White Stockings---No!

  I read, because nobody tells  me anything, that after surgery the patient must wear compression stockings.  I'm always glad when the weather warms up enough so I don't have to wear socks; I dislike and don't wear white, or even light-colored socks; I absolutely hate socks that are tight.  When the weather dictates, I wear black, short, loose-fitting socks.  If my feet get cold at night and I wear socks to bed, I always have to peel them off before I can get to sleep.  I'm sure I'll suffer a kind of claustrophobia if I have to wear those awful white sausage casings. Not to mention the grotesquerie of looking like Alice in Wonderland.  O, The Horror, the Horror.