Daily Dosage --- ANABOX Pillbox

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I have to take a pill every day because my heart does something it shouldn’t do. When I saw the colourful and sturdy pill organisers from ANABOX on the counter of a pharmacy, I knew that that was what I should have. There are three different types available: The ANABOX Daily Box which is meant to keep pills for one single day for patients who have to take several pills at different times and perhaps not always the same number. This was also the first box which German pharmacist Dr. Bertram Fritzsch invented in collaboration with a medical practitioner. Next they thought of ANABOX 7 Days. The same idea, but here seven daily boxes are fixed together so that a full week's supply of medication can be stored. What I need is the ANABOX 1x7. It has seven compartments and provides one week's supply of pills which you take once a day. It's advertised for 'businessmen and users that are travelling a lot'. I am not but find it also convenient. The ANABOX 1x7 is available in bright, clear colours, namely blue, green, red and yellow. They all look good. It's 13.5 cm long, 5 cm wide and 2 cm high. The shape is ergonomic, that means that there are no rough edges. The bottom is white, the covers are coloured. The firm producing ANABOX maintain on their homepage that the plastic is of highest quality. The individual compartments have the first two letters of the names of the days written in clear white script on them (the English variety has the first three letters). They're tightly closed. I thought a bit less tight would be a good idea when I tried to pry them open. This was before I read in the instruction leaflet that I have to press the middle of the slightly convex cover when I want to open a compartment to take out the pills. The covers are so tight to prevent the pills from falling out unintentionally. An information I hadn't expected is that the ANABOXes are dishwasher-proof. Why would I want to wash a container of pills at all, in the dishwasher or by hand? Well, maybe if I accidentally smear jam or honey onto or into it which can happen, of course, given that it lies on my breakfast table. I know that many people don't give a monkey's for background information on a product. I like to have some, though, and also to share it. The first part of the name ANABOX is taken from the place name Annaberg-Buchholz. This is a small town of ~21.000 inhabitants in the south-eastern corner of Germany, in the former GDR (German Democratic Republic). It's about 25 km from the border with the Czech Republic. Economically, it's dead trousers there (as the Germans say), i.e., nothing's stirring. Jobs are rare, lots of people have left the area and migrated to the West. It makes me happy to read about a successful business. The ANABOXes are sold in 20 countries. You can find ANABOX on amazon.