<p>At the university at which I worked in res life, the undergrads there called it a “dingle” too. It was a highly desirable situation.</p>
<p>I think it would be difficult for an app to detect an oncoming diabetic coma, since the app would have to test your blood sugar to do that.</p>
<p>Isn’t one of the signs of an insulin problem “fruity breath” caused by ketoacidosis? Maybe some type of breathalyzer app?</p>
<p>I ended up in a “trouble” - a three room triple that ended up being a three room double when one roommate left due to health issues. Yeah, people envied our living room.</p>
<p>I’d think about a service dog for diabetes.</p>
<p>I’d think TWICE about a service dog for DM. With good control the hassles of caring for a service animal would far outweigh the benefits. I would have people who routinely check up instead- arrangements based on probable times. Service dogs for seizures involve the unpredictability of that disorder. With good management DM is predictable- such as the middle of the night scenario.</p>
<p>I wonder- would a middle of the night alarm clock help with that low blood sugar scenario above???</p>
<p>Actually, there are Continuous Glucose Monitors (cgm’s) on the market that can alert people with diabetes to overnight lows. A cgm is a device that’s worn continuously (hence the name) that not only monitors blood sugar levels but can let you know if your blood sugar is diving or soaring. It comes with an obnoxiously loud alarm that can wake you up if you’re going low.</p>
<p>It’s especially useful for those diabetics who have lost the ability to sense when they’re going low, which does happen…</p>
<p>^ My cousin, a freshman in college, has a CGM. She has had it for a few years now because no matter how much she and her mother (a gastroenterologist) tried, she was still having problems detecting spikes and dives. She used to have to wake up every day at like 2-3 AM because she was plummeting a few times a month in the middle of the night. It does have the alarm and it went off once when she was spending a week with me. Yowwie. </p>
<p>Her roommate knows about it and she told her roommate about it as soon as they were paired up together. She said she told her roommate that she would be more than understanding if she didn’t want to have a roommate with an occasionally obnoxious monitor. The roommate apparently was more thrilled that she didn’t have to worry about my cousin coming back to the room trashed (my cousin has zero interest in alcohol and I don’t think that will change) than she cared about the monitor so they’ve been rooming together. So far, so good 
(a month+ later). </p>
<p>My cousin would never expect her roommate to administer an emergency injection or to know when she’s getting sick. So, she checks in with her parents every night. Her parents are extremely overprotective (this was the case long before the diabetes diagnosis) so they require she Skypes every night. I think it’s too much but it works for them. </p>