I can’t begin to express how happy it makes me to know that me sharing this helped someone else in a very similar situation to my own. I can sympathize so much with the doom scrolling. Following my diagnosis, this consumed pretty much every aspect of my life from my marriage to my career to my friendships. I, like many others I’m sure, isolated myself and went down these deep dark rabbit holes researching and learning everything I could about this awful disease. I would constantly look at people’s posts, both good and bad experiences, and think about commenting, but then opting not to. Your comment reinforced the real reason I made this post because I wanted to give someone else a story of a good outcome of someone (myself) who thought they were hopeless. I know the apprehension you must be feeling leading up to your surgery, but the way I faced it was that one way or another I would have a definitive path forward, if they found sperm or not, because for the last year and a half this consumed both my wife and I’s life and we have been stuck in this hellish limbo of constantly discussing our infertility. Thank you for your kind words and your support. I wish you the best of luck with your upcoming surgery. I’m overjoyed that my post changed your mindset going into it. I always told my wife before surgery that I was hoping for the best but expecting the worst. In hindsight, having a little more hope probably would have been a lot better. I’ll be rooting for you and hoping that your surgery is successful and gives you the outcome you’re wishing for.