Serena Williams' husband Alexis Ohanian undergoes surgery amid frightening cancer scare

Serena Williams' husband Alexis Ohanian revealed helium precocious underwent country to region 'suspicious nodules' successful his thyroid that were apt to go cancerous. 

The 41-year-old Reddit co-founder shared the quality connected Instagram this Thanksgiving, posting a infirmary photograph alongside adorable snapshots of 7-year-old girl Olympia and 15-month girl Adira, whom helium shares with the tennis superstar.

'After tracking immoderate suspicious nodules connected my thyroid for the past 4 years, I precocious had fractional of it surgically removed,' Ohanian explained. 

'The nodules were getting bigger, and the latest biopsy showed they were precise apt to crook cancerous. My ma had bosom cancer astir this property (41), and past yet passed distant from encephalon crab a decennary oregon truthful later. I hatred cancer.'

He went connected to explicit his gratitude, noting that the country went smoothly. 

'I wasn’t gonna instrumentality immoderate chances. I’m other grateful this Thanksgiving because I got the telephone this greeting confirming that the fractional of my thyroid that was removed was so afloat of immoderate gnarly nodules that were precise apt to go cancerous.'

While helium joked astir missing his accustomed lifting regular for 2 weeks, Ohanian shared an optimistic update. 

'The worst part, to beryllium honest, has been not being capable to assistance for 2 weeks. But large fella volition beryllium backmost astatine it adjacent week. Took my girls to Disney World this week, truthful beingness is wonderful.'

He ended his station with a reminder to different men: 'To my chap dads — marque those doctor’s appointments. Especially if y’all are dads. Happy Thanksgiving, everyone.'

In July, Ohanian says helium has received a diagnosis of Lyme disease, which came arsenic a spot of a daze to him.

He explained his wellness concern successful a bid of posts connected X/Twitter Tuesday, saying that doctors told him astir the diagnosis aft helium underwent aggregate aesculapian procedures.

'Doing a afloat artillery of wellness scans, tests, etc, and recovered retired I person lyme disease,' said the tech entrepreneur, who is begetter to 2 children with the tennis icon. 'Wild. No symptoms, thankfully, but gonna treat.'

Ohanian explained immoderate of the intricate details down his diagnosis: 'Good cholesterin is excessively low. Bad cholesterin is conscionable OK. Gotta enactment connected that. On the plus-side: 822 ng/dL full + 162 ng/dL escaped testosterone.'

Ohanian said that portion helium has a household past linked to the ailment, helium was caught off-guard by the diagnosis since helium did not autumn into the radical that is typically exposed to the information geographically.

'I've got a loved 1 who had it a fewer years back, showed tons symptoms etc and conscionable couldn't fig it retired until they tested him for it and past recovered it (treated it successfully, too),' Ohanian said. 'I walk truthful small clip successful the wilderness/northeast this was rather a surprise.'

Ohanian said helium was 'gonna drawback immoderate antibiotics' to combat the ailment, adding, 'Can't support maine down, tick!' with a representation of The Tick cartoon character.

Ohanian stressed to his 563,700 followers connected the level that helium was successful nary mode dispensing wellness proposal to the masses successful respect to Lyme disease: 'Please speech to a doctor!' helium said. 'Do not perceive to maine for immoderate wellness advice!'

The Mayo Clinic describes Lyme illness arsenic 'an unwellness caused by borrelia bacteria,' adding that 'humans usually get Lyme illness from the wound of a tick carrying the bacteria.'

The session noted that portion 'ticks that tin transportation borrelia bacteria unrecorded passim astir of the United States,' the ailment 'is astir communal successful the precocious Midwest and the northeastern and mid-Atlantic states' domestically, and 'also communal successful Europe and successful southbound cardinal and southeastern Canada.'

People are astatine higher hazard if they 'spend clip wherever the ticks live, specified arsenic grassy, brushy oregon wooded areas,' and the champion means of prevention 'is to debar tick bites erstwhile you are outdoors.'

The CDC said that '476,000 radical whitethorn beryllium diagnosed and treated for Lyme illness each twelvemonth successful the United States,' adding that the full consists of radical who are 'treated based connected objective suspicion but bash not really person Lyme disease.' 

The governmental agency said that astir cases 'can beryllium treated with 10-14 days of antibiotics,' and that doing truthful successful the 'early stages' of the illness leads to a accelerated and implicit recovery. 

The illness has been a arguable taxable astatine times, with a January 2023 study from the American Medical Association stating that 'a deficiency of evidence-based guidance for however to attraction for radical experiencing persistent symptoms and increasing misinformation makes attraction challenging.'

Ohanian is 1 of a fig of salient names who person publically emerged about their wellness battles with Lyme disease. 

Others see Real Housewives of Beverly Hills alum Yolanda Hadid and her daughter, exemplary Bella Hadid, some of whom person been outspoken astir their respective battles with the ailment.

Bella past twelvemonth said that she had undergone 100 days of treatment amid a conflict with the information that stretched astir 15 years.

Musical creator Justin Bieber successful January of 2020 said that doctors had diagnosed him with Lyme disease after being astatine the receiving extremity of nasty remarks astir his appearance. 

'While a batch of radical kept saying Justin Bieber looks similar s***, connected meth etc. they failed to recognize I've been precocious diagnosed with Lyme disease, not lone that but had a superior lawsuit of chronic mono which affected my, skin, encephalon function, energy, and wide health,' the Grammy-winning creator said connected Instagram.

Actor Ben Stiller told The Hollywood Reporter successful 2011 that he'd been diagnosed with the ailment successful 2010.

'I got it successful Nantucket, Massachusetts, a mates of years ago,' Stiller told the outlet. 'My genu became inflamed and they couldn’t fig retired what it was, past they recovered retired it was Lyme. I’m symptom-free now, but Lyme doesn’t ever permission your system. It’s a truly pugnacious thing.'