“Good for him. I feel like this kind of piece goes a decent way to de-stigmatizing things like hair transplants and other male-pattern baldness treatments,” echoed someone else.

Others were stunned by the prospect of the first surgery taking over 13 hours to complete. “I was wondering if I misread it and it was cumulative, but nope: 1 surgery took 8 and a half hours, and another took 13,” someone wrote. “This guy is having 13 hours of hair surgery?” added another.