I have paper work now, stating that I am an insulin dependent diabetic with hypoglycemic and hyperglycemic unawareness and need the dog. signed by the endo.
She went to the doctors, an other Home Depot trip and now at Discount Tire which is letting us work on mat training.
We are trying the gym next.
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When I’m high. I don’t think I’ve ever been treatable low around her, but I’ve been high twice around her lately. It’s not that socially acceptable. She climbs up on my lap and licks my face, probably to get the sugar from my sweat.
But it’s something to work with.
It also means we have something to train with.
So we’re all good, vest and cards are here. Bringsel should be on its way. My alert of choice would be her to grab the bringsel and bring it to me. I would like her to do that anytime she thinks I should check my blood sugar, when the pump goes off, when I’m high or when I’m low.
I have been doing a lot of research.
I think the biggest problem is demand is vastly bigger than the supply. I have found some great resources.
http://www.diabeticalertdog.com/index.php
There is a Dallas area trainer who is very helpful to me so far,and has some nice looking dogs but I haven’t met him personally:
So far, access hasn’t been an issue.
I’m doing really well since my last fill. I go in on Thursday I think, need to double check the calendar. Only problem is that I stay constipated so I’m not always sure how much weight I’ve lost.
The Aria scale shows I’ve lost six pounds this month.
First, how do you train it?
Of course, training any performance dog, be it an obedience dog or a narcotics detection dog, is an on going process.
Every situation is going to present a new challenge.
Spoke with a director of student disabilities at a local university today and mentioned that the dog was self trained and an ongoing project.
Last night presented some real challenges that have really made me rethink things today. Do I want to fight the battles…
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My A1C is the best it’s been in a while – 7.7
Last A1C was 9.4 and 8.9 before that, so I’m doing much better.
Some basic work I’ve done with Dulce:
First steps today
Trained K9 Police dogs and handlers for around a decade for various departments in the North Texas area. Established certification standards for said dogs and handlers and was a certifying official. While the founder of the group was of questionable integrity, the other members of the group were and have high standards of integrity.
Was trainer and handler for the number one obedience beagle in the country according to various ratings from approximately 1988-1996 (depending on the ratings organization). Number 1 according to the National Beagle Club in 1990.
Quoted in Karen Pryor’s “The New Art of Teaching and Training”, Don’t Shoot the Dog, Second Edition.
Taught obedience classes for the Dallas Obedience Club and the Dallas Community College District.
Diagnosed with diabetes in 2002 and have been on an insulin pump since 2004.
Have done some digging around on this site, and they look legimate:
http://www.diabeticalertdog.com/
Also:
http://www.diabetesmine.com/2012/07/talking-hypo-alert-caninesin-the-dogs-days-of-summer.html which references
By the way, run the other way if the outfit wants much more than $2000. Run really far if the amount is more than $5000. The ideal model is that the majority of expenses are paid for by donations, and the minority of expenses are paid by the recipient. Usually enough is required show that the recipient is seriously interested.
I don’t do it enough, and every time I do, something happens. Especially when I fly.
This time it started out with @TSA dumping all my items on the floor. Unfortunately nothing seems broken but I haven’t opened up the two spare insulin bottle boxes.
Once they broke three vials of insulin. Well, I dropped them and broke them because I was following their liquid rules. I don’t do that any more with insulin.
Also, when I got to the hotel, they gave me a wheelchair room. Which was very odd, as I had specifically asked for a corner king. I had paid for the extra space as I figured correctly that the room would be quieter.
It was fixed very quickly but with a few minutes of extra concern and inconvenience.
But I’m here in California, missing my dogs and my truck and my husband. Yeah, in that order, though maybe the truck more than the dogs. Have already run into two already friends, and one new one.
Scott Hanselman inadvertently advised me that @TSA are just people who didn’t get to be real cops, and since I used to train real cops, I really DO get them.