WBZ 1030’s Carl Stevens interviews TomTom US President Jocelyn Vigreux and homecare nurse Mary Danforth

Homecare nurses have it tough. Patients who need daily care can’t wait for the rain to stop. Necessary medications can’t wait for the floodwaters to recede. And insulin shots won’t open a closed road.

The Massachusetts flooding of May 2006 shut down four bridges and closed local roads in homecare nurse Mary Danforth’s North Shore territory. The unexpectedly intense flooding that week closed some of her usual routes. Driving down unfamiliar roads in the dangerous conditions, Mary needed options because her patients needed her. Faced with the challenge, Mary Danforth was spotted in her Ford Escort, stopped on the shoulder, poring over maps, trying to find her way around closed roads that seemed to change hour to hour.

Braving rushing waters and driving rain, Mary made her home calls, her patients got their care, and she got more than a little soaked. On June 30, 2006, TomTom presented Mary Danforth with a TomTom GO700. Now she will have a friendly voice guiding her safely to her patients, to whom she is most devoted. Mary Danforth was doing her job when she braved the driving rains, but she did it with uncommon courage and devotion.

Thanks to Mary Danforth and homecare nurses just like her, homebound patients can rely on the health care they need in the most trying of conditions.

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