3 weeks & 3 days...

Sorry I didn't post for a few days. Didn't have enough time!
Anyway, everything seem to go pretty well, but my recipient area is still numb. According to Prohairclinic, it is normal and must disappeard soon.
The most annoying thing is the fact that the shedding of the new hait has started a few days ago, as you can see on today's pictures...

Day 17, back to the swimming pool!

Today, I went back to the swimming pool!
One of the most disturbing thing in this story was for me to stop sport. I'm practicing a martial art and I'm used to go to the swimming pool once a week. But after the operation, you have to stay calm...No sport for the 2 first weeks, and no contact sport for the first month. Anyway, today I was able to go swimming and IT WAS GREAT TO DO SPORT AGAIN!
Today's pictures:

Day 13

Here are today's pictures:

Day 12: back at work!

Sorry I didn't post anything yesterday but I was very tired in the evening. Anyway, yesterday was my first day back at work!
Nobody noticed anything! Nobody at my work has already seen me with my hair cropped, so they didn't noticed I had more hair. And for the redness, I told them that I had a sunburn and an allergy to a solar cream and it seems to be very credible ;-)!
I'll try to take pictures this evening!

Day 11

After today's shower (20 minutes again!), almost all the crusts are gone :-)! It feels really good to not look like a freak anymore and to have more hair than before!



With the flash of the camera, you can see that my skin is a little red, but in reality, it is really less noticeable!
Besides that, I'm really beginning to have a lot of dandruff...According to Bart, it is normal and the newly implanted hair will soon follow :- ( ... After that I will have to wait several month to be able to see it grow again!

Day 10: today's pictures

Here are some pictures taken today:


The crusts are starting to fall when I take showers.
20 minutes is a bit long, but if I want the crusts to fall, I have to do it each day!

Back from holidays!

I came back from holidays yesterday evening!
Sorry but I didn't take a lot of pictures of my skull during those days:

Day 6:



Day 7:



About this week, I can say that the first shower at day 5 has been really nice!
Today I really cannot feel any disconfort anymore. My donor area is still a little sensitive sometimes, but it is very very highly bearable!

I'll try to post later in the day with new pictures!

Day 3, I'm going on holidays...

I'm going on holidays in a few minutes, so I won't be able to post anything for about a week. See you in a few days!

Day 2

Today is the second day after the operation. No problem at all. I slept quite well this night (almost 12 hours) and I use the aloe vaera spray Bart gave me to help with the healing on both recipient and donor areas. The aloe vaera still stings me a little bit in my donor area in a few places but it is highly bearable.
Yesterday evening, my forehead got a little bit swollen, as just after the operation, but after a good long night of rest, it returned back to normal. Staying up for a long time seems to increase this phenomenon. I've just taken the following pictures, and, maybe you can't see it well, but it got swollen again, but less that yesterday.

I'm back!!!

I came back from Belgium a few hours ago!
The operation went along all the day, yesterday, but I could watch some DVDs and everyone was very nice (especially Bart and Dr Ilter)!
First, Bart came at our hotel a 7.15 am and drove us to the clinic, then, after a few paperworks a few pictures, I got my hair cropped, and everything began.
In the morning Dr ILTER took about 2100 grafts from my donor area...Totally painless. Then at about 2 pm, it was the time for lunch. My wife was waiting for me, and we ate some sandwiches.
After, that, we got back to work! First the anestesia (that was the less painless part, but it was really bearable), the Dr Ilter, made the incisions, and after that, his assistant doctors put the grafts...
It ended at about 7 pm. And Bart drove us back to our hotel.

Here are the "before" pictures:

And the "after" pictures:


About the pain...I didn't feel anything unbearable, and even the fisrt night, I slept well (I took a Dafalgon before sleeping to be sure...). I frightened myself ths night, at about 10.30 pm: I was so stressed out about not hurting myself that I always look at my skull level...And didn't watch out for the toilets which were in the middle of the pass in the bathroom of the hotel room...I bumped my foot in it, and I hurt my head in the door :-( . Not very hard, but enough to bleed a little (about 5 - 10 seconds) but fortunately no graft has moved!
Now, I have to wait for about 9 months / 1 year to see the final results! It will be so long...

Last hours...

Well, I'm leaving for Malines in a few hours and I'm beginning to freak out a little bit!
See you in a couple of days after the operation which is tomorrow!