I had my surgery with Dr. Cooley on April 8th 2015. This website has been very beneficial to me and I would like to share my experience.
I arrived at his office early morning am on Wednesday April 8th. First we went over some more questions and discussing my goals. All this was discussed during the consultation but it is good to go over them again before the actual procedure too. Basically my goal is to cover the frontal region. I took some meds and then Dr. Cooley took some pre-op pictures. I also met Brandi there while taking pictures. He drew the hair line on my head and as soon as he did that, I completely felt very comfortable because it was exactly as I had envisioned it. My wife was there too and she also immediately approved the hair line. So that really showed me his expertise and knowledge. And it gave me an assurance about him.
Then we went to the operation room while my wife waited in the waiting room. Then I took some more meds and had an IV. Then I laid face down on the strip removal chair. I was nervous about this but honestly I did not feel a thing. I only thing I felt was some numbing shots to my head, and it was very minor pinches. I fell asleep and, as I woke up, the room was full of technicians and the strip was already removed and my head was already sutured. It was very quick and seamless.
While the technicians where dissecting the graphs, Dr. Cooley was doing the holes where the graphs would go. It was Dr. Cooley and Brandi that did all the graph insertions. Dr. Cooley was there the whole time, and this is very important for me that the Doctor be there. I know some are alright otherwise but for me it shows the care of the doctor and I really appreciate that he was there the whole time. Although he did step out once and another able technician, Amy, came in to assist. But Dr. Cooley came back. Then it was over. The whole procedure took about 11 hours. If anyone wants more detailed info regarding the procedure please IM me or reply to this thread.
I had initially wanted to get at least 3000 graphs but what Doctor Cooley did was very impressive. He got 3522 graphs and only charged me for the 3000. Here is the breakdown of the graph count, let me know what you all think:
1 : 1086
2: 1519
3: 812
4: 105
At the end of the operation I told Dr. Cooley that before coming here to meet you, I felt that I had picked a good surgeon but now that I have met you and your staff and did the operation, I KNOW that I had picked the best surgeon for me. And I really mean that. He is very caring and wants to do the best for his patients. The first two pics are pre-op and the third one is the day after the procedure after the head wash. I would really appreciate any feeback from you all. Thanks. I will try my best to do updates.