In 2019, the wife of Matthew Stafford opened up to NBC Detroit affiliate WDIV about her grueling recovery from surgery to remove a benign brain tumor. SuperBowl
known as an acoustic neuroma that was sitting on some of her cranial nerves. Despite being benign, the tumor is still known to cause hearing loss and facial paralysis.
"I don't know if this doctor didn't know that I didn't know, she pulls up my MRI and goes, 'Well, here is your brain tumor,''' she said."We had no idea.""I remember sitting down with them in the waiting room and just losing it,'' Kelly said.During the procedure, Matthew Stafford was in the waiting room receiving sporadic updates via text message.
"They couldn't go, 'Here's three paragraphs of what's happening,''' Matthew said."It was kind of like, 'Ran into a hurdle, expect the surgery to go two hours longer than expected.'''"He never left my side,'' she said."I mean when I say I couldn't do anything. He had to be by my side at every moment.""Kids are great in the sense that you can't dwell on things,'' she said."They make you get up.
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