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

[Steptide]

24 minutes ago, The Wiz said:

 

Forgive my ignorance, but what is keeping him in critical condition? 

[Bubba Gump]

3 minutes ago, Steptide said:

Forgive my ignorance, but what is keeping him in critical condition? 

 

I was thinking the same thing. I would at least think a "critical, but stable condition" would be more likely. 

[The Wiz]

4 minutes ago, Steptide said:

Forgive my ignorance, but what is keeping him in critical condition? 

no idea.  Likely just the doctors waiting for another milestone before they can move him out of ICU and they will change his status to stable (at least that's my guess).

[Steptide]

17 minutes ago, The Wiz said:

no idea.  Likely just the doctors waiting for another milestone before they can move him out of ICU and they will change his status to stable (at least that's my guess).

I'm guessing they could be waiting for test results too. They don't mess around with heart stuff, and his cardiac arrest wasn't exactly normal, so I'd imagine they're probably trying to rule everything out as much as possible 

[Mr. WEO]

1 hour ago, Beck Water said:

 

Again, way above my knowledge base,but if it's felt to have a genetic component, I would think genetic screening and from @pennstate10 knowledge, cardiac MRI as perhaps the most definitive test, would be next steps.

 

But that doesn't address your fundamental issue which seems to be: if the genetic screening is positive, but the functional diagnostic tests (stress echo, cardiac MRI) do not show current disease, do you keep them off the field?  And I can make arguments both ways on that.

 

I would think they would keep him from playing. 

my guess is that the industry would prevent him from playing.  It’s an unreasonable and avoidable liability fit team and player to accept

[SCBills]

Rex Ryan breaking down on Countdown is getting me in my feels all over again. 

[jkeerie]

Just now, SCBills said:

Rex Ryan breaking down on Countdown is getting me in my feels all over again. 

Just saw that.  Wow.  Never saw Rex that way.

[Draconator]

21 hours ago, Draconator said:

 

Some people are saying this street in East Aurora was renamed after Damar. A good friend of mine is a historian and posted this. I just found it fascinating. Who Hamlin Street is really named after. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/15176910/cicero-julius-hamlin?fbclid=IwAR1S5_masQSatp0cAAhU1MmjpvmEkjrCYQZYLTwWHzbidSS26PT_OklPEqs

[LOVEMESOMEBILLS]

17 minutes ago, SCBills said:

Rex Ryan breaking down on Countdown is getting me in my feels all over again. 

 

 

 

 

EDIT: Rex starts to speak at the 4:15 mark of the video.

 

 

Edited January 7, 2023 by LOVEMESOMEBILLS

[AlfaBill]

17 minutes ago, jkeerie said:

Just saw that.  Wow.  Never saw Rex that way.

He said the words as a dad. I think that’s what really got him. I have a daughter who’s only a few years younger than Damar is and  as fan I’ve criticized his play at times and looked at him as a man. Not really a young man only a few years younger than my own kids. I think we forget that at times. 

[Starr Almighty]

10 minutes ago, LOVEMESOMEBILLS said:

 

 

 

Rex is right I needed Damar asking if we won! I lost interest in a sport I love. Now as Damar recovers I'm hoping we can win it for him and for all of us, of course. This was a tough week. Luckily it's turning around in a positive way. I don't know if we are the best Fanbase in the NFL.  But to me when I'm around other Bills fans we certainly are. There's no better feeling in football!

[Mango]

1 hour ago, Mr. WEO said:

my guess is that the industry would prevent him from playing.  It’s an unreasonable and avoidable liability fit team and player to accept

It’s relatively common in basketball with with marfan’s. Isaiah Austin is relatively recent. And he’s not the first basketball player to be denied. The sport just prefers marfanoid players. 

[Mr. WEO]

10 minutes ago, Mango said:

It’s relatively common in basketball with with marfan’s. Isaiah Austin is relatively recent. And he’s not the first basketball player to be denied. The sport just prefers marfanoid players. 

 

yup

[Beck Water]

1 hour ago, Steptide said:

Forgive my ignorance, but what is keeping him in critical condition? 

 

1 hour ago, Bubba Gump said:

 

I was thinking the same thing. I would at least think a "critical, but stable condition" would be more likely. 

 

When the doctors in their press conference said "he's still very sick", they likely weren't joking.  It's fantastic that he's off the ventilator and able to ask questions and communicate.  But there are a host of complications to almost every organ system following cardiac arrest and recovery.   We already know Damar suffered from, and is on his way to overcoming, one of them (ARDS, acute respiratory distress syndrome, the reason he was proned)

 

I started to write a longer explanation and deleted it.  I don't want to Be That Guy.  Suffice it to say that early signs of Damar's recovery are absolutely fantastic and his chance of a future look bright, but near-term, his doctors could be managing serious conditions of several organ systems. Keeping him in the ICU under the care of the same physician team is probably for the best.

 

If you really want to know, google "post cardiac arrest syndrome" and don't say I didn't warn you it's scary.  But keep in mind, his neurological status and the fact that he's off the ventilator are very very good signs.

Edited January 7, 2023 by Beck Water

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[WideNine]

1 hour ago, Beck Water said:

 

 

When the doctors in their press conference said "he's still very sick", they likely weren't joking.  It's fantastic that he's off the ventilator and able to ask questions and communicate.  But there are a host of complications to almost every organ system following cardiac arrest and recovery.   We already know Damar suffered from, and is on his way to overcoming, one of them (ARDS, acute respiratory distress syndrome, the reason he was proned)

 

I started to write a longer explanation and deleted it.  I don't want to Be That Guy.  Suffice it to say that early signs of Damar's recovery are absolutely fantastic and his chance of a future look bright, but near-term, his doctors could be managing serious conditions of several organ systems. Keeping him in the ICU under the care of the same physician team is probably for the best.

 

If you really want to know, google "post cardiac arrest syndrome" and don't say I didn't warn you it's scary.  But keep in mind, his neurological status and the fact that he's off the ventilator are very very good signs.

 

This. Probably to be expected that his doctors would be exercising an abundance of caution. 

 

Damar is really not that far removed from the physical trauma his body went through. He is on the road to recovery and we can all be very happy and dare to be optimistic that he has more of a future in front of him.

 

Damar has gone on record with how much he loves the game and it was his dream to play in the NFL. I imagine that he would love to watch and cheer his team on this weekend. I could picture him asking, but seriously doubt the doctors are going to let him near anything to keep tabs on the game.

 

Watching this team is exciting, but it can be hard on the ticker.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[BillsShredder83]

3 minutes ago, WideNine said:

 

This. Probably to be expected that his doctors would be exercising an abundance of caution. 

 

Damar is really not that far removed from the physical trauma his body went through. He is on the road to recovery and we can all be very happy and dare to be optimistic that he has more of a future in front of him.

 

Damar has gone on record with how much he loves the game and it was his dream to play in the NFL. I imagine that he would love to watch and cheer his team on this weekend. I could picture him asking, but seriously doubt the doctors are going to let him near anything to keep tabs on the game.

 

Watching this team is exciting, but it can be hard on the ticker.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The mans earned a xanax and a tv! Maybe we go up 21-0 early and they roll in a flat screen!!!

[Bad Things]

2 hours ago, LOVEMESOMEBILLS said:

 

 

 

 

EDIT: Rex starts to speak at the 4:15 mark of the video.

 

 

I couldn't take my eyes off his glowing-bright, white teeth.

Wow

[YoloinOhio]

 

[rusty shackleford]

19 minutes ago, WideNine said:

 

This. Probably to be expected that his doctors would be exercising an abundance of caution. 

 

Damar is really not that far removed from the physical trauma his body went through. He is on the road to recovery and we can all be very happy and dare to be optimistic that he has more of a future in front of him.

 

Damar has gone on record with how much he loves the game and it was his dream to play in the NFL. I imagine that he would love to watch and cheer his team on this weekend. I could picture him asking, but seriously doubt the doctors are going to let him near anything to keep tabs on the game.

 

Watching this team is exciting, but it can be hard on the ticker.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It might just left his spirits to see his teammates be able to go forward and take the field again.