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   Andy Wingo (wingo@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Sep-2023 17:49:30 JST Andy Wingo

   am getting my partner a v nice present for our wedding anniversary: 🎉 a vasectomy 🎉

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     Steve Purcell (sanityinc@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Sep-2023 17:49:33 JST Steve Purcell

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     @wingo In Wellington there was both a hair salon and a vasectomy clinic called "Snip" and I always wondered if anyone had mixed them up.

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     Andy Wingo (wingo@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Sep-2023 17:49:35 JST Andy Wingo

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     here in france it takes a couple months at least to get the first appt with the urologist. (i did not know that urologists were the ones to do this. my grandfather was a urologist and i thought he just did urinary tract infections? apparently they do many things? i am a grown adult and yet v ignorant)

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     Andy Wingo (wingo@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Sep-2023 17:49:35 JST Andy Wingo

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     then there is a legally-mandated 4 month waiting period! like doctor i have three kids. make it stop

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     Andy Wingo (wingo@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Sep-2023 17:49:37 JST Andy Wingo

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     so my surgery is in a week. apparently is just outpatient surgery under sedation (not general anaesthesia). some countries normalize the idea that it is reversible but france’s official line is that it is definitive, apparently; reversal operations are like only 50% successful apparently?

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     Andy Wingo (wingo@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Sep-2023 17:49:37 JST Andy Wingo

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     and then! it is not immediately effective; you have to take a sperm count 3 months after to verify that, you know, life doesn’t manage to find a way.

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Sep-2023 17:49:38 JST clacke

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     @wingo Here at the family clinic it's just local anaesthetic.

     I went to the urologist first and he said he'd do it in the hospital under sedation. No thanks, that's over 1000 USD just for the sedation and the anaesthetician, far more than the surgery itself.

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     Andy Wingo (wingo@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Sep-2023 17:49:40 JST Andy Wingo

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     this is not a lewd account but i should mention that apparently sex life is unaffected: the ejaculate liquid is still there, just without sperm.

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     Andy Wingo (wingo@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Sep-2023 17:49:40 JST Andy Wingo

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     anyway this thread is for cishet men because i am sure trans/etc people are already aware of all the biology here. it is not right that women should have to be responsible for contraception and more men should consider the scissors! ✂️✂️✂️✂️

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     Andy Wingo (wingo@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Sep-2023 17:49:42 JST Andy Wingo

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     operation was yesterday, am feeling pretty good today, walked kids to school :) back to work, even!

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     Andy Wingo (wingo@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Sep-2023 17:49:44 JST Andy Wingo

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     • Robin H. Hansen

     @robinheghan only superficial, the kind you get after anything that requires stitches. nothing deep. a bit of an annoying place to have stitches, of course ;)

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     Robin H. Hansen (robinheghan@snabelen.no)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Sep-2023 17:49:51 JST Robin H. Hansen

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     @wingo any pains?

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     Will T (wjt@mastodon.me.uk)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Sep-2023 17:49:54 JST Will T

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     @wingo I had a consultation for this earlier this year (before cancelling for uninteresting reasons). They were adamant that it would be impossible for me to work for a minimum of 48 hours after the procedure. "But will I be able to sit at home and use a laptop?" "Sure, of course." 🤔

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     Emmanuele Bassi (ebassi@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Sep-2023 20:38:32 JST Emmanuele Bassi

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     @wingo Same thing for the NHS here in the UK; the official docs are very much: "this is not reversible, and even if you decide to save up for IVF there's no guarantee it'll work, so no take-baksies, mmkay"

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