Former NFL star Peyton Hillis discharged from hospital weeks after rescuing kids from drowning at Florida beach

Former NFL player Peyton Hillis has been discharged from a Florida hospital, where he spent weeks in intensive care after saving his children from drowning in a lake, his girlfriend and sister said on social media.

"God is so good!" wrote Angela Cole, Hillis' girlfriend, on Instagram Saturday, captioning a photo 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 team.

"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."