Hair Graft – One Week Later

Quickie update …

For the first time in a week,

I’m actually starting to feel normal again.

The back of my head still hurts,

Nothing overwhelming by any means,

Heck,

If I’d take a simple painkiller,

It’d probably go away.

But I don’t,

So it hasn’t.

The donor site has definitely been the area creating the most discomfort.

I’ve lost feeling back there,

For a while I guess … though it’s supposed to return,

However,

It’s creating flashbacks of when I lost feeling in the top of my scalp following my ffs.

I like having feeling in my scalp,

So I’m anxious for it all to return again.

The graft site is really healing well.

There are only a few areas where you can see scabs still,

Though it’s bumpy.

Being color-blind,

I personally cannot appreciate that the graft area is considerably less red than it was following surgery,

But my mom says that the redness has pretty much subsided and it looks much, much better.

Despite its appearance,

The graft site really hasn’t been uncomfortable at all.

It’s also been considerably easier to maintain and treat than I imagined it would have been.

(Those procedures will be described in further detail when I finish the post on the hair grafting procedures.)

I still have little hair stubs poking out of the transplanted follicles …

Too phunny looking !!! lol

Apparently they’ll start to fall out any day now,

I’ll keep you apprised of their status.

All in all,

Though the visuals have apparently disturbed many of you …

The grafting has really been nbd,

And totally worth it so far in my opinion,

The lip augmentation on the other hand,

Sucks.

I have got to learn to remember how much I hate lip augmentation !

Fortunately,

My lips are starting to recede finally,

Which is nice.

Though don’t get me wrong,

I still look like:

1. Per my nephews, Jar Jar Binks; or,

2. Per one client, a Simpson’s character of sorts,

But at least the lips aren’t stretched so much they hurt,

Which they were hurting.

However,

I have been brutally reminded of something else …

That I had forgotten about when it comes to lip augmentation,

Which is …

Whenever I get lip augmentation,

I end up having a serious outbreak of cold sores.

At last count,

I have five separate cold sore outbreaks on my upper lip alone.

Two of them are phreaking huge, too !!!

Unfortunately,

Because of the throbbing, persistent discomfort associated with the lip augmentation,

I didn’t feel any of the outbreaks developing early enough in the process to implement the best home remedy ever for combating cold sores,

So they pretty much became full-blown cold sore outbreaks.

Bummer.

Amy’s Cold Sore Home Remedy: As soon as you feel the outbreak occurring, place ice on it for a good 15 minutes. I usually just let the ice cube melt to nothingness. Being the obsessive sort, I ice the cold sore risk area for 15 minutes every hour over the course of a few hours. It’ll usually kill it off. But you’re not done. If you do kill it off from that outbreak location, stay clued-in to the cold sore tingle returning. It usually tries to make a comeback attack a day or so later, in a different area. It’s phreaky how predictable it is in that sense. When the comeback attack begins, respond the same way with the icing. Usually if you win that second battle, most of the time you’ve won the war.

Amyways,

That’s the one week later update,

I’ve scanned in the post-op instructions which I’ll upload when I finish the post on the procedure itself,

And I have yesterday and today’s pics to upload yet too,

But I have to go earn a buck now.

Update: Ummmmm, I uploaded Day 6 and Day 7 pics and they look all blurry. Sorry. Obviously I don’t clean the lens on my mobile phone camera nearly as frequently as I should. I’ll try to do better. 🙂