Dr. Jones' Hair Transplant Center Blog

Tuesday, April 04, 2006
James, Day 2

Last night I slept at 45 degrees on a lawn chair in our sun-room. There was no pain or discomfort other than
a slight ache in the donor area from the pressure of my head against the
pillow. I don't think I had a deep sleep but did doze off for an hour or two
at a time. I finally got up about 9 AM and had some breakfast. No problems
eating or enjoying food. Following breakfast I soaked my head - it was still
tight and had areas of numbness. The numbness could be the result of the
pain killers. Anyway my hair felt like it was held down with glue and I
wanted it back to normal (clean and shiny). The 20 minute head
soaking got rid of a lot of the blood spots but didn't do much in the way of
cleaning my hair. I'm not allowed to touch my hair until day 11 - using a blow
dryer with no heat to dry and style my hair. Looking forward to Day 11. The two photos I have
attached show a clear change since the day of the surgery. I cleaned up a lot. You can see the tiny follicles in the
after soaking photo. I'm having my second soaking tonight.

Otherwise I have had a fairly active day. Other than taking my medication, I
retreived a dead skunk from the back yard, wrestled with the changing of a
clogged water filter (we're on a well and drove my daughter to the Go train.
On the way to the train I opened the moon roof to enjoy the sun and quckly
closed it thinking it probably would not be good to get a sunburn on my
head. As well on the way to the train I popped into the local movie rental
store and mustering my altogether composure walked right in picked out a
movie, placed it on the check out counter, looked the owner in the eye and
gave him a friendly hello and my phone number. He never said a word other
than hello, that will be $5.00 and goodbye. I said goodbye and left the
store. Hmmmm?