Yesterday I was at Target getting little gifties for my daughters friend. While I was looking at some items I heard someone saying hi to me. Looked up, didn't recognize the man smiling and looking right at me, but I still said (brightly) Hi there. Then I realized it was the tatted guy from the gym!

He had a cart with a little baby in a car seat perched on top. And a woman with him who he introduced as his wife. Baby was sweetly sleeping and wife was kinda bland in her short intro to me. He introduced me as the new yoga teacher at the gym. Then I saw that the wife had a thyroidectomy scar. asked her about it while I pointed out my own scar. Yikes, she just had a partial 4 wks ago (the incision looks great for 4 wkes) but has to go back in in 9 days to have the rest of it taken out. Turns out her lump was malignant. Poor baby, surgery, cancer and a newish baby.

We ended up talking for 10 or so mins and I was glad we did. She's never known anyone who had a thyroidectomy...although a lady who had had one pointed out the lump in her throat which made her go to the doctor. That first visit was only about 2 wks prior to her first surgery. I thought it was good that within a 6 wk timespan she met 2 other people who'd had thyroidectomies.

I'll have to ask the tatted guy how the wife is doing if I see him at the gym on Wed.