Damar Hamlin's Uncle Speaks Out On The Bills Player's Condition

Damar Hamlin is currently breathing through a ventilator after his January 2 cardiac arrest. In an interview with NFL Network, Dorrian Glenn, Hamlin's uncle, shared that his nephew's collapse partially damaged his lungs, although the safety is seemingly on the mend. Hamlin has reportedly gone from needing 100% to only 50% of oxygen from the ventilator. 

In another interview with CNN, Glenn praised the staff at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center. "Just to know like my nephew basically died on the field and they brought him back to life ... I'm just glad he's still alive and able to fight and trying to get better and recover," he said, sharing that he's "never cried so hard in my life." Despite Glenn also telling CNN that Hamlin's heartbeat was revived not once, but twice, on January 2, family friend Jordon Rooney clarified that Glenn misspoke.

While many factors could have caused Hamlin's cardiac arrest, some cardiologists suspect his heart was fine before his collapse, per NBC News. Instead, Hamlin's cardiac arrest could have been the result of him tackling the Cincinnati Bengals' Tee Higgins. In a rare phenomenon called "commotio cordis," Dr. Hari Tandri, "the director of the cardiac arrhythmia program at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tenn.," explained that a healthy heart, when met with blunt force at a specific time, can enter a potentially fatal rhythm.

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