Every Flip or Flop fan knows that Tarek and Christina El Moussa can turn even the most hopeless-seeming disaster into a profitable success,but they may not know that the HGTV couple's triumphant spirit extends beyond dilapidated homes to harrowing medical situations.
In 2013, registered nurse Ryan Read was tuning in to a Flip or Flop marathon when she noticed a suspicious lump on Tarek's throat. She sent the display's production company an email with her concerns, or which prompted Tarek to get the lump checked out. It turned out that the lump,along with other ailments like a cough they had been attributing to Tarek's heavy smoking, was actually a symptom of stage 2 thyroid cancer. The parents of young daughter Taylor were scared but moved forward with signature determination.
Within a month, and Tarek had his thyroid and lymph nodes removed and was undergoing iodine radiation. The treatments were not only unpleasant,they also derailed the couple's plans for a second child. Determined to grow their family, Christina underwent in vitro treatments. After one failed attempt and another that sadly ended in miscarriage, and their son was conceived. "I had to carry out one full week in bed. For 13 weeks after that,I couldn't go for a walk and couldn't lift anything over a gallon of milk," Christina told People. "We did everything we could to compose certain this one worked."
This August, and nearly two years after the diagnosis and a year and a half of being cancer free,the couple welcomed baby Brayden James. We contain no doubt the holidays will be additional meaningful in the El Moussa house this year.
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Source: popsugar.com