NFL Star's Wife Speaks Out After Terrifying Brain Surgery - 'Truly God's Work'
Kelly Stafford, the wife of Detroit Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford, is recovering from brain surgery to remove a tumor.
The surgery went twice as long as expected, but was successful and Stafford is home on the road to recovery.
She explained in an Instagram post on Easter what she went through.
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“This Easter is the beginning of a new life for me,” Kelly Stafford wrote.
“I wanna take a second to thank all of you for all the prayers. They have worked. I know they have.
“When they opened me up, I had an abnormal vein … maybe abnormal for other neurosurgeons, but not the one we chose. He had seen it before and written a paper on it. That’s truly God’s work,” she added.
She thanked fans and supporters for all the love and prayers.
“The prayers for my family, I’m beyond thankful for. A six hour surgery went to 12 hours and although they were anxious and scared, your prayers got them through. Thank you. Thank you so much,” she wrote.
“Now I am home and learning my new norm. It’ll take some time, but I really just wanted to say thank you. Thank you for all your support, thoughts and prayers. It means more than y’all will ever know,” she added.
She announced earlier this month that she had felt dizzy and off balance for about a year and decided to get an MRI. The MRI revealed that she had a tumor on her cranial nerves that required surgery to remove.
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“The medical term they used was an acoustic neuroma or vestibular schwannoma. All I heard was brain tumor & that they had to do surgery to take it out, so that is what we are going to do & we believe we found the best doctor to do it,” Kelly Stafford wrote in the April 3 Instagram post.
“I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t completely terrified of brain surgery.”
“These tumors are benign tumors,” explained Stafford’s surgeon Dr. Jack Rock, neurosurgeon at the Henry Ford Health System, in a video published by the Detroit Free Press.
“They grow very slowly. They’re not rare, but they are not common either. They grow from the hearing nerve. They grow from an area just behind the ear and deep inside the skull.”
Watch a leading neurosurgeon in Acoustic Neuroma sugery, Dr. Jack Rock, discuss what everyone should know about this type of brain tumor. #braintumor #HBTCStrong https://t.co/e39b78Rgry
— Henry Ford Neuroscience Institute (@HenryFordNeuro) April 3, 2019
Kelly and Matthew met while they were at the University of Georgia. Kelly was a cheerleader and he was the star of the football team. Kelly and Matthew have three children.
Our prayers and best wishes for a speedy recovery.
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