"ICE-husband-Floyd."

Program ICE into your cell phone: In Case of Emergency, so first responders will know whom to call if you are incapacitated. Go a step farther and add some personalization to the number, and emergency personnel will know how the other person is connected to you. It's simple to do. Just create a new contact with the initials ICE in front of a descriptor with a name such as ICE-husband-Floyd and then program the number. You could even program more than one, such as ICE-office, or ICE-personaldoc-Smith. 

Use hyphens to connect ICE-firstword-lastword to force the directory to keep the whole string as one word, rather than inverting it as the directory would normally do in a lastname, firstname format. 

Many cell phones also have 911 programed as a one touch dial. If yours doesn't, now would be a good time to add that to your quick dial buttons.

My husband had a stroke several years ago while at work. Two co-workers took him to the hospital, but neither of them even knew my name, much less how to contact me quickly. Fortunately, it was a mild stroke, and my husband was able to give my contact information to the medical staff. 

My children, husband, and I now all have ICE programmed into our cell phones.

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