Cruel reactions force parents to remove baby’s rare birthmark

Denied surgery
The NHS denied the surgery as they usually deny any surgeries that are not essential for a person’s physical health. They considered the surgery cosmetic not crucial.

In just 24 hours, the parents raised $52,000 for the surgery. Unfortunately, this amount was not enough as hospital costs had skyrocketed after the COVID-19 pandemic and the young parents needed $27,000 for the surgery.

They turned to GoFundMe again to help with the added costs for their daughter’s birthmark removal surgery.

“Everybody has things they’re insecure about on their body, and the doctor said he’d respect that, but with Vienna, it wasn’t going to affect her mental health right now. But we didn’t see it as that, she’s going to start school when she’s three, and younger kids are so smart, they point out stuff like that,” the worried mother reasoned.

Now, the little girl is three years old, and her birthmark has been entirely removed, the only evidence of it being a tiny scar on her forehead. Her mother Casey will usually share updated on her daughter’s healing process and comment on how ‘gorgeous’ her baby girl is.

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