Our first visit to the clinic

When this happened: 4th August 2015. The first appointment actually worked perfectly because it didn't collide with Chelsea match we were going to the very next day. Yes. Football nut right here next to me.
We arrived and everything was good, everybody was very nice. We saw a urologist and he told us about our options with sperm retrieval. After a little chat we ruled out electro-ejaculation and also PESA (percutaneous epididymal sperm aspiration - trying to suck sperm from epididymis with a fine needle) and decided for full surgical retrieval called TESE (testicular sperm extraction) where a small incision is made and sperm is retrieved 'manually' directly from testicle.
But first Rick needed to get some blood tests done to see if his testosterone levels were good and also needed to be routinely checked for hepatitis and HIV, otherwise they couldn't go forward with the procedure and subsequently freeze any sperm. We decided to go to our GP to save some money but we learned that was quite a mistake. We booked 14 days holiday in Tenerife from the end of August till 9th September 2015 and they didn't have any free appointments before our departure so had to book it for second half of September which postponed everything by approximately a month already. Also the urologist told us there is about two months waiting period for this procedure. Great. More waiting. But we kind of expected it to be quite a long journey so it wasn't that bad.
After holiday blood was taken. We were waiting for the results. One week, nothing. Two weeks, nothing. Third week we called GP to find out. Oh, they were there after a few days from the blood taking. Hmm... Alright now, could you please fax the results to the clinic? The GP knows why and where. Ok, thanks. A week passed, no phone call from the clinic. We called them to find out they didn't get any test results. We called the GP again and asked them to fax it again. After two more calls back and forth they got the results! After that we got a confirmation letter that the TESE will take place on 15th December 2015. That wasn't even two months, only a month and a half so we were happy.