Damar Hamlin attends Payments-Bengals playoff recreation 3 weeks after on-field collapse
Damar Hamlin was at Highmark Stadium on Sunday afternoon, visiting along with his Buffalo Payments teammates earlier than their divisional playoff recreation in opposition to the Cincinnati Bengals, simply three weeks after he collapsed and went into cardiac arrest on the sector throughout Monday Night time Soccer.
The Payments posted a video of Hamlin coming into the stadium on a crew golf cart earlier than the sport started. His mom and youthful brother are additionally in attendance.
Hamlin went into cardiac arrest on the field after taking successful on to the chest on Jan. 2 when the Payments have been enjoying the Bengals in Cincinnati. The Bengals medical employees and emergency responders got here to Hamlin’s aspect inside 60 seconds and needed to restart his coronary heart earlier than giving him CPR for almost 10 minutes, when he was loaded into an ambulance and brought to the College of Cincinnati Medical Heart.
The short response of the on-site medical employees and emergency personnel saved Hamlin’s life. Inside a day he was responding positively, and shortly after he was awake, speaking, and tweeting. He was watching from his hospital mattress on Jan. 8 when the Payments performed their first recreation since Hamlin’s collapse, scoring a kickoff return landing on the very first play of the sport and once more later within the recreation.
Hamlin was discharged from the hospital in Cincinnati every week after his collapse, then spent a number of days in a Buffalo hospital earlier than being discharged on Jan. 11 to continue his rehab at home. Since then, Hamlin has been making frequent journeys to the Payments facility and persevering with to rehab.
Hamlin’s restoration to date has been unimaginable, and his story has impressed coaches, gamers, and followers everywhere in the NFL, nevertheless it’s most significant for the Payments. Having Hamlin again within the constructing throughout a playoff recreation — particularly one which’s a rematch of the groups that performed when Hamlin initially bought injured — will flip this playoff recreation into an necessary second in Payments franchise historical past, regardless of the way it ends.