that there are multiple programs and campaigns all going on at the same time, and this is great because there is a large movement for diabetes going on and I love it.
Today I am going to discuss the campaign from Manny and the Diabetes Hand Foundation. This project also started yesterday and runs until November 14, 2010. Manny has described two parts of the event. The first part is helping spread the word because without all of us getting the word out, it’s just not going to work. On November 14, you are urged to participate to test your blood sugar, exercise for 14 minutes and then test again and share your results with the diabetes community or Twitter.
How can you help spread the word? Easily. E-mail everybody you know and ask them to watch the video and spread it along. The video can be viewed at the Big Blue Test website. If you are going to tweet about this project, the official hashtag is #bigbluetest. Pleas visit the BigBlueTest website for more information and more details on this great event.
Now, why do I think this campaign is important also? That is a no brainer. This creates an opportunity for all of us to test our blood sugar and share our experiences with each other. There are many benefits to this, with one being that some people may not normally test before and after exercise and you may figure something out that you didn’t know about the patterns of your blood sugars. The viral aspect of this is also going to help spread more information about diabetes and creating an awareness amongst non-diabetics of what we go through on a daily basis. Only two days in to November and it’s busy, busy, busy.