On April 3, Kelly Stafford — a popular mom blogger and wife of Detroit Lions quarterback Matt Stafford — revealed she was diagnosed with a brain tumor on Instagram.
As Dearly previously reported, the wife and mom of three shared a picture of her and Matt smiling on the day she was given the diagnosis.
Kelly wrote that she began noticing something was wrong last year. She first felt a difference while playing with her daughters.
She explained that every time she would instruct how to do a front roll or how to twirl in ballet class, Kelly would “immediately feel dizzy and off balance.”
The mom first contributed the multiple spells of vertigo to “old age.”
She later learned that the cause of her dizzy spells was actually due to a tumor called acoustic neuroma or vestibular schwannoma.
On Easter Sunday, Kelly updated her Instagram followers on how she was doing after undergoing open brain surgery to remove the tumor.
She shared photos of her and family, as well as a video of her walking again following the surgery.
She wrote:
This Easter is the beginning of a new life for me.
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. The prayers for my family, I’m beyond thankful for.
Kelly continued:
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. 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.
Multiple big names in sports commented on Kelly’s post to offer her their well-wishes as she continues to recover.
Detriot Lions’ Christian Jones wrote:
This is awesome!!! So happy everything went well.
And sports reporters Sarah Walsh, Chrissa Thompson, and Adam Schefter followed suit, respectively:
Thanks for the update as so many of us are rooting for you and thinking of you! All the positive vibes headed your way…..
Sending ALL the love and prayers your way
Everyone is thinking of you and pulling for you!
While Luke Bryant and Brittany Aldean added:
Praying for y’all
Amen, Kelly!! Prayers for a full, amazing recovery!! We are thinking of you!
Kelly later wrote that she hasn’t seen her kids in a week and that has been one of the hardest parts for her.
“Sitting in this dark room in pain, but trying to hold off on meds because I want to see my kids. I want to be coherent and in the moment,” she wrote on Instagram. “Tomorrow, it’ll have been a whole week that I haven’t seen them and my heart aches. Balancing, in general, is incredibly hard right now.. balancing kids and brain surgery is nearly impossible.”
I get so sick of stories being published just because their wives/husbands are some sort of celebrity. The are thousands of people undergoing the same if not worse but you never see a story about them because they are just common folks like the rest of us. QUIT printing sob stories just because these people have money or whatever else they do…like throwing a stupid ball around.
Get a life anonymous. And since you don’t have the balls to say your own name says a lot about you. They are normal people but just seemed to be successful. Hope you never need prayers. Pitiful , .
What a beautiful family. Thank you for sharing. God’s blessings for complete recovery!
So did you ever think that the news about the celebrities getting thru it gives hope to others? Just because they are famous doesn’t mean it isn’t painful for them too. For your sake I hope you never have to go thru something like this and if you do, you get more support than you have given.
I hope kelly never will read Anonymous who really is a sad person with no life. I for one, Kelly, pray for you every day!
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