Damar Hamlin - Now (1/11/2023) discharged from Buf Gen & “recovering at home”

[Warriorspikes51]

2 minutes ago, Logic said:

So Damar Facetimed individually with various teammates?

The thought of what it must have felt like to get a Facetime call and look at their phone and see that it's Damar on the other end. I can't even imagine.

Chills, goosebumps, lump in the throat. 

What a miracle. What a blessing. What an incredible turn of events.

God is good. And if you're not a "God person", then we can just say: modern medical science is incredible!

It was the whole team 

[Mango]

1 minute ago, TheBrownBear said:

Throw out the moment of silence.  This is now a time to celebrate his recovery, not mourn his potential loss.  

 

I was just trying to think of something for week 18. 

I feel kinda crappy about thinking about this from a PR perspective, but it would be good for the team to be able to build their emotion about this as the team builds through the playoffs. 

[TheBrownBear]

1 hour ago, Logic said:

So Damar Facetimed individually with various teammates?

The thought of what it must have felt like to get a Facetime call and look at their phone and see that it's Damar on the other end. I can't even imagine.

Chills, goosebumps, lump in the throat. 

What a miracle. What a blessing. What an incredible turn of events.

God is good. And if you're not a "God person", then we can just say: modern medical science is incredible!

There've been studies on the power of "prayer" and there seems to be something to it, placebo or otherwise.  Whether it's actual religious prayer or just positive thoughts, well wishes, etc., I'm a firm believer that putting that positive energy/love out there for our fellow man makes a difference, however small it may be.  

Edited January 6, 2023 by TheBrownBear

[Logic]

1 minute ago, Warriorspikes51 said:

It was the whole team 

I was just going by the wording of Rapaport's Tweet:

 

This is amazing: For the first time, #Bills S Damar Hamlin is addressing the team via Facetime. The breathing tube is out, and he’s spent the morning speaking to various teammates on Facetime. Now, he’s delivering a message to the entire group, I’m told.

— Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) January 6, 2023


To me, that sounded like he was talking to guys individually first. Perhaps Ian just worded it strangely.

 

[stevestojan]

If any of the neurological tests include explaining the AFC playoff picture, I think they set the bar too high at UCMC. 

 

What amazing news to wake up to today. (I’m on the west coast, not just lazy). 

[The Wiz]

 

[Beck Water]

33 minutes ago, rusty shackleford said:

One aspect that hasn't been brought up that much is how impactful the whole situation has been on the Bengals players as well. They were just talking about that on NFLN where they said the Bengals didn't practice at all until yesterday. The one reporter said she asked Joe Mixon earlier in the week if he would be ready to take the field on Sunday and he straight up said no. The recovery news has to be uplifting to them too, especially considering they have to go right back on the same field this weekend. 

 

I'm sure that "one more thing" at the end of Josh's presser was impactful for not just Tee Higgins but the entire Bengals team, as well.

Don't take this on yourself

It was a football play

 

Bengals fans who are all salty that their team is getting screwed need to remember that the Bengals captains reportedly came to the Bills locker room to say "we don't want to continue the game either".  They had their own emotions and processing, less than the Bills but still - very hard to play undistracted with a single mind, and very possible to get hurt if you don't.

 

Edited January 6, 2023 by Beck Water

[muppy]

9 minutes ago, The Wiz said:

 

OMG now I need more kleenex  Damar with the show of swag even in his hospital bed. you KNOW he is feelin better now for sure LOL wow. 

Edited January 6, 2023 by muppy

[SCBills]

“Larger than life”

 

What. A. Line.  
 

McDermott just caught me right there .. legit tears. 

[The Wiz]

 

[Returntoglory]

10 minutes ago, Logic said:

So Damar Facetimed individually with various teammates?

The thought of what it must have felt like to get a Facetime call and look at their phone and see that it's Damar on the other end. I can't even imagine.

Chills, goosebumps, lump in the throat. 

What a miracle. What a blessing. What an incredible turn of events.

God is good. And if you're not a "God person", then we can just say: modern medical science is incredible!

And tears. 

[rusty shackleford]

5 minutes ago, Logic said:

I was just going by the wording of Rapaport's Tweet:

 

This is amazing: For the first time, #Bills S Damar Hamlin is addressing the team via Facetime. The breathing tube is out, and he’s spent the morning speaking to various teammates on Facetime. Now, he’s delivering a message to the entire group, I’m told.

— Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) January 6, 2023


To me, that sounded like he was talking to guys individually first. Perhaps Ian just worded it strangely.

 

I took the "various teammates" in the morning might have referred to former teammates from HS and college that are close friends before doing an organized thing with all the Bills.

[Toledo Bill]

I’ve never seen McDermott give more than a little smile. Ear to ear smile at this press conference 😀

[Beck Water]

5 minutes ago, muppy said:

OMG now I need more kleenex  Lamar with the show of swag even in his hospital bed. you KNOW he is feelin better now for sure LOL wow. 

 

Autocorrect still sucks, Muppy

[Beck Water]

3 minutes ago, rusty shackleford said:

I took the "various teammates" in the morning might have referred to former teammates from HS and college that are close friends before doing an organized thing with all the Bills.

 

It probably included his closest friends on the Bills, such Dane Jackson (who, as you note, was a college teammate)

[muppy]

2 minutes ago, Beck Water said:

 

Autocorrect still sucks, Muppy

its a mental defect of mine. smh corrected

[LOVEMESOMEBILLS]

29 minutes ago, BIGFOOTspaceman said:

I'm not a "God" guy or prayer person.   But I did pray....just not sure to who...maybe to just myself.

 

This is a straight up Miracle!

 

 I as well. I haven't prayed since I was a kid, but when there was no big improvement through Tuesday afternoon, I just felt I had to and I'm glad I did. Sometimes events happen that are just bigger than your own personal beliefs and convictions. If there is indeed a higher power, thank you from the bottom of my heart. ❤️ 

 

#3 GO BILLS!!

 

 

[Don Otreply]

12 minutes ago, BIGFOOTspaceman said:

I'm not a "God" guy or prayer person.   But I did pray....just not sure to who...maybe to just myself.

 

This is a straight up Miracle!

I appreciate your thoughts, I too am not a god guy, my thoughts are directly for DHs return to good health, as folk may have noticed from my posts, but we know the well educated health professionals and the skills/knowledge/learning gained over time is what made this happen,  (not that Damar doesn’t have a long road ahead) now don’t some of y’all get me wrong, I am a spiritual person, just not a in Sunday go to meeting sort of way, if you get my drift. It’s a happy day for all of us humans to see one of our family return to us from the abyss, they joy and happiness Damars loved ones must be experiencing with this good news must be over the top! 
 

 

[Beast]

I think it would be pretty cool, when the time is right, for Damar to FaceTime the Bengals. They are hurting too.

[Beck Water]

This kind of got buried in concerns, but TBN wrote a nice story on a Lewiston NY native who may have gone through the same thing starting October 27

 

https://buffalonews.com/news/local/lewiston-natives-heart-stopped-while-playing-college-baseball-hes-making-a-full-recovery/article_f4bd5c12-8baf-11ed-b59c-7fb841b8ca04.html

 

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It took lifesaving actions by his baseball coach and the use of an automated external defibrillator to get DiCarlo breathing again. After three days of being sedated and in an induced coma, he began breathing on his own. DiCarlo is expected to make a full recovery.

 

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Nick DiCarlo was rushed to New York Presbyterian Hospital in Westchester County and then Weill Cornell Medical Center in Manhattan, where he was put into a medically induced coma and required assistance breathing.

John DiCarlo said doctors told him his son was put on a ventilator to reduce his metabolic rate so that his body did not need to work too hard, resting his heart and brain. His son was also wrapped in cold compresses to reduce his body temperature to 95 degrees, halting some inflammation.

Slowly Nick DiCarlo was removed from sedation and began breathing over the top of the ventilator, which he was pulled off once he could fully breathe on his own. He wound up being sedated for three days and his hospital stay lasted six days.

 

Damar was evidently sedated for ~2 - 2 1/2 days which could represent difference in protocol between UC and Cornell-Weil, or, a higher level of emergency care available at an NFL game vs. a college Baseball practice leading to a bit better initial outcome.

 

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A few days after returning home, he started going back to Proformance Sports Training at the Northtown Center in Amherst, where he worked with trainer John Opfer on rehabilitation from Nov. 3 through the Thanksgiving break. After that, he returned to school and baseball practices and has been participating again without restrictions.

 

He said throughout November his body was quite sore, including experiencing chest aches, but that progressively got better.

 

He has been cleared to play baseball again as of Thanksgiving.