Bald is Beautiful

I know that losing your hair is usually more difficult for women; so much of women's social image and self-image is tied up with their hair and how they look with it that it is very difficult to lose it.  For men, I think there is less emotion with this, although I'm sure that varies from man to man.

For me, one of the nice side-effects of the transplant is that I barely have to shave (I shaved today, first time in 3 days), and I think my head looks pretty good.  So, bald is beautiful, I say!

I had more energy and felt better this morning, so I think I overdid it a bit.  This afternoon I've been a bit shagged.  But we are moving in a positive direction.  We have a follow-up visit at the BMT clinic on Thursday.  I'll let you know how it is looking.

Here I am today:

And to give you all a reference point (because some have been asking me):

Red Blood Cell Count    Normal range:  42-52    My last score was 26.1 I think?
Platelets                          Normal range:  140-440  My last score was 21 or so, if I recall.
Absolute Neutrophils      Normal range:  2.2 - 4.8     I hit this one out of the park the day after my last neupogen shot, at 4.7  I expect that number has now dropped.  It was at 0 for quite a while.  The 500K threshold I mentioned before would be 0.5 on this scale.

So, I still have a bit of ways to go, but I hope my numbers look better on Thursday.

And that's the latest!