After going into cardiac arrest during an N.F.L. game, Buffalo Bills football star Damar Hamlin was released from a Buffalo hospital on Wednesday.
The 24-year-old spent a week in the ICU at a Cincinnati hospital (where the team was playing) before being moved to a hospital in Buffalo.
He will now face a lengthy rehabilitation at home.
For the long term, doctors anticipate Hamlin “would have likely ongoing needs,” which may include “therapy or working with different specialists.” Fortunately, Knight explained that because “he appears to be neurologically completely intact” at this point, “there’s no reason to believe that he won’t continue his path to recovery.”
Even people who aren’t football fans have followed the story, donated to his toy charity (now over 5M!), bought t-shirts that read ‘Love For Damar,’ and tweeted good wishes for his recovery.