Ozzie On The Move

Ozzie On The Move Life w/ a goofy lab & his siblings 🖤
Diabetic Alert Dog 🧃
Training, enrichment & everyday life ☕️
Atlanta, GA 📍

08/05/2026

Ozzie loves a girl group too

I came across a video today about the Flame of Hope at The Banting House in Canada.The flame was lit to honor the discov...
08/03/2026

I came across a video today about the Flame of Hope at The Banting House in Canada.

The flame was lit to honor the discovery of insulin, and it will continue to burn until there's a cure for type 1 diabetes.

I don't know why, but that hit me harder than I expected.

Living with Type 1 diabetes becomes so routine that it's easy to forget how extraordinary it is that many of us have access to insulin, CGMs, insulin pumps, and other tools that help us navigate this disease every single day.

Then I started thinking how a little over 100 years ago, a diagnosis like mine was almost always a death sentence.

Today, millions of us wake up, take our insulin, check our blood sugar, change our pump sites or sensors, and keep living our lives. It isn't easy, and it isn't something any of us asked for but it's possible because of discoveries that changed the course of history.

Sometimes we get so caught up in the alarms, carb counting, site changes, and the day-to-day management that we forget to step back and appreciate just how far we've come.

I hope one day that flame is finally extinguished, not because it's forgotten, but because a cure exists.

Until then, I'm grateful for every person whose work made it possible for me, and millions of others, to be here today. 🤍

08/02/2026

Looking back at clips from the aquarium, I overheard a woman say, "Seriously? A service dog at the aquarium? How much more attention do you need?"

News flash...My service dog isn't there for attention. He's there to alert me to dangerous changes in my blood sugar.

He's my best friend, my partner, and a vital part of my medical care. He gives me the confidence to live my life safely, not attention.

08/01/2026

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This page has always been about spreading awareness, sharing my journey, and connecting with people who understand what ...
08/01/2026

This page has always been about spreading awareness, sharing my journey, and connecting with people who understand what it's like to live with a service dog, Type 1 diabetes, disabilities, and chronic illness.

I welcome respectful conversations, different perspectives, and genuine questions. What I will not tolerate is people coming onto my page to belittle, mock, or disrespect members of these communities. That includes attacking me or anyone else who is simply sharing their lived experience.

Going forward, if you choose to be hateful, disrespectful, or intentionally stir up arguments, don't be surprised if you're called out, your comments are removed, or you're blocked. I'm done allowing people to treat this community like it's a place to spread negativity without consequences.

This space is for education, support, and kindness. If you're here for that, I'm so glad you're here. If you're here to tear people down, this isn't the page for you, please unfollow me.

-Ivey

This is the kind of gatekeeping that makes disabled people afraid to participate in their own community.I posted a 10-se...
07/31/2026

This is the kind of gatekeeping that makes disabled people afraid to participate in their own community.

I posted a 10-second clip of me rewarding my service dog. That's it. Somehow, that was enough for someone to decide my dog isn't trained properly, question other service dog teams, and even refer to people as "newly disabled."

You do not get to decide who is disabled enough.

You do not get to determine whether someone's service dog is legitimate based on a few seconds of video.

And you certainly don't get to talk down to other disabled people because their training methods don't look like yours.

Positive reinforcement is not "bribery." Rewarding a dog for correct behavior is a completely valid training method. I intentionally chose a clip of me rewarding Ozzie because that was literally the point of the video.

What concerns me isn't that someone trains differently than I do. It's the assumption that if your team doesn't look like theirs, it must be wrong.

That kind of gatekeeping hurts disabled people far more than it helps.

We should be supporting each other, not deciding who is "disabled enough" or whose service dog is "real enough."

We have enough ignorance from the general public. The last thing the disability community needs is other disabled people acting like they're the gatekeepers of who belongs.

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