Whereas Buffalo Payments security Damar Hamlin has began making nice strides in his restoration from cardiac arrest earlier this month, he nonetheless has a protracted technique to go in his restoration, his household spokesman advised ESPN on Thursday evening.
In a press release, Hamlin’s longtime buddy and enterprise associate, Jordon Rooney, mentioned: “Regardless of being out of the hospital, Damar nonetheless has a prolonged restoration. Damar nonetheless requires oxygen and is having his coronary heart monitored commonly. He has visited with the workforce a couple of occasions however he nonetheless will get winded very simply.
“He is upbeat and constructive and able to proceed to beat this.”
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Like members of Hamlin’s household, Rooney has been on the defensive again’s bedside each in hospitals and at Hamlin’s residence for the reason that cardiac arrest occurred in a recreation in opposition to the Bengals on Jan. 2 in Cincinnati.
His assertion got here someday after Payments coach Sean McDermott advised reporters Hamlin had been on the workforce facility “virtually day by day,” visiting his teammates and coaches Tuesday and Wednesday.
“It is restricted, simply general,” McDermott mentioned of what Hamlin has been doing. “However he is available in and actually simply began actually right this moment or yesterday and simply attempting to get again to slightly little bit of a routine and simply get himself acclimated once more and taking it one step, one child step at a time right here.”
Hamlin has not been taking part in workforce conferences however is “dipping his toe again in right here and, you realize, getting on the street to simply getting again to himself,” McDermott mentioned.
Hamlin didn’t attend the workforce’s residence win over the Miami Dolphins to start out the playoffs, however he was watching remotely. The 24-year-old first visited the workforce Saturday at its walk-through earlier than the sport, together with his mother and father, Mario and Nina, and his brother, Damir.
Earlier Thursday, Bengals receiver Tee Higgins mentioned he hoped to see Hamlin in some unspecified time in the future this weekend, when the Bengals go to the Payments for Sunday’s AFC divisional spherical recreation. Higgins was being tackled by Hamlin on the play practically three weeks in the past when the Payments security was injured.
“I am fairly certain we’re simply going to cut it up, laughs and giggles and simply be pleased to see him,” Higgins mentioned.
Higgins was in communication with Hamlin’s household within the days following the Week 17 recreation that was finally canceled following the harm. He mentioned he hasn’t but spoken to Hamlin.
ESPN’s Ben Child and Alaina Getzenberg contributed to this report.
