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A Week After Brain Surgery, Kelly Stafford Ends Up in the Emergency Room

April 24, 2019, 2:56 PM

Kelly Stafford, wife of Detroit Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford, returned to Henry Ford Health Center to deal with pain a week after surgeons removed a noncancerous tumor from her brain. She hopes she be back home Thursday. 

Stafford wrote on Instagram that she went to the emergency room Wednesday morning to deal with pain after tapering off medication.  

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

A little update: I thought I could do it. They told me tapering off the steroids was going to be very difficult. The first picture was yesterday when I was on what I thought was my last day of steroids. I thought I could power through the pain and massive headaches that were challenging me throughout the day. I figured i could pull my strength from one of the strongest people I know, matthew. I told myself the pain would succumb to me, I wouldn’t succumb to it. I was so wrong. The pain got so far ahead of me I couldn’t keep anything down, including meds. I ended up in the ER very early this morning, back on steroids and pain medication. At first, I felt like I had failed, like I couldn’t handle it.. but what I really failed at was listening to my own body. A lesson I feel like I am going to have to keep reminding myself of. Thank you again for everything. I just wanted to give a little update. They will keep me here overnight just to monitor in hopes of going home in the morning.

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