Wednesday, February 01, 2006

Switch to low-beams!

(Disclaimer: This post is about sperm. If that's TMI for you then you should probably just come back another day.)

A very brief post for you all about my experience on Monday (Zach here).

I had to go in for a semen analysis. Why let Jody have all the embarassing procedures, right?

Regarding my visit to produce a sample, let me just say:
  1. It was fine. Not as bad as I'd expected (although a little blush-inducing when I checked in with the perky 27ish female receptionist).

  2. The comfy chair and magazines in my little room were appreciated. The 80-kilowatt non-dimmable fluorescent lights were not.

Got word back today on the results. To quote the nurse, I have excellent sperm. Specifically:
  • There were over 101 million of the buggers in the sample I gave (they generally want to see at least 20 million). I like the extra 1 million over 100. Feels like insurance or something.

  • 57.5 % of them were moving with rapid progression. I guess the other 42,925,000 of them were tuckered out.

  • Only 10 percent of my sperm were abnormally shaped! (Well within the preferred 5-14% range.) Woohoo!

2 Comments:

Anonymous Torre said...

Well, it wouldn't be right if you didn't have *some* abmormally-shaped ones....what else could account for the "unique" Knower genetic pool!

Can't believe they didn't have dimmable lights...obviously designed by some clueless, perky 27-ish woman.

If you ever get short of cash, you now know you've got a fall-back. Some of my male graduate student friends supported themselves quite handily through grad school by donating. We women were of course exceedingly jealous. What other job pays $60 for 15 seconds of fun?!

February 3, 2006 10:58 AM  
Blogger Zachary said...

only 60 bucks?

February 3, 2006 3:40 PM  

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