'Her mother had a fit': Caring father stands up for his daughter when superstitious mother refuses to pay for their child's life changing surgery because it's scheduled on her own birthday

Jesse Kessenheimer • Writer and Editor

Jun 16, 2023 1:00 PM EDT

Birthday obsessives are the bane of everyone's existence and we all have that one friend who can't stand it when people don't worship them once a year. Some random childhood trauma created the birthday-obsessed adults that we see today and, even though it's just a regular day marked on the regular calendar, folks get a little crazy about the anniversary of their birth. Like Disney adults, birthday obsessives tend to be emotionally immature and crippled by the fantasy of the world revolving around them for at least 24 hours every 365 days. In this case, one birthday obsessive, the mother of a chronically sick child, took her enthusiasm about her own birthday to another level, decimating her daughter's future in the process.

The little girl's primary parent was her father, a caring, stable man who had helped guide her through years of strep throat, sickness, and ear infections. When they learned that there was a surgery that could improve her life forever, the dad didn't hesitate to snag the first date available on their surgeon's schedule. And guess what day that fell on? You guessed it, the birthday-obsessed mother's biggest day of the year. Scroll for the full story (and the full flip out) that came out of this birthday mess. This mom won't be counting candles on her birthday this year, she'll be counting the number of times her call goes to voicemail with her estranged daughter.

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