At one time when someone asked me to give them an example of "Waisted Energy", my response would be...."telling hair raising stories to bald headed men". Well today, that line is no longer valid.
On my first day at this hotel, I saw men in the dinning area with their heads wrapped in bandages, and the gents were walking stiff and with very little head motion.....as if they were in pain. sometimes, like this morning, there were five bandaged heads in for breakfast. When we were out walking one day, I asked my friend if she knew what was going on....and she did. These people were coming to Istanbul for hair transplants. As luck would have it, I was having dinner on the evening of December 26, when a gentleman came in and sat at the next table.......two meters away. When he heard me speak to the waiter, he started talking to me. He told me that he was from Prague, in the Czech Republic, and flew in today for a hair transplant. I had lots of questions and he had all the answers, and he was happy to practice his English.
Here is how it works, according to my new friend.....(I saw him on the 28th as he had breakfast before flying home.)
I fly here today and stay at this hotel. The next morning, someone from the nearby clinic will come and take me there for the surgery. At the Clinic, they place me on a gurney, strap me in place, lying on my stomach. They will shave my head, and a selected area of my back. There is two teams working on me, one on my head and the other on my back. Using exact measurements, the skin from my bald patch on the head will be replaced with an identical size piece from my back. I have been put to sleep so I will not know exactly what is happening. The procedure from start to finish will take about eight hours, and after an hour or so of awakening, I will be returned to my hotel. The set cost is three thousand Euros, and that does not include the air fare, and this hotel for two nights. I fly home, quite sore on December 28. I hope it is a smooth flight.
I am told this is the only place this type of surgery is performed. It is for cosmetic purposes only.
See you in 2022; Have a great, safe and happy New Year.
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