Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
It would appear 55-year-old Jean Lundquist of Good Thunder, Minn., has been handed a living and loveable lifesaver.
Lundquist was diagnosed at age 16 with Type 1 diabetes, also called juvenile diabetes, which a National Institutes of Health website defines as a lifelong disease, usually beginning in childhood, when an affected person's pancreas fails to produce enough insulin to control blood sugar levels. Many people with Type 1 often are unaware their blood sugar levels are falling, thus setting the stage for their being especially vulnerable without warning to a potentially life-threatening medical condition.
http://www.ahherald.com/columns-mainmenu-28/disabilities-week/11727-diabetes-service-dogs-save-lives
Lundquist was diagnosed at age 16 with Type 1 diabetes, also called juvenile diabetes, which a National Institutes of Health website defines as a lifelong disease, usually beginning in childhood, when an affected person's pancreas fails to produce enough insulin to control blood sugar levels. Many people with Type 1 often are unaware their blood sugar levels are falling, thus setting the stage for their being especially vulnerable without warning to a potentially life-threatening medical condition.
http://www.ahherald.com/columns-mainmenu-28/disabilities-week/11727-diabetes-service-dogs-save-lives