Matthew Stafford's Wife Kelly Battled Brain Tumor in 2019, Had It Removed During 12 Hour Surgery
09.09.2022 - 02:45
/ justjared.com
Kelly Stafford is the wife of Los Angeles Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford and you may not know that in 2019, she had a brain tumor removed in a 12-hour surgery.
She’s now tumor free all these years later, and as her husband preps for the 2022 Super Bowl, we’re sharing her story here.
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In an essay for ESPN, Kelly explained, “The first moment I was really concerned was last January. I was in Michigan, and had just gotten a massage. When I walked out, I just didn’t feel right. I was lightheaded and it felt like the world was spinning around me. I texted Matthew: ‘I might need you to come pick me up.’ But then I waited a little bit in my car, and started feeling better, so I drove home myself. A week later, it happened again. This time, I was holding our daughter, Hunter, who was just an infant. The room started spinning around me and I felt like I was going to fall down. I almost threw Hunter to Matthew, because I didn’t want her to go down with me.”
“The day I almost dropped Hunter, we were heading to California for vacation. At first I resisted because we had so much to do, but Matthew and I went to the ER to get checked out. My blood work looked great. My vitals were fine. Doctors offered to do an MRI, but I said I didn’t have time. So they gave me Antivert, which is a medicine for vertigo, and we left for vacation. The problem was, the medicine wasn’t having any effect on me,” she continued.
She later did get an MRI.
“A few days after the MRI, we got the results. The medical term was an acoustic neuroma or vestibular schwannoma. There was a tumor sitting on some of my cranial nerves. I was told I needed to have surgery to remove it. And I was terrified,” she continued.
Kelly added, “I had