The bad
Well, it's CD1. I had kind of hoped not to see any more of those for a while.
The good
I think we have a way to insulate ourselves from forgetful FedEx drivers and stroppy pancreases! After the FedEx debacle of last month, The Package showed up way too late for insemination. But it did arrive, and my momma always said "waste not, want not". So here we were with a vial of sperm and no place to put it ("NOT FUNNY" said B, when I waved it in her direction).
Of course, we were curious as to how well the sperm had survived 53 hours of travel. The answer: extremely well. And since we had it right there, B decided to try a little experiment in DIY cryopreservation.
The buffer it's shipped in is basically the cryopreservation buffer minus glycerol. So she added the right amount of glycerol and froze it down.
One week later she defrosted them and they looked damn wiggly. In fact, while she had them up on the slide, she did a count and came up with an extremely impressive 100 million/ml, with approx 66% motility. Those are damn fine numbers for fresh, and even better considering that's post-thaw.
So: a possible solution to scheduling/medical/shipping/ovulation-guessing mishaps! We're still going to try with the fresh, but it will be immensely comforting to know that, in case of emergency, we have a stash no farther than B's lab.
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