Over at The Blue Heel Society we successfully participated in the 30 Day, 30 Posts National Health Blog Post challenge.
In response to being named one of the International Diabetes Federation World Diabetes Day Heroes, I wrote and published a blog post over at Insulet's Suite D site about us All Being Diabetes Heroes. If you have a moment take a look at it here:
The book by Dr. Beverly Adler, My Sweet Life: Successful Men With Diabetes, that I was so grateful to be asked to contributed a chapter to was published.
A team of 10 of us raced under the Blue Heel Society banner at an event called Rebel Race in Haverhill, MA. It was a 5k with 23 obstacles ranging from fire to barbed wire to 25 foot vertical walls. The event made a donation to a diabetes charity in the name of team. While there all of the team members met and spoke to a ton of people about diabetes. We will certainly be doing this, and other similar races, again! Look for a blog entry on Suite D shortly!
I was fortunate enough to be nominated for the 2012 WEGO Health Activist Hero Award. To be nominated and supported by members of the Diabetes Online Community is very humbling. I am SO grateful. Thank you!
In the middle of the month, I was asked to participate on a WEGO Roundtable discussion about Diabetes. It involved a few of us on a call-in basis, and a very active Twitter, radio, and online interactive audience. A summary of the discussion can be found here: http://blog.wegohealth.com/2012/11/14/roundtable-recap-diabetes-awareness-month/.
The Blue Heel Society launched its IRL (In Real Life) Luminary Campaign. The campaign provides free tools, aptly collected in The Shoebox, to people interested in leading advocacy campaigns in their local areas around the globe. The response has been overwhelming, and The Luminaries have already scheduled events starting now.
Along the same lines, The Blue Heel Society was also nominated by our friends in the DOC for the 2012 WEGO Health Best Ensemble Cast Award. All us involved with BHS where simply blown away by this honor.
From the bottom of our collective hearts, Thank You ALL for being a part of the most globally successful Diabetes Awareness Month ever!!
It is the hard work everyone of you do, the stories and experiences that each share, and the non-judgmental support and encouragement that we give each other that makes the DOC family so incredible.
Thank you.
Keep Choppin' everyone!!
