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Good luck! It will be so nice for you not to have to worry about it once he recovers.

Best of luck and congratulations! I'm so envious that you'll soon won't have to worry about any 'accidents.'

I'm probably too late, but good luck and make sure to stock up on movies!

Thanks guys!

Hi prugie

My GP referred us to Dr Phil Airey. He's at the Merivale Medical Practice in Merivale Mall. He's done nearly 8000 vasectomies now, and my SO was the 4th of 10 that he had booked on Friday!

It was $70 for the first consultation, where he described the operation and any possible side effects etc. We were able to book his op only 14 days later.

The whole appointment was only half an hour, and it cost $300. Wow, Dr Airey got $3000 just for doing vasectomies on Friday. I'm in the wrong line of work!

After the op, we spent the weekend watching movies and making wedding invitations. The Descent freaked me out heaps, Serenity is still awesome, Mad Max still makes no sense, and Apocalypto is brilliant!

I think my SO is still a little uncomfortable now, but there was no bleeding or anything, and he's back at work. Much much easier than if I had a hysterectomy!

Yes! No 6-week-plus recovery time for vasectomies! Glad that everything went okay for your husband!

Oh, and a little article where Dr Airey is quoted...
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So glad everything went smoothly. Thanks for the update and congrats!

Hi Decided
Glad it all went well, this no scapel technique sounds great. Thanks for the name, we have been to family planning and did the pre consult with the nurse, and just have to ring to book in and get it done. It's handy to know someone else who will do it though should we face any resistance. My husband (26) is not quite ready to take the pluge, he needs time to go through with it, but he's sure he doesn't want kids, it's just going through with the procedure, he's heading towards being ready though!

Sounds like he's thinking it over seriously though, which is nice. :o)

It took my SO a few years to do it. We always knew that we wouldn't have kids, but I guess we just got complacent because I can take a magic pill every morning!

I'm glad he's done it now, and I'm really proud of him. We aren't telling people in RL though. We're not really up to the arguments that we'd have!

Yeah.. I've thought about what I would do about that (telling people). Really it's none of their business, but I'd be interested to see how they react sometimes! Like, would it be better to wait for 10 years and if they still say "oh, you'll change your mind" you can say "Well actually, I made my mind up 20 years ago and he had a vasectomy 10 years ago!" or just say now when they bingo us "actually we've taken care of that" or simply "we can't" which wouldn't be lying, just wouldn't be telling them why! It must be terrible for people who naturally can't have kids who want to when people always go on at you - people you don't actually know who think it's their business. I just get so sick of people saying that we'll change our minds... Sure anything can happen, but it's highly unlikely we will change our minds! They are our minds after all, I think we know them better than others!