“How could this be happening to us again?” Chris Coble says about their family’s heartbreaking trauma
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- Lori Coble lost her 3 children in a deadly car crash in 2007; a few months later, she and her husband Chris learned they were expecting triplets
- Last summer, Lori was diagnosed with stage 4 brain cancer
- Multiple surgeries have extended her life, but “I don’t know how long that is,” Chris tells PEOPLE
Lori Coble was in standstill traffic on the freeway on May 4, 2007, when a big rig slammed into the back of her minivan. The mom from Orange County, Calif., had been driving home to put her three kids — Kyle Christopher, 5, Emma Lynn, 4, and Katie Gene, 2 — down for a nap. None of the children survived the crash.
Devastated, Lori and her husband, Chris Coble, made a pact not to end their own lives and to support each other through the traumatic aftermath. They mourned their children deeply and still wanted to be parents.
After exploring adoption and failing to reverse Chris’ vasectomy, they pursued IVF. They were left with three viable embryos: two boys and a girl. “Exactly like we lost,” says Chris, now 54…