School is starting, temperatures are just starting to wind down in some places (not here!), and for many of you the anticipation of fall is creeping in. For some things start to calm down from the eventful summer, and for others the long lazy summer days are over as school kicks into gear. It may seem from the outside that we’ve been a little quite around here lately, but in fact it has been quite the opposite, and we have lots more to come! (Including, *gasp,* a giveaway! More info below)
So what exactly have we been up to? Well, one of the most exciting things that happened recently was the design and receipt of a new little card, pictured to the left. These cards have been in the works for a number of months now and we are super excited to finally have them. The front of these cards, as you can see, just gives a short and simple explanation of what our tubie clips are and how to use them. (If you don’t know what our tube clips are, we encourage you to check them out!) The back gives a quick explanation about how to open and close the clips in both the plastic and metal styles.
Wondering why something so small has us so excited? Well, if you recently ordered a tubie clip for the first time you might have already received one of these, and certainly part of their purpose is to help first time clip users fall in love as much as we have without any hiccups when it comes to things like figuring out how to open and close their clips. But their bigger purpose is actually to allow us to donate tubie clips, which is what we’ve been so excited about! You see, because our tubie clips are entirely unique to us, it’s a bit tougher to just hand them out and expect someone to know what it is and how to use it. Now, problem solved! And we’ve already put them to use in donations: we recently dropped off two baskets of tubie clips and pads in the GI (gastroenterology) and IR (interventional radiology) departments of Texas Children’s Hospital (our local pediatric hospital), as well as in two recent donation packages which you can see below!
These are pictures of two different donation packages we were able to send off earlier this month and, for the first time, each contains 8 tubie clips as well as 15 tubie pads, 2 masks, and a tubie or central line bear. The first (left) package was sent out to a non profit called Love Packages run by a teen who sends out care packages to children and teens with life altering illnesses. The second (right) headed off to a little organization called Boxes of Hope and Joy that sends out care packages to kids ages 10-17 who have chronic illnesses. As always, these are awesome organizations and we encourage you to find out how you can get involved and help them out too! If you ever need help contacting them or want help finding more organizations to donate items to you can feel free to contact us and we will be more than happy to help you out.
Now that we’ve covered the highlights of this past month, we’re sure you’re dying to hear about the giveaway we hinted at earlier! Well today is not the day we announce the details, but we did want to give you a heads up because it will be EPIC and we don’t want you to miss out! So watch for a new post here tomorrow, September 1st that will contain all the info you need to enter. There will be multiple ways to enter here, on Facebook, and more so you might see some posts pop up elsewhere with directions to enter on those sites but the post here will contain all the info you need and the complete list of ways to enter. Also we do want to take a moment to point something out-you won’t need to have a feeding tube or any kind of medical device to enter! You’ll get more details tomorrow on the prize but we want to make that clear from the start so you don’t miss out just because you think you have to be a tubie to participate. Also, the giveaway will run the entire month of September, so no need to be left out if you have a crazy day tomorrow and, say, chase Pokeman until 1 am. 😉 Just kidding, but this is a stress-free super fun giveaway that you won’t want to miss!
Until tomorrow,
~Tickle Me Tubies
