...I got an email yesterday from our cryobank saying that they now offer local pick up. We purchased sperm from Cryogenic Laboratories, Inc, which is based out of Minnesota, but they were bought by Fairfax Cryobank which is only about an hour away. I called CLI yesterday to ask if there was any way to ship our entire storage supply to Fairfax so we could have it available for local pick up. The wonderful customer service representative that I dealt with said that she was pretty sure they could but she would double check and call me back today to confirm. She called and said that not only would they be able to do it, but they would do it for free!! So all 12 vials of our sperm are en route to Fairfax for storage. This saves us about $190 in shipping costs per cycle!
I have my blood work and ultrasound on Monday, my final presentation at school, and then I'm going to pick my daddy up and we're going to ride down there and "pick up the grandkids" as he says. We'll drop them off at the doctors office on the way home and we'll be all set for Tuesday morning if they trigger me Monday night. I know it's probably weird that I'm taking my dad to pick up sperm, but my parents have been so insanely supportive through all this and I like to make them a part of the process when I can. Bill will take me down for the actual IUI so I figured it'd be nice to have dad help run this little errand.
We're getting so close and I'm really, really trying not to get my hopes. It's not working out well!
Oh, wow, that is awesome! We shipped all of our vials to our clinic at once to save shipping costs, but now we're paying storage fees there. Local pickup would be fabulous!
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