I am happy to provide the following account of why buying a FRED is money well spent.

"We have been telling our friends how grateful we are to have had a FRED hanging alongside my dad's bed when he collapsed because of a blood clot on his lung.

We originally bought the FRED because my dad is paralyzed on his left side and we were afraid he wouldn't be able to call for help if Mom happened to fall or suddenly become sick.

Last week as Mom was putting him into bed he fell backwards, unconscious, across the bed.

Because the FRED was there she was able to reach up to push the panic button and talk to the 911 operator through its intercom all the while holding up his head and keeping him from falling out of bed. (Dad weighs about 260 pounds and Mom is a little grey haired lady so she couldn't have gotten him straightened away and then gone to call 911.)

We had already bought a second panic button - which operates off of the same FRED - and hung it on his wheelchair, but now, knowing what a life saver it is and since the cost of an additional panic button is only about $27, we will probably put one in every room."

Joy Eberhard