Mahair, I understand that Darkly had quite an abundance of hair and it was somewhat controvertial as to whether he "needed" a hair transplant but that was his desire and it's hard to live in someone elses shoes. He was quite adamant that it was his decision and he definitely wanted it done regardless of any other opinions. But in my personal situation, when you trade in a $3000/yr x 8 years HCM piece of carpet for some real hair, the hundred fold improvement, to me at least, was an understatement. There had to be at least, on a good month, at least one humiliating experience every month I wore that rug. As stated before, I had the first hair transplant 7/27/05 and the 2nd 9/14/05 and I will document everything including the good, the bad and the ugly. But there can't be much worse in life than wearing fake hair and having people not look into your eyes anymore, they are checking out that thing on the top of your head. I hope darkly comes back and lets us all know what he decided.