During my diagnosis, a nurse told me that I needed to wear medical ID. Intrigued by the idea of creating a new jewelry product for myself and others, I asked her, “What do most patients tell you when you tell them about medical ID?” She replied, “Most of them don’t like to wear it. They either complain they don’t like what’s out there or they’re just not jewelry people.” So I began a quest to find the perfect type of medical identification for both types of people – those who don’t like wearing any jewelry and those, like me, who love jewelry but don’t want jewelry that brands them with a serious medical problem. As a jeweler, I couldn’t see myself wearing an unattractive piece of medical identification jewelry while I was behind the counter selling something beautiful to a customer.