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Weird Question about Surgery
Sun, 09/21/2008 - 14:56I am going to be going through a Right Temporal Lobectomy. How do people deal with the Hair cutting aspect of Surgery. I mean I have longer hair right now. Do they just Shave one side of your Hair in Surgery and then they leave the other side long? I don't know anything about this and am just curious. How did you deal with this when you when though your surgery?
Leah
Re: Weird Question about Surgery
Submitted by Wendy07 on Tue, 2008-10-14 - 14:46
Hi Leah,
I had always had long hair before my RFL surgery and was very very sad about having my hair shaved off. At first, one nurse told me they could shave half my head, the 2nd nurse said no way the surgeon to be on the safe side (infection issues) would shave the WHOLE head and that to trust her it would be better that way. Turns out she was right. My whole head was shaved and Im very very glad it was. I had 2 surgeries a week apart. After the first one (to implant the grids and strips) the drain didn't work very well and my head dressing was changed a couple of times a day. I can't imagine the gooey mess if only half was shaved (a lot of oozing bloody mess). This way too, it all grew back uniformly. Incredibly surprising to me is that I like my short hair. I NEVER thought I'd like it and was totally worried about it. Just glad I was asleep whent they shaved it though! =)
It's really up to the surgeon how he/she will shave your hair.
Good luck. I think you'll be surprised that it won't be as bad as you think.
Best Regards, Wendy
Hi Leah,
I had always had long hair before my RFL surgery and was very very sad about having my hair shaved off. At first, one nurse told me they could shave half my head, the 2nd nurse said no way the surgeon to be on the safe side (infection issues) would shave the WHOLE head and that to trust her it would be better that way. Turns out she was right. My whole head was shaved and Im very very glad it was. I had 2 surgeries a week apart. After the first one (to implant the grids and strips) the drain didn't work very well and my head dressing was changed a couple of times a day. I can't imagine the gooey mess if only half was shaved (a lot of oozing bloody mess). This way too, it all grew back uniformly. Incredibly surprising to me is that I like my short hair. I NEVER thought I'd like it and was totally worried about it. Just glad I was asleep whent they shaved it though! =)
It's really up to the surgeon how he/she will shave your hair.
Good luck. I think you'll be surprised that it won't be as bad as you think.
Best Regards, Wendy