Former NFL participant Peyton Hillis has been discharged from a Florida hospital, the place he spent weeks in intensive care after saving his kids 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 quantity of affection and gratitude I've for the unimaginable staff that took care of Peyton is indescribable. This image doesn't have anyplace close to the quantity of people that took such nice 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 during the last a number of weeks, Hillis was receiving remedy 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 highway to restoration" in an earlier Instagram publish shared on Jan. 11, about one week after the swimming accident.
"So pleased with this man and so extremely grateful for household and this unimaginable hospital. Peyton is off the ventilator and is on the highway to restoration," Cole wrote. "Please proceed to wish for he is nonetheless received a methods forward of him, however thanks for all your prayers and love and assist so far. It actually makes all of the distinction. At the moment was a great day."
Greg Hillis shared a equally optimistic replace about his nephew's well being standing across the identical time. In a Fb publish, he mentioned that though Hillis remained in intensive care at the moment on account of "some issues along with his kidneys and his lungs," medical doctors decided that his general situation was "enhancing."
"I simply wished to move off any rumors that could be began. I am positive he would need everybody to know that he appreciates all the prayers being thrown up on his behalf!!!" mentioned the publish.
Peyton Hillis left the hospital on Friday of final week, in keeping with Davis, who mentioned "every little thing well being sensible is trying 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 working again who performed for the Denver Broncos, Cleveland Browns, Kansas Metropolis Chiefs and New York Giants. His finest season got here in 2010, when he rushed for 1,177 yards and scored a complete of 13 touchdowns for the Browns.