Former NFL quarterback Alex Smith announced his daughter Sloane, who is the youngest of three children he has with his wife, Elizabeth Barry, underwent an emergency craniotomy to remove a malignant brain tumor.
He announced on Instagram on Saturday that Sloane was taken to the emergency room on May 10 with "stroke-like symptoms" before an MRI revealed "a large brain tumor."
The procedure lasted 10 hours, which Smith called "the most excruciating time of our lives," but the neurosurgeons at Stanford Children's removed 100 percent of the tumor.
"Sloane—in her true form—bounced back from brain surgery like a rockstar!