LondonRamen

9 minutes ago, Portugal25 said:

I booked a consultation with Dr. Ferreira on the 11th of November at 16.30h.

I will be driving 3 hours from Lisbon and I just need Dr. BF note to be allowed to make this trip.

We have 120 councils on lockdown so people living in these "high risk" councils can only leave their respective council if they have one of many justifications like a Doctor note, work note, movie tickets, etc. 

The distance between councils is nothing which is why a movie ticket is enough to cross councils.

in these 120 high risk councils restaurants close at 22.30h (with 6 people max at each table) and shopping centers close at 22h. 

The police are making control checks in several council borders so trips across councils can be a pain. 

It´s not really a Lockdown 2.0 because the impact is very mild as we can all go about our daily lives as the goverment is mostly asking for common sense to reduce new cases.

woops double post.

14 minutes ago, Londoner7 said:

I was also considering to still go but i think most flights are going to be getting cancelled and i did not want to risk holding the date and then having to cancel on the same day if im denied or my flights get cancelled late. Also i would be coming back the day after surgery and i read that fue to less flights it may be delayed 1 or 2 days to get another flight but by then i will be swollen lol. 

Doo you need any paperwork for the medical exemption, i still have my tap air flights so maybe i could try still go if the dr has my date still, also in Portugal as we are coming from the UK i did not think we needed to do a corona test just the pre entry form? 
 

 

Well, my tap air flights haven't been cancelled yet, though that may change who knows. Now that Lockdown 2.0 has officially started, I can see that carriers like ryaniar are still accepting bookings to fly out even this weekend...

From my research, it appears the government themselves are not cancelling flights in the UK/Portgual. Rather they are placing restrictions on travelling on the passengers themselves which may cause many passengers to cancel their flights. With less passengers flying the airlines may cancel some flights so that they operate on a reduced frequency. This may mean they move your flight around 1/2 days. However, mine is still on track. Even then, if many passengers are still flying the airline may not cancel any flights. My sister just sent me pictures this morning of the the terminal for Air Vietnam full to the brim with passengers... So they're clearly not cancelling their flights.

In terms of entry, I think it depends, but I think porto counts as mainland portugal which according to the below means I can still enter fine as I am UK national. There's a chance they may conduct a screen on arriving at porto airport but I'm not sure. Dr Ferreira says he will conduct a covid screen for me the day before the surgery though if they don't do one for me beforehand though at the airport etc

https://imigrante.sef.pt/en/covid-19/faqs/#1596230931926-35f82bfa-7209

In terms of restrictions from leaving the UK, the government only advises against all but essential travel. However, they also say what is 'essential' is not legally defined and that they leave it up to your common sense such as health, education or work. I will take the health route and just show them my medical forms with the Dr confirming my surgery date if they ask. I may actually ask him to write me a letter confirming I am in the country only for surgery and not to 'holiday'. Indeed I don't plan to be holidaying but stuck in work, which I can continue to do as a remote worker.

16 hours ago, Londoner7 said:

Sorry Dude due to the lockdown in England for November I had to reschedule to January as travelling is banned. 
 

I will still post my experience but will be January now. 

I actually have my surgery scheduled with him in November too! But I will still be flying. As I understand it, from reading the rules I can still fly with a medical exemption. Also I will be there for a long stay (6 weeks) as I am remote-worker so I am not holidaying which is banned, but rather 'living' there throughout the entire lockdown period and continuing my work. As I am from the UK, the rules in portugal are that I can still enter if I wish, but they will conduct a covid-screen upon entering. Dr Ferreira says also he will be conducting the screen the day before the surgery if for some reason I don't get one at the airport.

7 hours ago, aaron1234 said:

You can see the multi-haired mini grafts dead center in the front.  He's had this fixed and his hairline has softened since then.  

ah yeah, I would say it does look bad here. As you say, he may have had some extra work done to make it look less pluggy these days as I think it looks alright now.

is Biden's plugs bad? I didn't even know he had one. Sure he's got thinning hair and bald crown he's trying to cover up by slicking his hair back, but what dude his age doesn't have a thinning hair or bad crown??? It doesn't look that unusual to me as it's not a straight hairline and he has a somewhat recessed temple area. Looks normal to me when i google it and I only know he had a transplant because of this forum.

12 minutes ago, Rolandas said:

They are definitely using microscopes as they have 2 of them in the room. I've seen techs checking them while dr. Ferreira was extracting grafts. It's pretty synchronised. One tech is moisturising my donor, taking extracted grafts and giving to other 2 techs that are checking them under microscope and someone is constantly updating graft count on the iPad to show it on a big screen for dr. Ferreira to see.

Thanks for your reply. I've booked in with him for November 17-18. I'm not as keen on putting my face out there on the internet, but I will try to see what I can do about making a thread since he does not have much threads on this forum yet.

Does Dr Bruno use a microscope to evaluate extracted grafts or is it eyeballed by technicians/himself?