He Rushed To Save His Son’s Life, Then A Doctor Quietly Told Him He’s Not The Father
There’s heartbreak, and then there’s this: when the floor drops out from under your entire life in a matter of hours.
One moment, he was ready to donate part of his liver to save his son; the next, he found out the child he’s raised and adored for four years isn’t biologically his.
Now he’s grieving a family that still exists, but not in the way he thought. And in the wreckage of it all, he’s trying to figure out what comes next when love, loyalty, and blood no longer line up.
He’s 26, and his wife, also 26, met when they were in school. Four years ago, they welcomed their son into the world.
“He had to be rushed to the hospital a while ago because he somehow managed to get into my wife’s sleeping pills,” he explained.
“She swears she put the lid on properly and put them in her drawer, but he somehow found them and managed to open the child-proof lid and took a lot of them.”
“He went into acute liver failure, and we were told he would possibly need a transplant. Obviously, I said I’d do it, and they did all their tests, blood, tissue compatibility, etc.”
When the tests came back, the doctor said there was a discrepancy, and he was not a match. The doctor stated he had to speak to him privately and separately from his wife.
His wife balked at that, which puzzled him, but now he understands why his wife didn’t want him to speak to the doctor alone.
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He finally did talk to the doctor, who informed him that his blood type is O, yet his son is AB. This means the doctor was subtly trying to let him know he’s not the father of his son.
“He probably couldn’t tell me outright, so I asked if that means it’s impossible that I’m his biological father, and he said yes,” he said.
Not wanting to cause drama at the hospital, he went home, even though he would have preferred to be there with his son.
Luckily, his son has rebounded and his liver is recovering, so he no longer needs to have a transplant. But he went from worrying about his son’s life to finding out his son isn’t even his, which is a lot to process in such a short amount of time.
He’s acted like his son’s dad for the last four years, fully believing that was the truth.
“I still haven’t gotten any answers from her, and I don’t really want any. I know she slept with someone else, and the kid isn’t mine. That’s all I need to know,” he continued.
“I moved out and let her stay at the house because she has him, and I can’t kick him out of his house. I’m currently staying at my mother’s until I can figure out what to do for the best.”
“I’m not really good with my emotions, but I can admit this has hit me hard. It feels the same as when my best friend passed away, even though I haven’t lost anybody in that sense this time. And I really don’t know what to do. I’ve lost my wife and my son at the same time, and it’s been over a week since it happened, and I still have no clue what to do.”
His wife has been blowing up his phone, sending him texts, and calling him. She’s begging him to allow her to explain her side of the story.
She also said the other guy didn’t mean a thing to her and she only has love for him, but he’s not interested in what his wife has to say.
There is nothing his way can tell him that will make him want to stay with her, so there’s no reason to hear her out.
“But I can’t just abandon my little man. I’ve been his dad his whole life, and that doesn’t just go away because we haven’t got the same blood. But it also means I have no right to see him when I divorce my wife,” he added.
“I feel like a complete idiot for not seeing anything wrong. The chances she cheated on me once and got pregnant are low, so realistically, I know it had to be something that happened a few times.”
“And I didn’t suspect anything. I didn’t suspect the kid I had raised for 4 whole years wasn’t actually mine.”
What advice do you have for him?
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