Welcome to the group Cliff! We have to get you in touch with a user on here named NavDoc so you can share your experience with the hair transplant. He is going through many of the same things that you allude to. Not having gone through the procedure myself, I think you can help him far better than anything I could ever say.
Thanks for joining our not-so-secret society. It is fastly becoming a second home for me and I hope it does for you as well. The water is warm and so are the people.