tthabet…
Thanks for the comments man… Well appreciated …
Now to your questions…
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Those pics were taken during my follow up visit in early 09 (not sure exactly when Id have to call the client and see if the visit is documented somewhere), which make it about … a little over a year and a half…
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This is the question i found interesting actually… Socially hiding …
You see the doctor says about a week and you look normally facially (no more swelling and stuff). Thats timeline is real, and when to stop wearing the medical cap, i think about the same (from my memory), and the sleeping upright I think its under a week…
BUT …
It depends on you mentally… you see with certain things (locking the front door, my microphones, counting the money I have on me, my morning schedule, etc… I can be pretty compulsive… and with the [post off instructions I exxaggerated EVERYTHING by 5 almost LOL. I mean I dont think it did anything, (kinda like you can put more min if you want but it wont do anymore, type of thing), in the reccommended time…
I wore the med cap for a month, slept upright for the same, hats? NEVER, I never wore a baseball cap because; first mentally i just got something to AVOID CAPS!!! LOL, and secondly I dont wear caps in general and I was scared that the rough material would scratch the grafts.
- Difficult? depends on the way you look at it. Because of my job (in the studio) … I technically apart from natural sunlight, friends, alcohol and you know… women… there is no need to go out! (damn i forgot sex … I know it happens inside most of the time but you have to go OUT to get it if you are single lol… back on point…)
… So i mean I didnt leave the confinds of my studio for at least 3 weeks…
- When I started going out, as I mentioned in my story… I ALWAYS WORE THE HAT (even when the hair grew in… If i saw redness I had the hat). Im a bit of a outgoing joker type so I loved the hat… reasons to have fun with people, get a little sympathy, make good intro conversations… etc… lol
Honestly, you get used to it and its nothing after… its kinda fun… frankly I think I have “blue medical hat” withdrawl…
- It wasnt difficult, not was it as easy as all doctors probably claim… it very, very “different”. The after is also important that you have a friend/girlfriend/boyfriend/parent whatever… help you with the drops as to not accidentally touch the grafts.
You have to be very strict on your routine for the drops, and keeping the grafts AWAY FROM DIRT, and BE CAREFUL OF YOUR HEAD… no bumping… I remeber seeing a pic of a guy who bumped his head… damaged the grafts and they didnt grow in … poor guy…
The bottome line is tthabet… its the sensation of looking at yourself in the mirror WITH THE GRAFTS CRUSTED that excites you… Why u ask? because u see (in a wierd way) FULLNESS!!! a new hairline, it doenst last (they fall out) but you get excited because you see what you will look like…
Its AFTER that you must be strong… because when they fall out… thats when you look exactly as you did PRE OP… and it was mentally a bit shocking to me… its kinda like seeing a very fast transformation of yourself… kinda wierd because its literally like this…
before gentle washing of grafts you are Ricky Martin, after gentle washing, Homer simpson LOL
Other than that tthabet…
Go for it man…
Seriously I mean its that mentally feeling that i cant explain… but ill try …
Before you walk in the clinic for your procedure… you are nervous as heck… minutes before VERY NERVOUS, wondering why you did this? are you ready? was it the right choice… then it hits you!.. damn this, I paid already and its gonna happen!, needle goes in, STILL NERVOUS… then after about an hour…
A MASSIVE SMILE takes over your entire face…
In a few hours… you life will be completely different…
You become excited that a new world WILL IN FACT OPEN FOR YOU … I mean the funny thing is that what the doctor cant explain is that feeling that even though you look like you just called Mike Tysons mom a cow (with the inflammed eyes)… you IMMEDIATELY CHANGE
im DEAD SERIOUS…
You change… you become as you were when young… you become a monster of confidence and, things smell better, look bright, sound crisper…
I know this is cheesy but whether anyone says this or not it doenst matter… we all felt it.
I wish you all the best in your decision… but i have to tell you this…
When my confidence shot through the roof… i couldnt contain kt… I walked into the studio… without the legal rights to a song that was on the most sold album of all time… made a remix of it, and got it contact with one of the writers of a now deceased performer, and receieved the right to proceed with the song…
Oh and the funny thing is… that sNOTHING… the stories I have from what I overcame at my age … is astrnomical…
I know this sounds harsh bt its the facts… you are resaerching this meaning that you are now PASSED the point of being interested…
now its a question of WHEN… I remeber being where you are… your decison has already been made, now just take the next step to changing your life… I cant begin to tell you what it feels like…
And in terms of whom top go with… as I dont knwo the other doctors all i can tell you it that the way I was treated, dare i say loved? and respected at the Armani clinic… all I can say is that it very obviously appears that Im not the only one who feels that way…
All the best to you tthabet
Cheers
MoM
