Kelly Stafford, the wife of Los Angeles Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford, had recently given birth to her third child when she first noticed symptoms. Walking out after getting a massage, she felt dizzy and lightheaded. The symptoms subsided quickly, but returned a week later.
“This time, I was holding our daughter, Hunter, who was just an infant,” Stafford later recounted in an essay for ESPN. “The room started spinning around me and I felt like I was going to fall down. I almost threw Hunter to Matthew, because I didn’t want her to go down with me.”
