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Apr. 26, 2006 04:42 PM
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EDMONTON - If not for his cat Mel-O, 9-year-old Alex Rose figures he'd be laid up in a hospital bed trying to recover from a diabetic seizure - or worse.
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His year-old feline - who usually stays away from people - crawled up four steps onto Alex's loft bed and walked across his belly, clawed and batted him to wake the boy, who has Type 1 diabetes, just as his blood sugar dropped to dangerously low levels. " [2 P" s; k, ?* x6 ]: J' K
! s6 t' U: t! }" i# ?"It was amazing," said Alex, as he scooped ice cream into his mouth to celebrate his ninth birthday Tuesday at the Edmonton Humane Society, where Mel-O received a certificate and special tag for her part in keeping him alive. advertisement
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2 \6 U9 X: D: Q$ G i0 e) VAlex's parents, Danielle and Sean Rose, say they're grateful for Mel-O's heroics.
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/ e, W. q, Z/ A" {% M"Did she save his life? In my mind, yes," said Danielle, referring to the March 28 incident at the family home in Morinville, north of Edmonton.
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"He had five minutes before he would have seized. He would have seized and slipped into a coma and died." 7 d1 k+ R7 s Z5 }
1 t1 ? V3 i. M( _5 B3 t1 K" dAfter Alex woke up, Danielle quickly gave him orange juice and cookies to boost his flagging blood sugar levels, she said. / U% G$ _9 f# C3 S ^
+ h# S1 N# E6 Z) d8 |Then the family rewarded Mel-O with a plate of tuna.
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