I posted 17 new pictures on my web blog. Tomorrow (11-2-2008) will be 4 months so I'm 1 day early. Feel free to comment good or bad. Thanks in advance.

I took a assortment of pics with flash off and flash on to give as many views as possible. I'd love to see more hair grow and some gaps filled in but I remain cautiously optimistic. I usually try not to get my hopes too high.

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4374 grafts-7/2/2008-Dr Rahal
485 singles
2336 doubles
1526 triples
16 quads
9809 total hairs

I posted 17 new pictures on my web blog. Tomorrow (11-2-2008) will be 4 months so I'm 1 day early. Feel free to comment good or bad. Thanks in advance.

I took a assortment of pics with flash off and flash on to give as many views as possible. I'd love to see more hair grow and some gaps filled in but I remain cautiously optimistic. I usually try not to get my hopes too high.

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4374 grafts-7/2/2008-Dr Rahal
485 singles
2336 doubles
1526 triples
16 quads
9809 total hairs

wantego,

I'd say there is a big improvement, even from 3 months. I can tell by the caliber of the hair that it's going to thicken significantly as it matures, which is typical anyway at this early stage. You do seem to have a lot of early growth, so I'm not sure how much new growth you will have, but expect some and a lot of thickening. I don't think you're going to be able to see any real difference in density between your natural and transplanted hair after it's all grown out

Happy growing,

Bill

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Thanks Bill. Thickening would be great but there are some legitimate gaps right now so I really hope I do have some more new hairs grow as well. If no more new hairs are to grow I would be a bit worried about my final result.

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485 singles
2336 doubles
1526 triples
16 quads
9809 total hairs

Looking good for 4 months.
I did notice your day 7 pics and the 3 month pics were in the same hawaiian shirt.

Sure you aren't trying to pull something?

Thank you BYEHAIR.

I have always tried to be 100% honest about my results. If anything when people ask I tend to underplay my own results because I never want to get my own hopes up too high or anyone else's hopes to high. You did catch me wearing the same button down Hawaiian shirt. I actually wore that button down shirt many days in the first 3 months since I really baby my grafts way more than most people. I bought that Hawaiian button down shirt and a black button down shirt ($7.99 each at Walmart) specifically for the surgery. So what do you think I'm "trying to pull"?

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4374 grafts-7/2/2008-Dr Rahal
485 singles
2336 doubles
1526 triples
16 quads
9809 total hairs

wantego-- hey man i think its lookin really good. and its a real nice improvement... do you think you might be interested in showing the hairline itself...

also just wondering how you feel about where your at, at this point. so far has the journy been what you expected?? thanks for sharing for us and i wish you even more improvment

Hey Lost thanks a bunch!!

When you ask about showing the hairline do you mean pull the hair back like I see younger guys with longer hair do? If that is what you mean I will do that with my next batch of pictures. Or do you mean cut the hair shorter to show the hairline? I dont want to cut the grafts at all. I tend to baby them.
As far as what I think so far goes, people I speak to probably get tired of me always saying I'm "cautiously optimistic". I say that because while I'm encouraged so far I do not want to get my hopes too high, get my friend/mom's hopes too high, or jinx myself.

Does that make any sense?

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4374 grafts-7/2/2008-Dr Rahal
485 singles
2336 doubles
1526 triples
16 quads
9809 total hairs

Wow, there was quite a change from 3 months to 4 months.
Congratulations, looks good!

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Looks great. Your are way ahead in the game.

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