Masturbatorium!!! I can't wait to tell DH that one.

He is always referring to his 2x2 cubicle. He dealt with it all quite well, but his first experience was a shocker.

When I first went to my gp to get things checked out, she sent DH for a sample just to rule out MF issues. The clinic was in an old house next to a hospital and commercial offices, and when he walked in all the nurses and female staff were obviously trying to make him feel comfortable by greeting him by his first name straight up and calling out to him from their kitchen and stuff as he walked down the hallway. They led him into the bathroom (just like a bathroom at your nan and pops place he reckons) and then told him when he was done to take his paper bag out the backdoor, across teh back yard and through a HOLE IN THE FENCE into the labs behind the house. He felt like such a devo. And to make matters worse....no 'reading material' supplied at all. Poor bugger.

He wasn't very happy when only a month later our newly acquired FS sent him for another one coz he didn't trust the first one. But his experiences with our clinic have been an improvement on his first.

Can't say I know what they call the little room though. I don't think it has a name! I do know that it faces another doctors reception room which has clear doors. That freaked DH out a bit, but he soldiered on.

As for how he is treated by the clinic staff....wonderful. He and our FS stuck up a pretty good relationship and were always jabbering on about fishing etc, to the point where I would be lying on the table, legs assunder, wondering when anyone was going to realise I was even there

And when I had to go back to the same hospital for surgery a few months after DS was born, DH took him up to see the girls and ended up feeding him in their staff room and chatting to them all. Did that on two occassions, and they always knew who he was and were always very interested (wonder if it was the fire brigade uniform??? Ahhhhhh, now the penny drops! Haha).

There were times when he felt that it was more all about me than him, and not about us as a couple, but they were few and far between, and always when he was feeling a bit touchy about the whole experience.

They are definately as much a part of the whole experience as we are and should be treated accordingly.