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Pt. 2 - A New Look on the Horizon |
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I can't remember exactly what I wanted to touch on regarding body image issues but I can't imagine that they're any different from what I've been feeling over the past couple of years. xp
Honestly, with this new job and new schedule...I'm hoping to build the discipline to go to the gym in the morning, go to work, and eat right. That's gonna be a big try, but I'm hoping with the gym being just a bike ride/short jog away, I'll be able to make it there more often.
It's just hard scrolling through social media and seeing people respond in droves to these images of fit bodies and chiseled features...and then looking in the mirror like...Womp. scream gonk
I definitely want to invest in my overall image. Starting with this body and this hairline. My hairline has been slowly receding for years now. I finally went to Hair Restoration Specialist in Atlanta yesterday, a business that I've had my eye on for a long time.
When I got to their Sandy Springs office for my 2pm appointment, I had to wait for almost an hour. Definitely not a great way to start my experience with them and I immediately became concerned. Especially since no one really took the time to check on me or apologize for the wait initially. Alas, around 3pm I saw Dr. Marshall Boyd, the Surgical Director for HRS and the man in all the videos on their website. He did a brief examination of my hairline and said that there's still hair there, it's just thinning and he didn't recommend surgery at the time so he introduced me to Julia, the Clinical Director. They both apologized for the long wait time.
Julia took some time to educate me on the whole lifecycle of hair in a way that makes sense. She honestly could've been making things up the whole time but, again, it made sense to me. She said I have a healthy grade of hair and at it's healthiest I had between 2-3 strands of hair per follicle, but on average I have 2 strands per follicle and she started seeing instances of one strand around my crown. It made sense and aligned with what I'd been noticing, that at the front of my head the texture shifted and felt less strong and along the hairline, I'm starting to see the scalp and a lot of thinning.
She recommended the PRP treatment, a series of non-surgical injections of medicine to wake up those follicles that aren't producing as much and bring hair growth and density to my crown. I think she said its a 1-2 hours procedure done once every three months for 12 months and then one procedure every 1-2 years for the rest of my life apparently, for maintenance.
The price tag...$2500 for the 4 treatments. Apparently, one PMP treatment costs around $1000 so I'm getting a deal. This all actually seems like a lot.
I was actually very ready to seriously consider the surgery and start crunching numbers, but Dr. Boyd didn't recommend it and neither did Dr. Julia. According to them, the surgery will help the hair grow in new places, but my hair will still recede behind it, so they prefer to get the hairline strong and healthy before thinking about bringing it down. Boo stressed I scheduled the first appointment for Wednesday. I'm just a little concerned about coming back down here three more times in the next 12 months. I guess it's not too big of a deal, if mom moves before then I can stay with Brolin and try to book far enough in advance to get a super cheap roundtrip flight so it shouldn't be too bad. I'll go through with Wednesday's appointment and try to set the next appointment for Sept 12. Flights on skiplagged to ATL around that time are like...$100.
If this hair thing works out and this PMP treatment really does restore my hairline, I can finally be happy and move on to teeth bleaching.
I might be too lazy to be any type of social influencer or IG hottie, but if I ever wanted to...I want to make sure that I have the confidence to be somewhat successful at it. But also, I just want to be....a bit more jovial I guess. And I think this will help. My confidence and self-esteem have been in the shitter for a while now, and I think it's ok to want to devote resources to help that. But I definitely want to bring this hairline down in the future xd
Here's to hoping this PMP treatment fully restores my hairline. I can see some regrowth happening along the sides coming down, so I think I'll take a break from formal haircuts for a while and do a few buzzcuts over the next year (and maybe pierce tthese ears for added flare blaugh )
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Ryo
Mood: Decent blaugh Music: "Acid Dreams" - MAX & Felly
Ryonosuke · Sat May 30, 2020 @ 05:45pm · 0 Comments |
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