Have Sperm, Will Travel

It's 7:00pm Friday night. Michelle and I are on our way to a friend's house for dinner. I had just paged the midwife to let her know that I just got a positive LH surge test. And I receive a voice mail minutes later explaining that there was a mix-up and they don't have my sperm. Since the package didn't have my name on it, only the donors name, it wasn't recognized and was sent back to the sperm bank in Seattle.

Okay...so I'm ready for sperm and there's no sperm available. Why does this keep happening? After a long chat on the phone with the midwife, in my friend's living room, we decide that I will call the sperm bank and see if I can pick up the vials in person the next day. All the while Lisa and Brooks are camping and out of cell phone range, so they have no idea what's going on. I text Lisa the short of it just in case, and leave a message for the sperm bank since it's after hours.

The next morning we head down to Seattle after breakfast (after finding out that indeed, I can pick up the little swimmers in person). Once we get there the "gatekeeper", if you will, is running around semi-frantically to get the sperm for us and get a couple of donors settled into their donation rooms. After a short wait she says that she needs to go get the sperm from the cold room. I call Lisa to let her know what's happening since they came down the mountain to have cell phone coverage in order to help us figure out this debacle. We also find out somewhere in there that there is only one vial of sperm that has been found, the other one (the last vial) is floating in the tank and can't be found. We decide to go out for lunch while we wait to see if she can find the other vial. We'd like to go home with two so that we can try two IUIs (as is the usual) this month. The other vial was never found. 

We head home with one vial in a huge tank that looks like a big circumcised penis in our back seat, buckled in. That night (last night) we arrive at the clinic for the IUI. I carry the awkward tank into the lab room and set in down. There on the floor sits another tank. I ask the midwife if she's doing other IUIs this week, assuming it's sperm for someone else. Nope. Sure enough, it's Brooks's sperm. It was never sent back!!! And surprise, it's still good to use! We now have three vials of sperm.

After all of that, the IUI seemed to go really well last night. And we'll do another round tonight. Now I'm debating if we should just go ahead and use that third vial on Monday. Maybe there's a reason to have three?