Mercy Hospital’s director of sports medicine provides his perspective about the NFL player’s cardiac arrest incident.
ST. LOUIS — Bills’ safety Damar Hamlin’s condition kept the world on the edge of its seat on Friday.
The 24-year-old suffered cardiac arrest during the Monday night football game but showed improvement on Tuesday.
Parents of kids who want to be in his shoes one day and coaches that oversee these aspiring athletes have expressed concern, along with the young people themselves.
“Terrible and it’s hard to watch on any scale you know after going through some injuries myself. I think it makes it that much harder and I think it makes me that much more empathetic,” Faith Montandon, a Lindenwood University Soccer forward who grew up playing various sports, said.
She said she participated in basketball and volleyball, swimming, and dancing.
