Amidst Damar Hamlin’s encouraging health update, the University of Cincinnati Medical Center held a press conference on January 5 elaborating on the athlete’s condition. As journalist Josh Marshall re-capped on Twitter, Hamlin reportedly asked doctors upon awakening, “Who won the game?” Per CNN, Dr. Timothy Pritts, vice chair for clinical operations at UC Health, recalled that one doctor answered, “Damar, you won. You’ve won the game of life.” Given that Hamlin was still intubated, doctors clarified per a follow-up tweet by Marshall, that all his questions “were in writing.”
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With doctors denying “that Hamlin had to be resuscitated again at [the] hospital,” as per earlier reports, the UC Medical Center staff also shared that Hamlin was intubated on the field, per Marshall’s tweet. So far, no signs of neurological impairment or damage have been detected with the 24-year-old. “So, we know that it’s not only that the lights are on, we know that he’s home. And that it appears all cylinders are firing within his brain,” Pritts shared with CNN. For Hamlin to make a true recovery, however, Pritts said that he would have “to be completely breathing on his own and to be ready to be discharged from the hospital.”
