Be a man get the Snip

Getting a vasectomy and the reasons why you should have the operation. My wife and I both agree that we only wanted two children preferably a boy and girl and that is what we ending up having; Layla & Tate. So we were then confronted with the decision on permanent birth control.

I think all women will agree that men should step up and get the vasectomy considering the fact they are the one’s giving birth and us men are only standing by there sides. I like all men in the back of my mind thinking I do not want any knifes going near the region of my testicles, I really was not impressed with the vasectomy idea. Of course I knew it was my place to step up and be a man also.

The day of my operation I arrived at the hospital at 8:00 am and started the paper work, signed a document stating that the surgery should be consider irreversible with a 0.5 percent failure rate. Then they showed me to my room where I had been waiting for approximately two hours and another patient showed up in the bed beside mine. Something I have forgotten to add is that I am in Belgium a French / Flemish speaking country. So anyway the man was wheeled out in his bed and returns 3 hours later and had an IV and a tube in his mouth with blood going through it. Then they tell me to get my gown on, well point to it anyway and I was unable to ask the other man what he had done. So off I went in my bed thinking the worst about this vasectomy.

Arrival at the doctor’s operating room and doctors asks are you ok (he speaks a little english), I say slightly nervous and he says everyone is. The nurse starts to prep me at approximately 1:00 p.m.; sterilizer, four blue papers around my groin then the doctor states he will now inject the local anesthetic. I started squeezing my fists tightly thinking the worst possible pain and the he done it, comparable to the same feeling you get at the dental office when they inject the anesthetic. Ok the cutting begins feeling nothing and can not see anything because of the blue papers but I do however see smoke coming from my groin still no pain just the feeling of movement down there. Then the doctor says that side is good and will inject the other side and do the same, the other side I only felt a more pulling sensation no pain. Ok so surgery complete in 50 minutes the doctor gives the brief about not playing sports for 3 weeks and prescribed two meds a antibiotic and pain killer and said I had to return for the follow up in 10 days then the nurses wheeled me back to my room. I was released within 30 minutes from the hospital and I was on my way home at 2:35 p.m.

Day one only a little sore nothing major (less soreness compared to a tooth extraction) and no problem urinating. Day two decided to have sex was thinking I would have pain when ejaculating but no pain at all just sore where the incisions were made, note take is easy during the sex if you do decided to go for it because of the stitches. Oh also wanted to note that when I looked at the incisions they looked around a quarter of inch in length and they did bleed a little not much however. Anyway the rest of the week the soreness just gradually faded away.

At my follow up everything was A ok and then he gave me an appointment for lab work which is scheduled 2 months after surgery to check the sperm and make sure there is 0 level left. So I think you know what has to happen at that appointment, so I will be taking my wife along hopefully it’s allowed.

Follow up lab work: guess what you do not have to do you no what at the doctor’s office you do it at home and then bring it with in two hours. Test back two weeks later and I am sterile and happy with my two kids.