Kelly Stafford wound up in the emergency room on Wednesday, just a few days after returning home from the hospital following surgery to remove a brain tumor.
On Friday she was back home.
She shared an update on Instagram in which she expressed gratefulness to be reunited with her three young children.
"I'm home," she wrote. "I'm home and I got to spend a few hours with my little humans. It filled my heart so much. I can't even describe it. I wish they could stay, but I know I'm not ready for all of it.
"When they took out the tumor, they also wiped out the entire balance system on my right side. I wish I could explain it, but I think it's something you have to experience. I can't turn my head right without feeling college drunk.. I'm talking end of the night, cant put one foot in front of the other, knowing you'll be sleeping on the bathroom floor, college drunk. I have to rework my brain to know that it can only rely on my left side, which will take time, a good amount of time.
"And when there are two toddlers running below your feet while you are trying to relearn basic things like walking.. it makes it seem like there are a million more moving parts to it.. maybe because there are."
A post shared by Kelly Stafford (@kbstafford89) on Apr 26, 2019 at 1:03pm PDT
The wife of Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford, Kelly underwent surgery last week after she was diagnosed with acoustic neuroma, a very rare type of benign tumor that develops on the nerves leading from the inner ear to the brain, per the MayoClinic.
It can cause hearing loss, loss of balance, dizziness and facial numbness. If treated properly -- in this case, surgically removed -- it is generally not considered life-threatening.
With Kelly recovering, the Lions told their quarterback to take as much time off as he needed. But Stafford was reportedly back at the team facility at the start of this week for Phase 1 of the offseason training program.
