Life is easier these days for Lori Danielson.

After countless phone calls, meetings with representatives of the school board, hours of worrying and finally, getting a lawyer to fight for her, the Coral Springs resident can sit back and relax when her daughter, a Type 1 diabetic, is in school.

With a nurse around for four hours a day at the school to monitor her blood sugar and give her insulin shots, she knows Ali, a fifth-grader at Eagle Ridge Elementary, is safe.

For more than a month, that wasn’t the case.

“There was a full-time nurse last year, but on Aug. 6, the school principal told me that the nurse would be in school only for two hours due to Broward County school district budget cuts,” Danielson said. “There are other students with health issues in the school, but no one needs constant monitoring as Ali does. I feared for her life; without a nurse, there wouldn’t be anyone qualified to help her if her blood sugar level was to drop to a major low.”

Calls to at least three school board members did not bear any result, Danielson said. “The school authorities tried to help but their hands were tied. I had a meeting with health services. There wasn’t any help coming my way. That’s when I decided to seek legal help. On Sept. 3, we filed an emergency injunction against the School Board of Broward County. That was the only option I had.”

When the case came up before Broward County Judge Cheryl Aleman, the school district of Broward County was initially in a mood to fight. It took the position that the Circuit Court did not have jurisdiction to hear the case. But with the two parties having arrived at a compromise, Danielson can breathe again.