7-year-old boy with type 1 diabetes owes his life to well-trained service dog
 

7-year-old boy with type 1 diabetes owes his life to well-trained service dog
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Service dogs save lives every day. Just ask 7-year-old Luke, whose service pup, Jedi, used his training to alert Luke's family when danger struck.

Luke, who has type 1 diabetes, has a glucose monitoring system that keeps track of his blood sugar levels, and his family keeps watch in case they become dangerously low.*

But as Luke and his mother slept last week, Luke's blood sugar started to dip — and Jedi was quick to take action.

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"Jedi jumped off the bed, then back on again. Though I felt him do this, I didn't wake up," Luke's mother, Dorrie, wrote in a Facebook post. "Then Jedi laid on me. I woke up." Read more...


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