Honestly, given how bad the US is at public health, the one thing we have going for us is that we’re good at chemistry.

Glad to hear that you’re home and (hopefully) feeling better.

Mazel tov

“For the men on the line cross your legs and whistle – can’t they just stick a needle in there and extract some sperm instead of going through this rigamarole? I mean, it’s still in there right? Why ya gotta go through this to do this the old fashioned way? Just numb it up, pinch pinch, ice down”

They sometimes do extract sperm during the process but it’s not that reliable and they may not get enough. My understanding is also that the material they get isn’t as usable for in vivo implantation so you have to pay for in vitro fertilization, which ain’t cheap.

Alao,once you have cut the balls open to go in, you’ve incurred a lot of the time and costs and effort so you might as well try to get the factory working.

Make sure he keeps his sack iced afterwards.

Is this the fertility procedure that you have mentioned previously or something else? I only ask because a friend on govt insurance had to go through several iterations before the hospital agreed that her insurance covered her hospital fees. Her insurance did not cover the actual procedure but covered everything around it but the hospital kept insisting that nothing was covered.