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INTRODUCTION
Around the age of 13 or 14, I noticed my breasts were not as flat as
other boys'. At that time, I thought the reason was because of my weight.
As the years went by, I chose not to take my shirt off in public. Since
I never saw or heard of any boy or man having breasts, I figured it
was something only I had.
I tried many ways to make my chest less noticeable, like losing weight
or wearing baggy shirts, and whenever I went to the shower after gym
class, I would take my right arm and reach over my chest, acting like
I was scratching my left shoulder.
Around the age of 29, I started to experience pain in my chest area,
so I finally confided in a family member about what I was feeling inside
my chest...a "hard, bumpy material". I also went to see a doctor here
in Japan, where I live. One of the first questions my doctor asked me
was, "Are you taking drugs?"
My sister was working at Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee.
She found someone who told her my condition was called Gynecomastia.
This was the first time I learned my chest condition had a name.
I asked for a leave of absence from work and returned to the U.S. for
an operation. I chose Dr. David L. Larson, of Froedtert Memorial Lutheran
Hospital in Milwaukee, to perform the surgery.
This is where my real challenge began. Read what happened to me during
my surgery for Gynecomastia by Dr. Larson and the whole story up to
the year 2007.
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