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re: Virginia high school features student's dog in yearbook
Posted on 5/27/17 at 12:13 am to DAbully
Posted on 5/27/17 at 12:13 am to DAbully
Not bullshite at all.
One of the doctors I call on has one. His wife has Type 1 Diabetes and she works in the office. She has a diabetic service dog and that dog is amazing.
I've watched him go from sleeping soundly to pawing her foot to alert her in the span of 30 seconds. She told me the dog has woken her up in the middle of the night to alert her of high or low blood sugar. The dog paws her foot for high blood sugar and nudges her with his head for low blood sugar. He can smell the difference.
She always tests her blood sugar after he alerts to verify what he is smelling. She said he's never been wrong once in the year she has had him.
A lot of the recent "service dog" stuff is nonsense but the diabetic service dogs are legit. What they can smell is truly amazing. Watching him "work" is a really cool deal.
One of the doctors I call on has one. His wife has Type 1 Diabetes and she works in the office. She has a diabetic service dog and that dog is amazing.
I've watched him go from sleeping soundly to pawing her foot to alert her in the span of 30 seconds. She told me the dog has woken her up in the middle of the night to alert her of high or low blood sugar. The dog paws her foot for high blood sugar and nudges her with his head for low blood sugar. He can smell the difference.
She always tests her blood sugar after he alerts to verify what he is smelling. She said he's never been wrong once in the year she has had him.
A lot of the recent "service dog" stuff is nonsense but the diabetic service dogs are legit. What they can smell is truly amazing. Watching him "work" is a really cool deal.
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Posted on 5/27/17 at 1:42 am to lsunurse
Some weird last names at that school, Virginia thing?
Posted on 5/27/17 at 8:08 am to lsunurse
Alpha as f@ck?
Posted on 5/27/17 at 8:11 am to EyeTwentyNole
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Some weird last names at that school, Virginia thing?
Not all last names end in "-eaux"
Posted on 5/27/17 at 8:11 am to UHTiger
Alpha. What a great name for a dog.
Posted on 5/27/17 at 8:13 am to lsunurse
Dogs are awesome.
Posted on 5/27/17 at 8:13 am to yellowfin
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diabetic Service dog
I'm sure the kid is bad off to have one.
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Diabetic Alert Dogs are trained to alert diabetic owners in advance of low (hypoglycemia) or high (hyperglycemia) blood sugar events before they become dangerous
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A Diabetic Alert Dog is specifically trained to react to the chemical change produced by blood sugar highs and lows.
Yep, once again, dogs prove they're not just dogs.
Posted on 5/27/17 at 8:52 am to lsunurse
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.the dog can use their amazing sense of smell to detect when the person's blood sugar is too high or low
And this is more effective than taking the two seconds it takes to check a blood glucose level on a glucometer or teaching the kid some simple signs and symptoms of hyper/hypoglycemia?
Posted on 5/27/17 at 8:54 am to BamaChick
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One of the doctors I call on has one. His wife has Type 1 Diabetes and she works in the office. She has a diabetic service dog and that dog is amazing.
I've watched him go from sleeping soundly to pawing her foot to alert her in the span of 30 seconds. She told me the dog has woken her up in the middle of the night to alert her of high or low blood sugar. The dog paws her foot for high blood sugar and nudges her with his head for low blood sugar. He can smell the difference.
She always tests her blood sugar after he alerts to verify what he is smelling. She said he's never been wrong once in the year she has had him.
A lot of the recent "service dog" stuff is nonsense but the diabetic service dogs are legit. What they can smell is truly amazing. Watching him "work" is a really cool deal.
I stand corrected. This is awesome.
Sorry LSUNurse.
Posted on 5/27/17 at 9:01 am to ctiger69
"We are Indians People"? I am triggered by this yearbook.
Posted on 5/27/17 at 9:12 am to ctiger69
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And this is more effective than taking the two seconds it takes to check a blood glucose level on a glucometer or teaching the kid some simple signs and symptoms of hyper/hypoglycemia?
Exactly. Sure that dog has its use, but it's likely that kid is lazy AF with overly wealthy parents. How have kids survived all these years prior without that dog? I know service dogs are great dogs, but that dogs serves much more of a distraction than it's necessity in a school.
Posted on 5/27/17 at 9:18 am to DAbully
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Bull...fricking...shite
Posted on 5/27/17 at 9:19 am to Michael T. Tiger
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am triggered by this yearbook.
Bet the mascot is racist af
Posted on 5/27/17 at 9:25 am to lsunurse
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.the dog can use their amazing sense of smell to detect when the person's blood sugar is too high or low
I have a small electronic device that tells me precisely what my blood sugar is. And it doesn't shite or shed, and I don't have to feed it. And you can pet it even when it's "working".
This post was edited on 5/27/17 at 9:26 am
Posted on 5/27/17 at 9:29 am to TigrrrDad
Would you say this person is lazy for using a dog instead of monitoring their sugar level themselves?
Posted on 5/27/17 at 10:15 am to ctiger69
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And this is more effective than taking the two seconds it takes to check a blood glucose level on a glucometer or teaching the kid some simple signs and symptoms of hyper/hypoglycemia?
What about when they are sleeping? Also with Type I from what i understand the symptoms can be pretty rapid, so the dog could catch it before he has debilitating symptoms.
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