Former NFL participant Peyton Hillis has been discharged from a Florida hospital, the place he spent weeks in intensive care after saving his youngsters from drowning in a lake, his girlfriend and sister mentioned on social media.
“God is so good!” wrote Angela Cole, Hillis’ girlfriend, on Instagram Saturday, captioning a photograph that appeared to have been taken inside a room at Baptist Hospital in Pensacola. In it, Cole and Hillis are smiling and surrounded by a medical care staff.
“Peyton has been discharged from the hospital,” Cole wrote. “The amount of love and gratitude I have for the incredible team that took care of Peyton is indescribable. This picture does not have anywhere near the amount of people who took such great care of him.”
He was admitted to the Gulf Coast hospital in early January, after he — alongside along with his sister, Hayley Davis, in keeping with their uncle, Greg Hillis — rescued his youngsters from drowning at a seashore within the space. As Cole, Davis and Greg Hillis famous in separate social media updates over the past a number of weeks, Hillis was receiving therapy within the hospital’s intensive care unit and, for a time, utilizing a ventilator.
Cole reported that Hillis had been taken off the ventilator and was “on the road to recovery” in an earlier Instagram publish shared on Jan. 11, about one week after the swimming accident.
“So proud of this man and so incredibly grateful for family and this incredible hospital. Peyton is off the ventilator and is on the road to recovery,” Cole wrote. “Please continue to pray for he’s still got a ways ahead of him, but thank you for all of your prayers and love and support thus far. It truly makes all the difference. Today was a good day.”
Wesley Hitt / Getty Images
Greg Hillis shared a equally optimistic replace about his nephew’s well being standing across the identical time. In a Facebook publish, he mentioned that, though Hillis remained in intensive care resulting from “some problems with his kidneys and his lungs,” docs decided that his total situation was “improving.”
“He’s still in intensive care and having some problems with his kidneys and his lungs but the doctors say he is improving,” Greg Hillis mentioned. “I just wanted to head off any rumors that may be started. I’m sure he would want everyone to know that he appreciates all of the prayers being thrown up on his behalf!!!”
Hillis left the hospital on Friday of final week, in keeping with Davis, who mentioned “everything health wise is looking good and has all improved.” She referred to as her brother’s restoration “a miracle.”
Hillis, who simply turned 37 on Saturday, is a former NFL operating again who performed for the Denver Broncos, Cleveland Browns, Kansas City Chiefs and New York Giants. His greatest season got here in 2010, when he rushed for 1,177 yards and scored a complete of 13 touchdowns for the Browns.