A Vasectomy Question?

From memory and don't quote me on this, as it was over 20 years ago I had it done, but before I had it done they took a sample of my semen to test it then when I had the vasectomy it was about a month later I had to go back two have my semen tested again, I do remember one thing very clearly though which may help, is the bruising after it, I found and don't laugh, that using an un opened bag of frozen peas really helped.this was in Australia and I'm uming your in the US, but I don't know if they do things the same way over there as there are different ways the doctor can do it. anyway I hope this is of some help to you.