Thanks for this informative post. I am looking at FUE in May 2015 and will probably have the work done on a Thursday and go back to work on the Monday 12 days after.
I wear my hair at buzz cut (no guard) at the moment, so I am not concerned about redness, that's other people's problem, not mine. Mostly it's the ability to keep hair at level 1 at most.
I'm very happy to hear you can trim it down after a few days. I will wait for the very day I go back to work do to that, so hopefully the scabs will be gone too.