Patient Letter to Dr Rassman

Every now and then I’ll receive an email from a patient years after seeing them and it brightens my day. I thought I’d share this one I just received…

Dear Dr. Rassman,
I am [name removed for privacy] and I had a procedure for almost 2 years now (2280 grafts).

WELL!!! By looking at every single FOLLICULAR UNIT you had transplant onto the front of my head, I couldn’t tell that I had a hair transplant. Man, that is how good you are. I am so glad I got you as a Doctor. It changed my life forever because I feel more comfident about myself now and a lot more of the man I know I am because of you, Dr Rassman.

You know what my dream is Dr. Rassman? My dream is to have another TRANSPLANT from you but my girl friend doesn’t let me because she witnessed what I been through and she was so scared. To me I feel great and I would do it over and over again. I guess she just cares for me too much and I thank you GOD for that. Who ever reads this, please bear with me. It sound like I am a super pussy. Maybe, I will do it again without letting her know. If you do my surgery, that would give me more motivation to convince my girl friend to let me have another procedure.

Thank you for all the staff. You are part of my life.

What a nice letter. I can not tell if you are worried about pain from the surgery or from your girlfriend who may not be backing you for a second surgery. If you are worried about any pain, since your last surgery, we have made substantial changes in the anesthesia protocol we use with the use of a medication called Versed. This medication is a type of narcotic which does make the local anesthesia far less painful if you had trouble with it before. We have also added a stronger narcotic for the first night when the muscle spasm hits so that the first night is more tolerable for those who experienced pain. With these changes, you should think twice about any pain fears that I think you are expressing here. With regard to your girl friend, well most men either have wives, girlfriends or significant others and these folks do get involved in decisions we make like undergoing still one more transplant.

For the blog readership: this patient has agreed to let me post his photographs and he will be coming to see me shortly so that we can not only discuss the email posted here, but also take recent post-surgery photographs so that we can all know just what he is sooooo excited about.