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Ooo. That's a really good point and I didn't even think of that. I can totally see that being an issue.
I thought I could just go to a fertility doc and they'd take care of it all for me, but it looks like I need to find my own bank and I'm just a little lost as to what all I need to do to get the ball rolling.
Search engine of your choice and enter "gamete storage [location]"
You'd probably be better off with a place than a mail-in service if you can swing it, "whether insurance will pay for it" depends very much on what country you are it, and if you do end up going with a mail-in service consider the fact that if you place your swimmers in your mail box, it will go to a distribution center before continuing on to whatever lab its headed toward and degrees and minutes count.
You can cut down that time they aren't temperature controlled if you are able to transport your package to the distribution center yourself and mail it from there, but then there's still the issue of where and when to get your gametes from you into the package.
You're right, that was my US privilege showing. My bad.
I am located in the US. In the state of Indiana - but I hear you. It really depends on location and my coverage whether I could get it covered.
I'm going to keep looking for a relatively close bank around me because a mail in kit does make me nervous. At bare minimum, I would definitely make sure not to start taking E until I knew for certain there were no issues from transport.