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Former NFL quarterback Alex Smith praised the strength of his “sweet, selfless, intelligent, cheerful, witty, fun-loving” daughter, announcing that he is recovering from brain surgery to remove a “very rare malignancy.”
Smith wrote on Instagram on Saturday that Sloan, the youngest of his three children with his wife Elizabeth and their only daughter, was struck by “stroke-like symptoms” on May 10.
He explained that doctors had informed the Smith family that she “had a large brain tumor and needed urgent skull trepanation.”
Ten hours of surgery at Stanford Children’s Health was “the most painful time of our lives,” he wrote. Neurosurgeons, he said, removed the entire tumor, and Sloan “in his true form – bounced off brain surgery like a rock star!” She didn’t miss a single beat. “
However, the pathology found that she had “a very rare malignancy with very few documented cases – without a clear roadmap for treatment. We are currently awaiting more tests and gathering as many opinions as possible from doctors across the country to decide the best way forward. We want this to be easy, clear and for someone to give us a guide on how to do it. That’s all but that. “
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The 6-year-old “heals” and “returns to himself. I sing, dance, laugh and feel good. ” He added that “mostly she is an incredibly strong girl who has a lot of battles in her.”
Smith thanked “our amazing medical team, family, friends, acquaintances and even some strangers who have touched our lives in the last month and a half. We struggled to keep calls, text messages, communication and tried to keep loved ones up to date. This was the most difficult period we have ever been through. We know it’s not over and we have a journey ahead of us, but without all of you we wouldn’t be able to go that far. “
Alex and Elizabeth were found recovering from a long recovery from a leg fracture that ended his NFL career by sharing the story with ESPN and talking about how his life was in danger of infection. He apologized in his post for seeming “withdrawn” in the face of this challenge.
“We are sorry if we look withdrawn. This is because we are… We were overwhelmed by appointments for doctors, scans, laboratories and we were trying to deal with all this. The most important thing is that we treat together as a family. “
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