Donor experience?

After ttc naturally the last 6 months, we are now looking into sperm donation. My husband had cancer in his early adult years and the chemo drugs he had to use completely killed his sperm (cisplatin and etoposide). In order for his insurance to cover fertility testing we had to be trying for 6 months. He already told me when we first started dating that he was sterile but we still used protection for while until we would risk it when in the heat of the moment. Never had a positive test, though a few pregnancy scares. Then before we got married we had the conversation about the possibility of becoming pregnant naturally. We stopped using birth control all together and still nothing, and finally we got the results confirming his sterility on Monday. I have conflicting feelings about it, I'm relieved it's not me and that he was right all along, but pissed that he won't be able to have his own children and that he was persuaded years ago to not freeze any of his sperm.

So, that leads me to the decision to use sperm donation. It's expensive, even with insurance so it will be a year or more before we will have enough saved for the process and time to work with fertility specialists.

I want to know if anyone else went through with sperm donation, what your experience was, your advice, and if it was an easy process with you insurance company?

Thanks ladies! My husband and I are very excited about having a child and are happy to wait a little longer for our baby dreams to come true 💗