Healing has been more of a challenge than I expected. And yesterday I found part of the reason. Apparently, post-op someone neglected to remove one of the small staples that was put in my scalp just above my right temple. I was having these little sharp spasms of pain in that area. I went to a walk-in clinic locally and they removed it. The MD told me there was no infection but that my body was trying to fight this foreign object in my scalp. Since then no more spasms of pain and I'm generally feeling better.