In the middle of night, the lights were off, and all the six members of the Nuttall family having a sound sleep. The machinery monitoring the blood sugar levels of 7-year-old Luke Nuttall, a patient of dangerous type 1 diabetes, was very quiet. However, Jedi, the diabetes-sniffing dog of Nuttall Family, wasn’t.

In an attempt to wake the sleeping family member, the dog continuously jumped on and off of the bed shared by Luke and his parents. The dog thumped onto the mattress. On noticing that all the efforts were going in vain, the dog laid on top of Dorrie Nuttall.

She got off the bed and examined the continuous glucose monitor of her son, but the reading was normal. Even then the lab was restless, and bowed repeatedly, and continuously gave the signal he has been trained to give in case he sense that the blood sugar of Luke had gotten too low.

Describing the incident in a Facebook post, Nuttall wrote, “Then I knew he meant business. The sleepy fog started to wear off and I began to think clearer. I suddenly was fully awake and I knew there was an issue”.

She immediately pricked the finger of her son and detected a blood sugar level that was nearly 50% as high as the one the monitor displayed. It was quite low and was on a steady decline.

Nuttall immediately gave her sleeping son a glucose tablet and cautiously monitored the tense tableau, featuring the alert dog, sleeping boy, an alarming number on a screen. Then she captured a picture.

In the post, she mentioned that Luke was lying along with her, only a few inches from her, and without the dog Jedi, she wouldn’t have had got any idea that her son was dropping out of a safe range. The post has gone viral and it also carried along a picture of a Jedi saving the boy.