Thursday, January 27, 2011

Why the Epi-Watch?

One of our team members has food allergies.  He has had them since he was a baby.  He has to be careful what he eats and what his friends eat around him.  Sometimes he has allergy attacks when someone who has touched certain foods then touch him.  It has been hard at times, but he deals with it.  One of the things he has to do is carry an EpiPen, just in case he has a bad reaction to something.  The problem is that it is easy to forget or misplace--

At school he keeps a couple EpiPens in the nurse's office.  When there is a field trip he has to take one with him.  When he plays sports or competes in robotics, he has to take an EpiPen with him.  He is a Boy Scout and goes camping frequently -- with his EpiPens.  The EpiPen doesn't really fit in his pocket - and he has been known to set it down somewhere and lose it.  If he loses it and he has an allergy problem, it could be deadly.  Especially when he is camping or somewhere far from help.

However, he does love wearing a watch.  He almost never takes it off.  He wears it so often that he forgets he even has it on.  When he does take it off, he feels like he is missing something.  So - he thought, why not find a way to combine the two.  Wouldn't it be nice if he could just wear his EpiPen like his watch -- and always have it with him.  He wouldn't have to worry about remembering to bring it.  He wouldn't have to find a place to keep it.  He wouldn't have to hunt all over looking for it after he set it down somewhere.  He could even forget about it and still have it.

And thus the Epi-Watch was born . . .

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