^{from While You Sleeping:}

"You know you work hard, try to provide for the family, and then for one minute everything's good. Everyone's well, everyone's happy. In that one minute, you have peace."

—"Pop...this isn't that minute."

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I keep waiting for that minute when all is right. I keep wondering when the bad things will stop happening. I keep hoping that it is soon.

We are going to the clinic today, so Mom can get tested for diabetes. Yeah...diabetes atop everything else. Her blood glucose level was through the roof last week. We need it to be a fluke, but something inside tells me that it isn't. So we must hope for diabetes, the lesser of evils an elevated glucose level suggests at this stage. We're hoping for a disease.

But someday, one minute will seem carefree. One minute will lift us away from the weight of the world. I take life slowly now...ever watchful for that minute.