The Cincinnati Bengals’ Week 17 game against the Buffalo Bills was canceled after Damar Hamlin collapsed on the field, scaring the entire football world.
Hamlin has since recovered and came back to Cincinnati for the first time since he recovered in the Cincinnati hospital Jan. 2 and was sent home.
He is doing a national CPR education tour, using his frightening experience for good and trying to bring something positive out of it. Hamlin called Cincinnati his third home, behind Pittsburgh, where he grew up and Buffalo, where he plays football now.
The night Hamlin collapsed, he was treated on the field, receiving CPR for over nine minutes, and being treated with an automated external defibrillator, or an AED.
AEDs were handed out to youth sports programs at the event Hamlin helped organize, according to Katie Kapusta of Spectrum news. Attendees also were taught CPR at the event as well.
It has only been six months since Hamlin collapsed at Paycor Stadium, but he has already been able to turn it into an experience that helps others, and changes lives.
Back in Cincinnati for the first time since the Monday Night Football game in January, Damar Hamlin called Cincinnati his "third home".
Hamlin is doing a national CPR education tour and stopped in Cincinnati today. pic.twitter.com/DMziSFoTUl
— Joe Danneman (@FOX19Joe) July 22, 2023
