Sperm Retrieval - Post-op Recovery

I spent the next few days after my op off-sick (woohoo, time away from work!) I was advised to rest, no driving, no lifting. (Following the op, on the drive home, I did find it a bit uncomfortable, so there wasn't any chance that I'd be driving myself anywhere soon.)

The Mrs took a couple of days off to look after me. I can be a stubborn patient, but she did take it to some next level (for instance, she wouldn't allow me to carry anything.) She assisted with my twice-daily 5 minute baths, but she couldn't bring herself to look at the wound for the first day or so (admittedly it wasn't pretty.) I had no information on how many days I should be bathing, but I carried on with it for five or six days after the op.

My wife was incredibly angry with me at going through with the procedure. But I had to. Of course I had my doubts whether it was worth it, but I had to know for sure that there was nothing going on, and to be certain that I had tried everything medically possible.

Since the results were negative, I'm glad that we had already decided a few days before the procedure that we would follow the adoption route if this was true. I'm glad that we had discussed this, since it made our post-op decision much easier and quicker.

I know that for others in our situation, having a biological child with at least one person involved in the process is desirable. It was actually the Mrs who convinced me to think that adoption was our preferred option. Her argument was forceful: if only one of use could be involved in the process, it would be unfair to the other who couldn't. By adopting, we're in the same boat - neither of us is biologically involved.