Father Finds Out He’s Infertile, Recognizes Who His Kids Look Like

Rose J. Regalado

Something In Hiding

“Kate hounded me for years,” said Richard, who has since remarried. “She wanted me to pay more.” But his main concern was his children’s well-being.

As long as they didn’t want for anything, Richard would just let the lawyers deal with the rest. But there was something Kate had been keeping from him that would completely change how he felt about the situation.

Time Will Tell

Eventually, things between him and Kate ended up cooling down. Even though the divorce still stung a little, the battle had finally been laid to rest.

Or at least, that’s what Richard thought. Until that one day, almost 10 years after the divorce, when he scheduled a routine check-up with his doctor that would end up changing his life.

The Doctor’s Revelation

When he walked into the doctor’s office that day, he never dreamed he would be finding out something that would shake him to his core.

Not in a million years could he have expected that what the doctor would say would open up the conflict between himself and Kate again, which he believed to be over a long time ago.

Hard To Swallow

Richard was expecting to be told he should watch his cholesterol, maybe cut back on the alcohol. But the doctor’s tests had revealed a far more serious diagnosis.

Richard had cystic fibrosis. But the father-of-three didn’t have a second to take the already painful revelation onboard before the doctor dropped another bombshell on him that would reduce him to tears.

Life-Changing

Receiving the news that he would have to live with a debilitating disease had knocked Richard for a loop. For a few minutes, all he could do was stare at the floor, trying to come to terms with the news.

Cystic Fibrosis causes regular lung infections and gets worse over time, reducing the patient’s capacity to breathe. How was he going to tell his new wife? But that wasn’t all.

His Sister

Richard’s sister had succumbed to the genetic disease several years earlier, so the worried father’s mind quickly flashed to the danger his children could be in of inheriting the condition.

But the next piece of news the doctor had to reveal would set his mind at ease about that – before opening up another can of worms.

Small Relief

Much to Richard’s relief, the doctor assured him there was no way he could have passed the disease on to his sons. But the reason why that was the case would be more devastating to Richard than the diagnosis itself.

Understanding this would be hard for him to swallow, the doctor took a deep breath before explaining why genetic transference of the disease simply couldn’t have happened.