Damar Hamlin’s recovery took its next step Monday, as the Bills safety was released from the University of Cincinnati Medical Center and transferred to a Buffalo hospital.
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Damar Hamlin who went into cardiac arrest and collapsed on the field one week ago, landed safely in Buffalo and was monitored and observed following the flight.
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This is the beginning of the next stage of his recovery, Dr. William Knight, director of emergency medicine, said in a news conference.
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Damar Hamlin met “a number of key milestones” that made doctors feel comfortable with sending him back to Buffalo, Knight said.
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Hamlin gradually awoke from his medically induced sedation Wednesday night. His breathing tube was removed.
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Hamlin walked his first lap around the unit Friday, and he continued assisted walks — as well as physical and occupational therapy — throughout the weekend.
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Dr. Timothy Pritts, division chief of general surgery, called it a “very normal-to-accelerated” trajectory for his recovery.
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Doctor said Hamlin is “neurologically completely intact” with “no reason to believe” this recovery path won’t continue.
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When Hamlin awoke from his sedation, the first question he wrote for doctors on paper asked who won the game between the Bengals and Bills.
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At the time, doctors responded that Hamlin had won the “game of life.” Just one week later, Hamlin’s answer to his own question, Pritts said, is that “we all won out of this.”
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