It's 1813 hours here in AZ, this morning I removed the bandage around my head so I can see the donor area. There is a bunch of small red dots and for 650 grafts the spread of the donor area is incredibly small, without focusing too tightly so that it will not affect my hair density in the back. I had no pain at all yesterday and today and did not take any pain medication. There is no bleeding from the donor or recipient areas and it seems everything is healing incredibly well. I washed both donor and recipient areas in the shower without direct shower pressure.
In the recipient area there are scabs and tiny little hairs of different lenghts poking out. The area is also a little red but is not totaly red and I can see my skin color between each graft.
When I look closely the density of transplant hairs may be prefectly matched with my local hair density which would give me an awesome natural result, even if not all the hairs survived it would still be a great improvement on my overall apearance so I am very optimistic.
The best part is when I look in the mirror I have hair where there used to be none and I can see how my hairline will look when fully grown. In the future my hairline will prefectly frame my face and at this point the large forehead I have is totaly proportioned now.
This has been something that was bothering me my whole life since i was young, although it is kind of vain, but some things just bother you. Partly because my dad and my brother both have perfect straight hairlines, I was wondering what happend to my hair.
Honestly it never held me back form anything in life, (was married, had beautiful girlfreinds who accepted my wierd hair, freinds don't give a crap) but I think the confidence is what is really the exciting part. I don't know but my hairline I felt like was the one thing I felt about myself that I did not like about me, which is a sad thing to say. Honsetly I thought I was going to live my whole life this way and I'm just thankful that it is even a possibility to fix.
Now, I'm just lounging at home eating healthy food and playing video games and sleeping was not a problem, also I am not experiencing any swelling issues due to the anesthetic. Will post some low quality pics sometime and try to get the ones from doctor alexander. Thanks for listening