It took a family cruise for us to find out how sick he'd really been.
My wife and I took her parents on a cruise. A few days in, we realized her dad had been weak and in pain for two weeks before we even left — he just hadn't said anything. Neither of them wanted to bother any of their five daughters, so one night at 1 a.m., two people who struggled to drive got themselves to the emergency room alone. That was just the tip of the iceberg of the things we found out that were going on with them. All five daughters, and no one knew.
The day we got home, my wife and her sisters made a pact: get involved, take turns at appointments, put it on a rotation instead of leaving it to whoever happened to notice first.
What was missing wasn't love or willingness. It was one shared place for the medications, the appointments, and what a doctor actually said in the room. So, I built Tovela.
The next time her dad was hospitalized, all five daughters knew within minutes. Someone was already on the way, and everyone else could see exactly what was happening — without a single phone call interrupting the two people sitting at his bedside.
— Luis, who built Tovela for his wife's family, and hopes, soon, for yours too.