Damar Hamlin Updates

[Guts]

 

[Mainepatsfan54]

 

[SHOWTIME15]

 

[PP2]

We're losing this game...

 

[venecol]

 

[signbabybrady]

When's he gonna suit up again lol.... Bruschi can give him some advice.

 

[Steve102]

I wish they were playing anyone else. Good for him.100% behind this kid.

 

[PatsWSB47]

Agreed it was a routine hit….and I don’t think that CC was proper diagnosis here….I think he probably has some undiagnosed cardiac genetic issues perhaps and I’m sure they will now do further more thorough cardiac testing…..but honestly it doesn’t matter …all that matters is that he opened his eyes….seems to be neurologically intact and hopefully will be able to resume a normal life…Football doesn’t matter that much

A routine hit that probably so happened to hit his chest at just the wrong time . Of course there's a possibility of an undiagnosed heart problem but odds are it was CC.

What caused Buffalo Bills' Damar Hamlin's cardiac arrest? Doctors say his heart likely healthy before collapse

The right hit at the wrong time may have triggered a rare phenomenon known as commotio cordis, heart experts suggest.

www.nbcnews.com

"I knew exactly what was going on," said Dr. Nahush Mokadam, the division director of cardiac surgery at Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center. "The way he first stood up and then collapsed ... it's not what a concussion would look like."

While there are several potential causes for Hamlin's cardiac arrest, cardiologists suggested that a rare phenomenon called "commotio cordis" was to blame.

In such cases, "there is nothing wrong with the heart," said Dr. Hari Tandri, the director of the cardiac arrhythmia program at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee. A healthy heart, when hit with blunt force at a specific time, Tandri said, can launch into an abnormal and potentially deadly rhythm.

A spokesperson for the American Heart Association, Dr. Comilla Sasson, an emergency medicine physician in Denver, said: "It's not about how hard of a hit it was. It's actually about the timing of when the blow happens."

Normally, the heart pumps oxygen-rich blood throughout the body about every second. There is a rhythm to the process, keeping the blood flowing at a healthy pace. But every time the heart beats, there is a tiny moment — less than a fifth of a second — that makes it vulnerable to the force of a projectile, such as a hockey puck or a baseball, that can lead to a chaotic and potentially deadly heart rhythm.

It is in this exact moment, experts say, that a blow to the chest in the exact right place can launch an otherwise healthy person into cardiac arrest. The heart's electrical system malfunctions, and the heartbeat rhythm goes haywire.

Seconds after such an injury are critical to the patient's survival, Sasson said.

"For every one minute that you don't have CPR performed, your chances of survival go down by about 10%," she said. In Hamlin's case, medical personnel on the sidelines rushed in to perform CPR until he was stable enough to be taken by ambulance for further treatm

 

[Chevy]

Awesome news. Awake, breathing, coherent - absolutely awesome.

 

[PatsWSB47]

We're losing this game...

They're going to be fired up on a mission that's for sure but they still have to execute. I say we suit up and play the game

 

[Betterthanmost]

They're going to be fired up on a mission that's for sure but they still have to execute. I say we suit up and play the game

Once you whether the first quarter, adrenaline equalization happens after that. If you get blown out by the first Quarter, it will be a long night. Whether the storm. Taken advantage of those who may want to do more. Ripe for fumbling opportunities etc.

 

[italian pat patriot]

Great news from Damar status

Sad that today we lost Gianluca Vialli...

 

[JarOfMayo51]

I read on Twitter that Damar's father is "calling for any criticism of Bengals WR Tee Higgins to stop." Is this a real thing? How and why would Higgins be taking on criticism? For slightly lowering his helmet on the play? Happens all the time and often way more aggressively than he did on that play.

because there are a lot of dumb, angry people in this world

 

[JarOfMayo51]

A funny(?) sidenote, but on my first deployment to Afghanistan as a dirty lower-enlisted, we figured out that, given the hours we worked and our pay, most of us were making less than $5/hour, less than most fast food joints at the time.

Then again, we were Army, a gnarly bunch...our opposable thumbs could barely handle simple tasks. I doubt any of us could flip burgers without dropping them, and I'm sure one of us would have had third degree burns within the first shift on the deep fryer

Thinking back on it, maybe we WERE paid appropriately

friend of mine married a Master Chief from the Navy who retired around 35 years old with a pension, and by the time he was out he had paid off his house, a boat house, a truck, etc

He said they werent paid a lot, but he had no expenses while deployed so it all went into his account and was never touched

 

[PatsWickedPissah]

Ice up son! There's a game Sunday!

 

[Boomer B]

Zac Taylor: “we just want the rules to be followed” and “doesn’t want to hear about fair and equitable” solutions while rules are being changed at the last minute.

Bengals executive V.P. Katie Blackburn wrote a memo to NFL teams saying that the “proper process for making rule change is in the off-season” and that it is “not appropriate” to make changes to the rules on the fly. Taylor called it “awesome” to see that “someone has to fight for you. It’s clearly not coming from the league.”

Zac Taylor on proposed playoff changes: Positives for others, negatives for us - ProFootballTalk

Bengals head coach Zac Taylor is not happy about the changes to the AFC playoff procedures that the league has proposed in the wake of cancelling the Bengals’ Week 17 game against the Bills.Under the proposal, the Bengals and Ravens would flip a coin for home field advantage in the Wild Card...

profootballtalk.nbcsports.com

 

[Palm Beach Pats Fan]

because there are a lot of dumb, angry people in this world

because Bart Scott is in the world

This braindead ex-Raven is the one who bizarrely blamed Higgins

 

[JarOfMayo51]

because Bart Scott is in the world

This braindead ex-Raven is the one who bizarrely blamed Higgins

i heard he was getting death threats and stuff, so i dont think it was just bart scott

 

[Nikolai]

friend of mine married a Master Chief from the Navy who retired around 35 years old with a pension, and by the time he was out he had paid off his house, a boat house, a truck, etc

He said they werent paid a lot, but he had no expenses while deployed so it all went into his account and was never touched

Once you get up the ranks, the pay can get rather decent. Lower enlisted in the barracks were making $1600-$2200 a month during my time, but had jump pay, and the med/food benefits. While deployed on 16-18 hour days, seven days a week, that pay started to feel thin on an hourly basis.

I can't speak for the Navy, but the Army provided minimal to no financial literacy courses, leaving it to the NCOs, who themselves may not necessary have a lot of wisdom to offer. At Bragg, you could always tell when the 82d got back from a deployment. There were a lot of new Chargers, Mustangs, and Camaros around, a reasonable portion being financed at around 27% interest.

I had a PV2 who had someone trying to sell him a 17 year old pickup for $5,000 and a pump shotgun for $1200. It was one of the civilians who worked with us...had to politely but firmly tell that civilian to **** off.

 

[n1997y]

When's he gonna suit up again lol.... Bruschi can give him some advice.

He probably will want to suit up on Sunday. Doctors will probably prevent that. But it wouldn’t surprise me to see him walking on the field in street clothes.