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Whether to Have It or Not, I Deliberated for a Year
Whether to Have It or Not, I Deliberated for a Year
The surgery takes an hour at most.
Yet before that hour, there are often months, even years, of deliberation attached. A patient who recently underwent gynecomastia surgery wrote in his account:
"I too deliberated for a year over whether to have it or not."
A year of deliberation, and a day of surgery. Let me write how this patient's day passed. In his case, along with gynecomastia, he also had nipple reduction done at the same time.
The worry that held him for a year
The reason the deliberation lasted so long came down, in the end, to pain and sedation.
Fear that it would hurt, fear that the anesthesia might go wrong. Yet once he actually had it, it was easier than he'd thought — that was his impression. Of course this is his case, and the experience of surgery and anesthesia varies from person to person. Still, each time we see the substance of a year-long worry confirmed in a single day, we are struck by how long the lifespan of worry can be.
One worry before opening the door
Even before opening the clinic door, he said, there was one worry.
"I was worried there might be women present, but it was only men, and they treated me at ease, so there was no burden."
In a treatment where one must show one's chest, even the glances met in the waiting room are a burden to patients. A male-only treatment environment is our choice, made to erase that burden from the very start.
The time passed quickly
On the day of surgery, this patient stayed at the clinic for about six hours (the actual surgery itself took a little over an hour).
That is the time from preparation through anesthesia, surgery, and recovery. It might sound long, yet he said it passed more quickly than expected. He kindly remembered how we kept checking, throughout his recovery, whether anything was uncomfortable — and in truth, that time matters to us as well. Because a patient going home in a stable condition is the final stage of that day's surgery.
Before exercise that reveals the upper body
For this patient, gynecomastia was also a matter of exercise.
Exercises like running and swimming, which reveal the contour of the upper body, had always been a source of stress, he said. Exercise done out of enjoyment turning into time spent conscious of one's body. Now, he hoped, he would be able to do it with confidence — that was his expectation after surgery.
On a year of deliberation
His words about deliberating for a year over whether to have it were left for those spending that same time. That said, this is his experience, and whether to have surgery is rightly judged after confirming your own condition through an examination. What we can say is only this: the fastest way to shorten a year of deliberation is an examination.
Finally, this patient left this wish:
"I hope you keep giving men confidence in the future!"
I accept that sentence as an assignment. It is something TRUEMAN Bundang must keep doing.