While his parents slept, a 7-year-old boy's life was saved by Jedi, his diabetes-sniffing dog

[HuckleB]

http://www.tampabay.com/news/health/while-his-parents-slept-a-7-year-old-boys-life-was-saved-by-jedi-his/2268662

"It was the middle of the night. The lights were off, the house was still, the six members of the Nuttall family were sound asleep. The machinery that monitors the blood sugar levels of 7-year-old Luke Nuttall, who suffers from dangerous type 1 diabetes, was utterly quiet.

But Jedi, Luke's diabetes-sniffing dog, was not.

The black lab jumped on and off of the bed Luke shared with his parents, thumping onto the mattress in an attempt wake the slumbering adults. When that didn't work, he lay on top of Dorrie Nuttall, startling her out of sleep.

She clambered out of bed and examined her son's continuous glucose monitor, but its reading was normal. Still, the dog was unrelenting. He bowed again and again, repeating the signal he'd been trained to send if he sense that Luke's blood sugar had gotten too low.

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[redwitch]

1. That's amazing!

No need to ask "who's a good dog? here!

[HuckleB]

4. Absolutely!

[LonePirate]

2. Another wonderful dog story. Thank you for posting it.

[HuckleB]

6. You're most welcome!

[yourout]

3. Dogs are incredible creatures. Really miss our lab we had to say goodbye to in December.

[HuckleB]

9. My sincere condolences.

I know how hard it can be... We lost our nearly 15-year-old lab mutt ten years ago, right before our first child was born. She had been our pal for all those years, and even continued to backpack with us the summer before she passed. I never knew it would be that hard to lose her.

[Duppers]

18. My sincerest sympathy.

Labs are not only intelligent, they're soulful. We have our second one who's now a 10mo sweetheart.

[IDemo]

5. Our old dog periodically awoke me when I was getting too low

The assumption was she detected a change in my breathing pattern. None of our current dogs have done this, although I've also had a much lower number of these events in recent years.

[HuckleB]

13. I'm sure dogs are better at various skills, much like humans.

Thanks for sharing the story!

[mopinko]

7. my bulldog sniffs out sores.

recent example, i have a chicken that had an infected foot that was being kept in the house. every time the dog sniffs that chicken, it is that foot that he is sniffing. mostly healed now, but he still checks her out to make sure.
any time i have a wound of any kind, he checks it out, even when covered by clothes.

[HuckleB]

15. Ah, that does ring a bell.

Our old lab mutt would do that to me, even through my shoes. Lesson learned: Make sure the footwear kept me from getting blisters.

[Ilsa]

8. Smart dog. The nose knows.

Bless his trainers.

[HuckleB]

17. Absolutely! -eom-

[Omaha Steve]

10. Thanks for posting

K&R!

OS

[HuckleB]

19. You're welcome.

[shenmue]

11. Squeeeeeeeeeee

[Sunlei]

12. Beautiful good boy, Jedi!

[HuckleB]

27. Indeed.

[Duppers]

14. Labs rule. They are so intelligent and insistence.

Great example. Thank you for posting this.

[HuckleB]

25. Indeed. Indeed. Indeed.

[spooky3]

16. Good dog! Amazing that their sense of smell is so acute.

I hope the parents figured out why the monitoring machine did not work.

[Ilsa]

21. My lab has incredible hearing as well as smell.

He can be in the basement, tv on, door closed, and hear the hard dog food hit the dish. He'll paw at the door until I let him in to eat.

He is supposed to be my husband's dog, but he loves me the most. It's obvious.

[spooky3]

22. My cats don't have great sense of smell but they can hear

Any packet that sounds like Temptations.

They sit near the Temps drawer to urge me to open it if they haven't gotten their quota for the day. It's very funny...

[Ilsa]

23. Around 5pm my dog

Will walk over to me if I'm seated, and stick his nose under my upper knee of my crossed legs to try and force me to uncross them and get up! He's applying to MIT, mechanical engineering school.

[spooky3]

24. Haha!

[renate]

20. dogs are the absolute bestest of the best

[HuckleB]

28. +1,000... 000

[tazkcmo]

26. Yay Dogs!!!

Labs are my favorite kind of person!