CDragon

That...is completely awesome...the Thrawn Trilogy is my all time fav book series. >.> <.<.....*wonders when Zahn is going to write another book*

That's not good, but he pays attention to his doctor, eat the right stuff and take his meds right, exercise and all that junk, he can beat it down. It will take time, etc, but it is possible if diagnosed early enough. I was diagnosed type 2 some time ago and I beat it back to being just insulin resistant. That hardest part is cutting out most pasta, bread, most junk food, candy etc, but there is some really tasty stuff out there. One of my fav's to eat instead of pasta is dry fry (no butter or oil so to cut fat...you can do it in a non-stick pan) up eggplant or zucchini, then dump spaghetti sauce on it. Its a lot cheeper and tastier than the low-carb pastas. I can't manage to get the stuff to taste like anything other than pencil erasers and I'm a decent cook.

Thank you, all of you. I'll link my brother to this page and let him also see and pass it on. Paul was a great friend to many people. I've been friends with him since I was a young kid, sitting and watching him and my brother play out one of their many lego battles. My brother was a friend with him far longer than myself as they were classmates back in grade school right through to high school and beyond. He'd been diagnosed as a diabetic back when he was a kid. He was horribly prone to sugar attacks, so he liked to stick with people just in case so they could get help or help him if needed. In the more recent months, his health started to decline more, and had been on dialysis the past few months, and it took up a lot of his time. According to my brother, he had just called the night before, was chipper as ever. The next morning, we heard the news when a mutual friend called my brother and told him. It feels like it wasn't too long ago that Paul was congratulating me for graduating high school and sitting and chatting about Star Wars. A lot of things feel like they weren't that long ago now, but he's now at peace and no longer has to suffer being ill. All I can say, beyond that, is the same as I said in the guestbook... May the force be with you, Grand Moff Conway.

I know I just registered to this forum yesterday, and not everyone may believe me when I say what I am about to say, and there is no easy way to say it. I've given this a good deal of thought, and I believe I would like the same kindness paid to myself as well, should something ever happen to me. A very good friend used to frequent these boards and I know about it because we shared interests in Star Wars, gaming and other things, as I'm a long time IRL friend of his. I don't know how much he told any one here as to what was going on with him, nor what he was telling anyone over MSN. Grand Moff Conway passed away sometime Tuesday night. Last night I went to the calling hours and today was his funeral. He was a great friend and I'll miss him.