Chapter 7 - The donor file that did not exist
The clinic’s independent forensic audit found that donor D-418 existed.
That was important.
Real man.
Real screening.
Real donations.
But the vial inventory did not match.
According to cryobank records, D-418 supplied twelve vials.
Eleven were accounted for across documented shipments and storage.
One remained stored until later destruction under policy.
Our treatment record claimed two D-418 vials were received by Vale Reproductive Medicine.
The cryobank had shipping documentation for only one.
The barcode number recorded on Maddie’s conception cycle did not match the cryobank’s manufacturing format.
Someone created it locally.
That was bad.
Then auditors found a handwritten notation in a retired embryology supervisor’s scanned notebook:
“AV private transfer / Bennett.”
No donor number.
Date:
Two days before my successful treatment.
AV.
Could mean Adrian Vale.
Could mean something else.
The lab supervisor was alive.
Her name was Carol Jensen.
Seventy-two.
Retired in Arizona.
She agreed to speak through counsel.
“I remember Dr. Vale bringing a vial himself.”
“From where?”
“He said it was an approved directed donor specimen.”
“Did you verify?”
“I asked for paperwork.”
“Did he provide it?”
“He said his office would upload it.”
“Was it uploaded?”
“I don’t know.”
It wasn’t.
She remembered something else.
“The vial label had been replaced.”
My lawyer asked:
“Was that normal?”
“No.”
There.
Still not proof of donor identity.
May you like
But the chain had broken.
────────────────────
