Faithful Labrador Saves His 7-Year-Old Boy’s Life Every Single Day!

7-year-old Luke lives each day at the mercy of a disease dealt with by less than 5% of diabetics. Managing type 1 diabetes means constant monitoring, countless needles, and a never-ending fear no child or family should have to endure.

Luke’s official diagnosis five years ago blind-sided everyone, but his family realized now how much he needed them to be strong.

When 11-week-old Jedi entered the picture, things became a little easier to bear. Jedi is a diabetic alert dog, and he lets Luke’s mom and dad know when their son’s blood sugar levels are too high or low.

The incredible thing is he does this even at night so this pup is working 24/7 around the clock!

His parents explained night alerts on their Facebook page, “Night alerts. (and just to clarify for people who just joined us Jedi catches dropping blood sugars before they go too low or very early on in the drop, we just call them all lows because to Jedi they are – even if it isn’t technically a diabetic low – of under 70. We don’t rely 100% on Jedi we have the CGM and still set alarms to check Luke over night because Jedi is a living breathing creature and can and does miss alerts as wonderful as he is he needs sleep too)

Jedi jumped off the bed and started to alert (he’s a big dog I always can feel him move around and jump off). I grabbed my phone to use for a flashlight and decided to turn the flash on and film what happened next. I missed the beginning of the alert but you can see him pawing the bed and yawning which is his stress signal that that something is wrong. Jedi caught this drifting down blood sugar at 72 which isn’t dangerous in itself but it is low for night and Jedi knows when he’s drifting lower so we can treat and watch closely – this early alert allows us to prevent as many dangerous lows as possible at night. Don’t worry I immediately went to the kitchen to grab Luke a glucose tab – no Luke’s or Jedi’s were harmed…”

While the family knows they are very lucky to have such an attentive dog as Jedi, they’ve added a few things people should know about diabetic alert dogs:

“1. Not all diabetic alert dogs alert at night. Jedi was a wonderful day alerter by the time he was one year-old but it took us until he was 18 months old with LOTS of training and LOTS of work to get him to alert at night. We still work on it and reinforce it to this day. He catches most things at night but he is a living creature that needs rest and if he’s too tired he can miss and we never blame him for that.
2. Jedi’s night alert includes jumping off the bed and doing whatever it takes to wake me up. He also bows for lows.
3. Luke wears a Dexcom continuous glucose monitor (an absolutely wonderful tool that everybody should have with or without a dog) it will alarm if Luke goes low but it is 20 to 30 minutes delayed so if we wait for the alarms he would be much lower. Jedi beats it all the time which allows us to catch lows before they go too low.
3. At night we want Jedi to alert anything under 75 so that we can take immediate action.
4. My phone is within a few feet of me 24 hours a day since I track Luke’s blood sugar on my watch that is Bluetooth connected to my phone. My phone, his kit, all his emergency supplies are on my headboard at all times when I sleep.
5. Jedi sleeps with me since I’m the one that he has to tell there’s a blood sugar issue. He can smell Luke from my room with no problem.
6. Having a dog alert at night actually means you get less sleep sometimes. You have to acknowledge, reward and confirm every alert even if you’re tired and you don’t want to.
7. Oh and we love Jedi. ❤he is family.”

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