I'm not asking anyone to help me worry, but anyone making light of how I feel just puts me back to when I was a child. No one ever believed me that something was wrong, and my mom thought she was making me "tough" by making light of any situation. Maybe you could call it a trigger.

Those of us who come across Tough, most of the time, have a fragile part, too. Knowing that I have a nodule on my thyroid and my kidneys aren't working makes me feel frighteningly fragile. Not a welcome feeling for someone who has usually been the mover and shaker. There's no one in 3D right now that really cares about ME and what's wrong. My boys don't know yet. Jerry cares, yes, but he cares more about how it's going to impact HIM... not me.