I know that the pictures are of awful quality, but you can see what I mean when I say that it's not just the hair, and that it essentially looks like a dried-out graft. When I told the consultant, he said that it's okay, it's just the top half of the graft, but this is clearly not just the top half. The top half is the visible half, which is just the small hair above the head, if I understand correctly. He said that as long as there is no bleeding (again, there isn't), the graft isn't lost, but that doesn't look to be the case, although I admittedly know little about hair transplantation. The grafts are 3-5mm in length. You can barely see the tiny hair coming out because of the low picture quality, but you can clearly see the white area (dried out, it looks yellow) around the hair shaft that goes below the surface hair. The second image is a 2-hair follicular unit, while the third is a 1-hair unit (as are the others), although I also saw a couple 3-hair units fall out as well (plenty more have fallen out as well, these are just the ones that I kept).
So the saline spray is just to help with the healing of the incisions, right? Seeing as how the grafts look rather dead and dried-out, I thought it was because I hadn't sprayed the recipient area (rather, I sprayed the donor area like the nurse or whoever washed my hair the day after). I figured that meant that they weren't kept hydrated, although I also thought that that is done by the body since the living part of the graft is kept under the skin, and the hair above the skin is just dead cells anyways.
I don't know what I'm supposed to make of this, but I will definitely bring these to my suture removal appointment on Monday.
Edit: For comparison, here is what I see as normal (the last picture, number 24). It is just scabs and hair falling out, but most of what falls out is graft-like in appearance.