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Here is the story of the DayTeller^TM and how it came about...

Like so many other people, my Mom had one of those plastic, weekly pill boxes with seven compartments and the appropriate day of the week indicated on the top of each. I would arrange the pills in the box during my weekly visit.

Several times I noticed she hadn't taken some of the pills, so I asked her why. She said she frequently wasn't sure which day of the week it was. "In this retirement life all the days seem the same and flow together," she said.

I went to stores looking for an automatic calendar or clock with a large, clear, simple display of the name of the day. All I could find was a few digital clocks with dinky little day abbreviations mixed in with a maze of other information, but I knew that wouldn't help Mom. I searched the web for several weeks. I checked calendar companies, clock companies, medical supply outlets, bank supply companies.....I looked everywhere with no results.

So I called associations dealing with health care, memory issues and the elderly. I described what I was looking for. Nearly every place I called said essentially the same thing..... "We've never seen anything like that but if you find one let us know. We'd like a lot of them!"

All I was trying to do was help Mom, but now, all of a sudden, I had stumbled into a serious want and need that was going unfulfilled. So, I personally designed what I, and apparently others, needed......The DayTeller^TM!

Now people all over the world can help their relatives or personally be grounded in the certainty of knowing what day it is. It helped my family and I am so pleased that now it is available to help yours.

And before you leave, check out another amazing discovery I've made to protect family members... The HeatTeller^TM.

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