I Refused to Watch My Daughter’s Kids When She Had a Medical Emergency

From: Maria

Subject: I Feel Terrible That I Couldn’t Help My Daughter With Her Kids During Her Medical Crisis

Summary: My daughter called me in tears, her voice shaking with pain, just weeks after giving birth to her third child. She was begging for help, desperate for someone to watch her 3 kids so she could go to the hospital. I coldly told her to forget it – my evening plans were more important than her medical emergency. Instead, I suggested she drag her newborn and toddlers to the ER herself, ignoring her anguished pleas. My husband went behind my back to help, and we later found out she needed emergency surgery for postpartum complications. Now my family won’t speak to me, horrified that I abandoned my daughter in her moment of crisis.