I love the holidays, but it usually takes until the new year for us to recover from all that goes with Christmas and making it happen.
So a couple days after the BIG day, I lay down after lunch to rest my eyes. Fatigued and intending only to nap, I fell into an exhausted sleep. My other half also fell asleep, leaving the kids engrossed in a game of Wii.
This scenario just doesn't happen in our household, there's always one of us to keep an eye on them and Jason's blood glucose levels.
But on the odd occasion that you take your eye off the ball, relax a little, do something out of the ordinary like sleep in the middle of the day, is like a disaster waiting to happen. Diabetes doesn't care if you're exhausted or sick, it's relentless.
So as we sleep our son's blood glucose levels are dropping, and like us, he is totally unaware of it. It is at this moment that I am woken suddenly by a pawing on my arm. Bailey has jumped up onto the bed to let me know that his boy has gone low. When I test Jason, his blood glucose reading is 3.
This year has been full of 'Wow' moments but I think this one might just take the cake. When you train a dog to be a diabetic alert dog, you're not just training them to detect abnormal blood sugars but you create a thinking dog, for extraordinary moments like these when they help divert a potential disaster.
So a couple days after the BIG day, I lay down after lunch to rest my eyes. Fatigued and intending only to nap, I fell into an exhausted sleep. My other half also fell asleep, leaving the kids engrossed in a game of Wii.
This scenario just doesn't happen in our household, there's always one of us to keep an eye on them and Jason's blood glucose levels.
But on the odd occasion that you take your eye off the ball, relax a little, do something out of the ordinary like sleep in the middle of the day, is like a disaster waiting to happen. Diabetes doesn't care if you're exhausted or sick, it's relentless.
So as we sleep our son's blood glucose levels are dropping, and like us, he is totally unaware of it. It is at this moment that I am woken suddenly by a pawing on my arm. Bailey has jumped up onto the bed to let me know that his boy has gone low. When I test Jason, his blood glucose reading is 3.
This year has been full of 'Wow' moments but I think this one might just take the cake. When you train a dog to be a diabetic alert dog, you're not just training them to detect abnormal blood sugars but you create a thinking dog, for extraordinary moments like these when they help divert a potential disaster.