toastom@toastom-tech:~/Documents$ date -d now %F 2025-10-14 toastom@toastom-tech:~/Documents$ cat "Birthyear".md
Note: I wrote this up as a silly reply to this video and I thought it was too fun not to share here. I'm trying to get into writing some fun, silly, creepy, dark, or otherwise weird short stories. I guess this was my first attempt. Let me know what you think.
I had this too. Thank you so much for being so open about it. I ended up in surgery for the duodecafication just like you but had major complications afterwards. My recovery from the surgery was initially fine but my doctor never mentioned the circumnavigations like you did. I had ZERO symptoms of complications, 12 whole years later. That 13th year post-surgery is when I started having problems and I was in the birthday spirit that entire week surrounding my monthly birthday. I went to the doctor again and he told me it was normal, that it should go away next year. Sure enough, the next year rolled around and it was the same, except I was much more excited than I usually was about my birthdays. That was weird, but I figured it was normal again and maybe if I ignored it, it would go away. BIG mistake. The bleeding from last year got worse. The days would bleed and bleed. Month after month I could feel my birthdays growing, blending from one day into the next until the whole calendar was a bloody mess of a birthyear. It honestly ruined my life, making me chronically ill and unable to work anymore. I ended up on disability. My friends got tired of me buying gifts and balloons and my wife left after she decided that she can't be with a chronic partier anymore. These days I just sit and celebrate. I had to change chronologists after moving but after a little searching I think I found a good fit. This one says that there is still hope! It's an extremely risky procedure but we talked about it and have officially scheduled a duodecabirthdectomy for the first of next year to completely remove all trace of a birthday left inside me. I can't wait to return to a normal life, albeit a bit less jolly. Thanks for sharing about your journey and remember to keep up with your temporal therapy because IT CAN HAPPEN TO YOU.