SCHMOE'S Personal Journal

It was a pretty scary trip for me the 1st day, as I've never been out of the US, but the 2nd day is a LOT more comfortable now that I understand my surroundings.

I'm staying at the Rockland Inn. I believe theres actually 2 of them. I'm setup in the far one right now, but they're moving me to the one right next to Dr. A's clinic tonight.

Day 2 went smooth. Once again his facility is very comforting so it really helps calm the anxiety from going halfway around the world.

I was a virgin scalp so this is all new to me. It's pretty exciting looking in the mirror afterwards and seeing the scabs along the 'hairline' and thinking 'Wow, this is where my hairline is going to be, it hasn't been at that spot in 10 years' lol.

one snag I hit was Bank of America Denying my funds because its 'unusual spending'. Let me tell you how scary THAT was when it's 11pm in the states, customer service is closed and I'm sitting here with no money (!!)
I'm going to document this whole visit so if any of you come down to India, you will have all the points covered (including the super secret Bank of America 24 hour collect call phone number, woot!)

Boomboom, whats that espresso shop you were talking about? also, did you go sightseeing while you were here? I'm still a little lost to everything outside of Dr. A's clinic and my hotel.


Dr. A said he will attach some pictures very shortly

I believe we did a little over 1000 grafts today, being that I'm a redhead, it appeared that i had less donor hair, interesting fact though that Dr. A told me; Nature makes up for this by having MORE hairs in less follicles, there were a large number of 3 and 4 grafts today.

we also did BHT from the leg, I'm not sure of the exact number, I will post that amount later, or maybe Dr. A can when he uploads my pics

oh yeah.. my luggage decided to take the late flight in... thank god they showed up today.

once again, thanks for all the support, pictures will be posted shortly!

Per Dr. Arvind:

Day 1 -
699 scalp grafts (plus 18 transections)

Day 2-
827 scalp grafts + 230 leg hair grafts (plus 19 transections)
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BEFORE PICTURES


before


before


donor site against a 24 guage needle


immediately post op


immediately post op


immediately post op
Video: Leg donor area BEFORE extraction showing the 2 and 3 hair FUs
http://www.hairsite.com/images/ht/38799a/MOV07932.MPG

Video of the scalp donor area after extraction. According to Dr. Arvind, the 24 gauge needle juxtaposed in the video clip is 0.55 mm in "outer diameter"
http://www.hairsite.com/images/ht/38799/MOV07962.mpg

Also see the entire forum discussion at
http://www.hairsite4.com/dc/dcboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=12&topic_id=38799&mode=full