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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. \2 _/ d/ }. r. N# e
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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. . \# i5 D" o0 k, }9 E
! r& Y3 e! h1 @( _"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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- X. ?1 O1 @# o7 l0 FAlex's parents, Danielle and Sean Rose, say they're grateful for Mel-O's heroics.
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9 B- ^: X2 A% @"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. 1 k- P9 ^- ]3 W2 g3 [* Z* }
8 q6 K% F3 |7 F: |( o, P"He had five minutes before he would have seized. He would have seized and slipped into a coma and died." 5 b B' u6 G t' z. S2 h1 P
3 x- r- F: o/ e) i& tAfter Alex woke up, Danielle quickly gave him orange juice and cookies to boost his flagging blood sugar levels, she said.
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Then the family rewarded Mel-O with a plate of tuna. 4 Y8 H' B5 w" K) u4 g/ C5 V
$ w8 {1 f% ~5 I sDanielle很快给他橙汁和饼干
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