Stay.

Don't move.

Don't change.

Do nothing different.

Retrace yesterday's steps. 

Put on the same jeans.

Exert the same amount of energy.

Count out exactly eight mini pancakes.

Pour 4 ounces of milk.

Skin at the infusion site: Stay taut and unblemished.

Liver: Do whatever it is you've been doing. It's working.

Weather: Don't change. Stay dreary and damp.

Moon: stay half-full and bright.

Tube: be crystal clear and free of air bubbles.

Nightmares: not today!

Arguments: be nonexistent.

Stress of any kind: stay away!

Growth hormones: It's hard to tell you to scram, but settle down, will ya?

Liver: I mean it. If you've got to tinkle, tinkle the same amount of glucose and at the same exact rate.

Charlie's blood sugar has been close to perfect for two days straight.

Two days may not seem like a lot to you, but to us it is. When it comes to target blood sugars, we don't have good days. We have good moments within so-so days. We'll see great numbers during the day and then crap numbers at night and the next day vice versa. It is extremely rare for us to have 24 hours of good blood sugars. So, 48 hours is pretty special.

I want to hit "save." I want to take these days and store them in an air-tight jar. I want all of the constantly changing elements of this disease to just stop; stop twisting and turning in opposing directions. Just for a little while longer.

Well, it was fun while it lasted. He was 340 at dinner.