We're not anticipating problems, other than that we're getting them later than we expected.

I just want to help save them, ... It's fortunate I'm not working right now, because I can go.

He looks like a healthy male, but you see at home what he has to go through.

I think people need to encourage, not discourage.

I don't like to see him minimize (the illness), because it breaks my heart to see what he does every day. Pricking his finger . . . taking all those supplies with him . . . putting a needle in his leg or stomach.

I didn't serve in the military, so this is one way I can give back to the community when it's needed. It's really nice to have that patient contact again.

He's not a very big talker. (When he was little) we'd sit him down in the middle of the room and come back four hours later and he'd still be there.

The Hope is the last remaining movie theatre down here, the last representative of when Stockton was a real entertainment capital. By making the choice not to do a quickie face lift but a loving restoration, that says we are important enough to do this right, that our history matters.

We were talking about Hurricane Katrina. If we were down there and his pump got wet or his insulin was in that 90-degree heat and wasn't any good . . . how sick he'd be.