"Hesitating Only Delays the Surgery Date"

After you arrive, finish preparations, and enter the operating room, the anesthesiologist checks your condition and then begins sedation. I, as the operating surgeon, come in after the anesthesia has taken effect. When the surgery is over you wake up in the recovery room, and after your condition is checked you go home. The result and the removed tissue are explained to you at that time.

After waking from anesthesia, some people are left feeling drowsy or sleepy for about half a day. This is a normal course. However, you must not drive in that state, so we advise in advance not to bring a car on the day of surgery. It is better to keep that day clear of plans. Having someone accompany you home is better still.

The typical course for pain is that the day of surgery and the next day are the most uncomfortable, and it eases over the following several days. The degree differs with the amount and extent of tissue removed and one's usual sensitivity to pain.

About when they first came to the clinic, they wrote that it was comfortable because all the staff were men. This is a field where the chest has to be looked at directly from the very first examination. That is why the Incheon branch has all-male staff.

Once this condition is in place, only then do people begin to ask what they want to know. What you could not ask in the consultation room you will not be able to ask once you are home either, so I tend to spend time on explanations. They wrote briefly that the surgery itself went comfortably and well.

In the box for plans after surgery, there was one line.

"I think I'll live with confidence."

I read it as meaning they spent a long time choosing clothes and minding their posture because of their chest. What surgery changes is usually this kind of daily life.

The word I asked them to leave for others with the same concern was this.

"Hesitating only delays the surgery date."

This is what this person said after going through it themselves. However, whether you are in a condition that needs surgery is something to decide after checking at an examination, and that check can be done first, separately from the decision.

You can start by keeping the day of surgery clear.