'Matthew (Stafford)'s Back Has Completely Healed,' Wife Says In Emotional Post About Pregnancy After Brain Surgery

Will he stay or will he go?

While that storyline about Matthew Stafford plays out in the media his wife has been very open about the other Stafford, the one who lives at home with three small daughters.

After announcing her pregnancy with their fourth child this weekend, Kelly Stafford wrote an emotional Instagram post about how her sweet and caring husband knew she was pregnant while she was trying to keep it a secret.

Stafford, who was plagued with injuries in the tail end of last season, had a broken back back when she found out, and their girls were sick. She decided to keep the news to herself.

"I wanted him to have a clear mind so that he could have a quick, successful recovery himself," said Stafford, who has posted many times about her 12-hour brain surgery last April following the discovery of a slow-growing tumor and an abnormal vein.

She said her silence lasted 3 days because her husband is "sometimes too smart for his own good" and quickly figured out what she was keeping to herself.

Read the rest below.  

This game was a few weeks after I told Matthew I was expecting, well really before he found out. The day I found out I was pregnant, was the same day Matthew found out he had broken his back. With that news, I decided I would keep the pregnancy to myself because for so long we had been so worried about my brain and my recovery, I didn't want him to have to think about me continuing to recover while growing a baby.. I wanted him to have a clear mind so that he could have a quick, successful recovery himself. That lasted 3 days. Matthew is sometimes too smart for his own good. While I was so focused on him, he was focused on me, with the littlest of things clueing him into what was going on. He asked if I was, I said yes, and we hugged it out. The next month & a half was hard and exhausting. Our 3 little ones were extremely sick for weeks, at least one of them throwing up a day.. everyone telling us it was a virus so they fought like the little warriors they are, only for it to turn into pneumonia. Poor things were not themselves for too long. I had zero energy. This pregnancy had been my toughest yet.. messing more so with my head & my balance, making me sick & constantly worried something else was wrong. Then there was my incredible husband trying to keep it together while dealing with his own health issue... & all of this with the holidays were quickly approaching.. & we all know how busy & hectic the holidays are. We made it through, completing all the holiday traditions we had made thus far as a family.. but we were very ready for these tables to turn. They did. At the beginning of jan, after strong antibiotics, our girls started to gain their personalities & weight back. Matthew had gotten word that his back had completely healed and because of symptoms I was having, I got an MRI on my brain that showed no residual from surgery & everything looked normal. We finally felt like we had caught a break. The past 15 months have really taken a toll on me and my family. Next month will mark a year from my brain surgery. It is a year that has helped my family grow in numbers and in strength, but it is a year that I never want to revisit. #StaffordStrong

A post shared by Kelly Stafford (@kbstafford89) on Mar 2, 2020 at 8:40am PST

While Kelly Stafford came out this weekend to say they were staying in Detroit, it's notable that she fueled the talk behind a trade by announcing on social media a few weeks ago that if the Lions were "done with them" she would be happy to move to California and presumaly the Chargers.