We got home from our trip on a Wednesday and Ryan went in for surgery on a Thursday. This time he worked with Dr. Limmer to get some new eyebrows. Dr. Limmer and his staff are so wonderful and welcoming. And they do amazing work. It was all done in the office with local anesthetic. It was completely pain free. Ryan slept through most of the procedure. They removed a section of skin from Ryan's beard and sewed him back up. (I was in the office and watched them do this. First time I've ever been allowed to watch a surgery. Wow!) Then they put the skin under the microscope and removed each hair follicle. Next, they planted each follicle in Ryan's eyebrow region and Ryan had eyebrows! Apparently, the hair will grow for a few weeks and then all the hairs will fall out. It will take another 3 or 4 months for the hair to grow back and then we'll see what worked and what didn't. We expect he'll have another round of hair transplant to fill them in at that time.
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Less than a week later, on July 1st, Ryan had surgery on his right hand. They put a small graft on his palm, did some z-plasty between his thumb and index finger and index and middle fingers, and released some tendons inside his hand. Surgery went well and Ryan is feeling fine. He has a cast on his right hand to immobilize and protect the graft. He'll have the cast until the 23rd.
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