{"id":1519,"date":"2006-05-19T09:44:51","date_gmt":"2006-05-19T14:44:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amynews.com\/?p=1567"},"modified":"2015-10-08T17:35:33","modified_gmt":"2015-10-08T21:35:33","slug":"hair-graft-one-week-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amynews.com\/2006\/05\/hair-graft-one-week-later\/","title":{"rendered":"Hair Graft – One Week Later"},"content":{"rendered":"

Quickie update …<\/p>\n

For the first time in a week,<\/p>\n

I\u2019m actually starting to feel normal again.<\/p>\n

The back of my head still hurts,<\/p>\n

Nothing overwhelming by any means,<\/p>\n

Heck, <\/p>\n

If I\u2019d take a simple painkiller,<\/p>\n

It\u2019d probably go away.<\/p>\n

But I don\u2019t,<\/p>\n

So it hasn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

The donor site has definitely been the area creating the most discomfort.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve lost feeling back there,<\/p>\n

For a while I guess … though it\u2019s supposed to return,<\/p>\n

However, <\/p>\n

It\u2019s creating flashbacks of when I lost feeling in the top of my scalp following my ffs.<\/p>\n

I like having feeling in my scalp,<\/p>\n

So I\u2019m anxious for it all to return again.<\/p>\n

The graft site is really healing well.<\/p>\n

There are only a few areas where you can see scabs still,<\/p>\n

Though it\u2019s bumpy.<\/p>\n

Being color-blind,<\/p>\n

I personally cannot appreciate that the graft area is considerably less red than it was following surgery,<\/p>\n

But my mom says that the redness has pretty much subsided and it looks much, much better.<\/p>\n

Despite its appearance,<\/p>\n

The graft site really hasn\u2019t been uncomfortable at all.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s also been considerably easier to maintain and treat than I imagined it would have been.<\/p>\n

(Those procedures will be described in further detail when I finish the post on the hair grafting procedures.)<\/p>\n

I still have little hair stubs poking out of the transplanted follicles …<\/p>\n

Too phunny looking !!! lol \"-)\"<\/p>\n

Apparently they\u2019ll start to fall out any day now,<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll keep you apprised of their status.<\/p>\n

All in all,<\/p>\n

Though the visuals have apparently disturbed many of you … \"-)\"<\/p>\n

The grafting has really been nbd<\/a>,<\/p>\n

And totally worth it so far in my opinion,<\/p>\n

The lip augmentation on the other hand,<\/p>\n

Sucks.<\/p>\n

I have got to learn to remember how much I hate lip augmentation ! \"-)\"<\/p>\n

Fortunately,<\/p>\n

My lips are starting to recede finally,<\/p>\n

Which is nice.<\/p>\n

Though don\u2019t get me wrong,<\/p>\n

I still look like:<\/p>\n

1. Per my nephews, Jar Jar Binks; or,<\/p>\n

2. Per one client, a Simpson\u2019s character of sorts,<\/p>\n

But at least the lips aren\u2019t stretched so much they hurt,<\/p>\n

Which they were hurting.<\/p>\n

However,<\/p>\n

I have been brutally reminded of something else …<\/p>\n

That I had forgotten about when it comes to lip augmentation,<\/p>\n

Which is …<\/p>\n

Whenever I get lip augmentation,<\/p>\n

I end up having a serious outbreak of cold sores.<\/p>\n

At last count,<\/p>\n

I have five separate cold sore outbreaks on my upper lip alone.<\/p>\n

Two of them are phreaking huge, too !!! \"\"<\/p>\n

Unfortunately,<\/p>\n

Because of the throbbing, persistent discomfort associated with the lip augmentation,<\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t feel any of the outbreaks developing early enough in the process to implement the best home remedy ever for combating cold sores,<\/p>\n

So they pretty much became full-blown cold sore outbreaks.<\/p>\n

Bummer.<\/p>\n

Amy\u2019s Cold Sore Home Remedy:<\/em><\/strong> 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\u2019ll usually kill it off. But you\u2019re 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\u2019s 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\u2019ve won the war.<\/p>\n

Amyways,<\/p>\n

That\u2019s the one week later update,<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve scanned in the post-op instructions which I\u2019ll upload when I finish the post on the procedure itself,<\/p>\n

And I have yesterday and today\u2019s pics to upload yet too,<\/p>\n

But I have to go earn a buck now.<\/p>\n

Update:<\/strong> 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. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Quickie update … For the first time in a week, I\u2019m actually starting to feel normal again. The back of my head still hurts, Nothing overwhelming by any means, Heck, If I\u2019d take a simple painkiller, It\u2019d probably go away. But I don\u2019t, So it hasn\u2019t. The donor site has definitely been the area creating…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[139],"tags":[],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":139,"label":"General"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"Amy","author_link":"https:\/\/amynews.com\/author\/amy\/"},"comment_info":8,"category_info":[{"term_id":139,"name":"General","slug":"general","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":143,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":775,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":139,"category_count":775,"category_description":"","cat_name":"General","category_nicename":"general","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}