Dog saved life of sleeping 7-year-old with diabetes
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Luke Nuttall was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes when he was 2 years old.
The rare form of the disease is diagnosed in about 5 percent of people, according to the American Diabetes Association.
His mother Dorrie Nuttall, monitors her son's glucose levels with medical equipment and a specially trained black Labrador named Jedi.
Jedi has been trained as a diabetic alert dog since he was 11 weeks old. He has used his nose to track Luke's high or low blood sugar for about three years.
Jedi brings Nuttall a bringsel, a device a dog carries to signal a diabetic to check their blood sugar level and bows when numbers are too low, according to CBS News. Jedi brings the device and waves if Nuttall's levels are high.
The dog's training was recently put to use.
Luke, now 7, was sleeping when his glucose level severely dropped. Jedi sensed the change and jumped onto Dorrie's bed and laid on top of her until she awoke.
"Luke was laying right next to me, just inches from me, and without Jedi I would have had no idea that he was dropping out of a safe range," Dorrie wrote in a Facebook post March 4.
This may just look like a dog, a sleeping boy and a number on a screen, but this, this moment right here is so much...
Posted by Saving Luke - Luke and Jedi - Fighting Type 1 Diabetes Together on Thursday, March 3, 2016
