Wearing Light-Colored Clothes

The closets of people who come in for gynecomastia are generally alike. Black, navy, and a top one size up. Light colors show the body's lines plainly, so you never reach for them.

One short answer about wearing light colors is, in effect, what divides before from after.

In the box about their first impression of the clinic, they wrote "clean and calm." For a moment that stayed with them from the surgery, none; for what they would like from us, none.

Having no memory of the surgery is natural. The time after anesthesia begins does not stay with the patient. I take the answer that there is nothing they would ask for as meaning less that we did something exceptional than that nothing was uncomfortable.

In the box about what worried them while considering surgery, they wrote only, in effect, that they are satisfied enough to regret not doing it sooner. To others with the same concern, they wrote to do it as soon as possible.

Those are the words of someone who has been through it. But whether surgery is needed, and whether now is the right time, is something to determine after confirming your own condition through an examination.

I hope they choose light colors freely this summer.