{"id":721979,"date":"2026-06-23T21:58:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T21:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/721979\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T21:58:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T21:58:17","slug":"jim-kelly-said-he-feels-good-after-recovering-from-a-recent-stroke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/721979\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim Kelly said he feels good after recovering from a recent stroke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hall of Famer Jim Kelly has had a run of bad health luck since retiring from the NFL after the 1996 season. A cancer survivor, the former Bills quarterback revealed Tuesday that he had a stroke last month.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI spent a few days in the hospital, but <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wgrz.com\/article\/sports\/nfl\/bills\/jim-kelly-says-hes-blessed-after-stroke-looks-ahead-to-new-highmark-stadium\/71-80bd4c94-0a4f-4c31-9f6e-4b96ce927c66\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">right now I feel good<\/a>,\u201d Kelly said, via Kim DeGeorge of WGRZ. \u201cEyesight\u2019s not great. My hearing still sucks, but that\u2019s part of life. It\u2019s part of getting old, but I feel really good. Scans have been clean and all. Everything\u2019s good, all good.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kelly is a four-time survivor of squamous cell carcinoma. He was first diagnosed in his upper jaw in 2013 and underwent multiple surgeries, radiation and chemotherapy to beat the disease after several recurrences. <\/p>\n<p>Despite his health challenges, Kelly has always maintained a positive outlook.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m very blessed,\u201d Kelly said. \u201cIt\u2019s been about a month and a half since my setback, but I feel pretty good. I feel good. I can\u2019t wait for the first game.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kelly hopes to enjoy many years of football in the Bills\u2019 new stadium.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI pray to the good Lord that it gives me some extra years that I\u2019ll be able to enjoy a football game right here in Highmark Stadium with my grandson,\u201d Kelly said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hall of Famer Jim Kelly has had a run of bad health luck since retiring from the NFL&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":721980,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-721979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=721979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/721980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=721979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=721979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=721979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}