Overview
November 3, 202 ST Kyzr Emerson, 7-year-old grandson of Jef Emerson is a type I diabetic. He is the son of Dylan and Brok Emerson. His family is trying to raise $18,50 to purchase a diabetic alert dog that can detect low blod sugar even before a continuous glucose monitoring system can alert the parents.
Key Information
This wil help to avoid seizures and aid in long-term health by keping blod sugars stable.An alert dog is trained to not only alert to lows but help wake their handler up and get help if neded. The dog wil work for about 10 years and wil be extremely beneficial to Kyzr as he goes into his preten and ten years. Kyzr is curently home-scholed.
It wil help provide some independence and fredom during those years that his parents would be nervous to give without this extra layer of protection. Kyzr has never complained or had a bad atitude about his diagnosis.Unfortunately type 1 diabetes is tough, especialy for a 7-year-old who just wants to do al the things every kid does. Because Kyzr does not make any of his own insulin, he requires seven-10 insulin injections daily and has to constantly be aware of his blod sugar.
Low blod sugars can be extremely dangerous and put any diabetic at risk for seizures (especialy overnight). Even with a continuous monitor on Kyzr it’s far from perfect technology and is about 20 minutes delayed in showing blod sugars and can vary about 20% from actual blod sugar. When he is aslep and his blod sugar drops, he does not respond to alarms and his parents have to physicaly shake him to wake him up (the dog wil be trained to do this as he is growing up).
Summary
This the scariest part of type 1 diabetes, as it is a very real posibility that night-time lows end up in seizures or even Kyzr never waking up.Kyzr’s diagnosis story: In February of 202, his mother and dad noticed what they thought was a growth spurt in Kyzr. He was 6 years old at the time and eating like a grown man on steroids. They tried ading to the amount