Damar Hamlin Breaks Silence After Cardiac Arrest: ‘Keep Praying For Me’

Damar Hamlin released his archetypal connection pursuing his terrifying on-field collapse during the Jan. 2 crippled betwixt his Buffalo Bills and the Cincinnati Bengals. Damar, 24, suffered a cardiac apprehension aft tackling Bengals Tee Higgins and was transported to the University of Cincinnati Medical Center, wherever helium was initially listed successful captious condition. On Saturday, Jan. 7, Hamlin spoke for the archetypal clip since the event, making an affectional connection connected his Instagram.

Damar Hamlin (Shutterstock)

“When you enactment existent emotion retired into the satellite it comes backmost to you 3x’s arsenic much,” helium wrote alongside a photograph medium of himself. “The Love has been overwhelming, but I’m thankful for each azygous idiosyncratic that prayed for maine and reached out. We brung the satellite backmost unneurotic down this. If you cognize maine you cognize this lone gone marque maine stronger. On a agelong roadworthy support praying for me!”

Hamlin collapsed successful the archetypal 4th of the Bills-Bengals game. Damar tackled Tee Higgins successful what appeared to beryllium a mean collision. Higgins led with his close shoulder, notes ESPN, which collected with Hamlin’s chest. After the hit, Damar stood up and stayed connected his feet for 3 seconds earlier collapsing to the ground. Athletic trainers rushed to his assistance and began to administer CPR. Hamlin received oxygen and was taken disconnected the tract 16 minutes aft helium collapsed.

“If determination appeared to beryllium caput trauma, past that would unfastened the doorway to different things,” Dr. Rigved Tadwalkar, a cardiologist astatine Providence Saint John’s Health Center successful Santa Monica, told the Los Angeles Times astir Hamlin’s injury. While Dr. Tadwalkar was cautious to not effort to diagnose the Bills subordinate from afar, the aesculapian nonrecreational said the harm has the hallmarks of catastrophic thorax trauma.

Damar receiving aesculapian attraction (Shutterstock)

“But extracurricular of [head trauma],” the doc told the LA Times, “it would apt beryllium 1 of these things: Either helium had immoderate benignant of undiagnosed condition, and this was benignant of a regular play that benignant of pushed things implicit the edge, oregon helium was perfectly good and was unlucky and had the incorrect benignant of wounded astatine the incorrect clip that caused structural oregon electrical bosom issues.”

The ordeal struck panic passim some teams, who were acrophobic implicit their chap NFL player. The Bills knelt unneurotic successful a ellipse aft Hamlin was removed from the field, with the defence heading backmost to the tract to resume play, per ESPN. Fans connected Twitter noted that Bengals backmost Joe Burrow was warming up arsenic to resume play (the NFL denies that they were readying to spell connected with the game.)

“Frankly, that facet ne'er crossed my caput oregon their caput internally,” NFL enforcement vice president of shot operations Troy Vincent said during a league telephone pursuing the incident. “We asked that [referee] Shawn [Smith] pass with some [Zac] Taylor and Coach [Sean] McDermott getting the players together. Frankly, it was conscionable astir getting a pulse of wherever they were astatine that peculiar time.”

Shortly aft the incident, Hamlin’s Chasing M’s Foundation received implicit 3 cardinal successful donations. The foundation’s artifact drive, established connected GoFundMe in 2020, was acceptable for $2,500 to payment a daycare successful his hometown, McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania. As of Jan. 3, it had implicit $3.7 cardinal from implicit 141k donations.

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