Michael Schumacher seriously injured

Ceryndrion said:
While I hate to say it, it is starting to sound as though perhaps he will end up in a similar situation to Stephen Hawking.
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Completely the other way around, Stephen Hawking largely still has full control of his mental capacity.

Even with the best possible scenario its going to take atleast another year before Schumacher's brain is really working around and/or fully fixing the damage and thats assuming its within its capabilities to fix (which is more hopeful if its due to blunt force trauma).
 
The thing I never heard was did he suffer brain cell death from lack of blood flow, just how bad is that. I hear after stroke you just have to learn to redirect work to different parts of your brain and you wont get back cells you've lost.
I just wanted to know can he progress from now or was the injury too great, if he has this reaction I know its sad but I'd take hope he can react and recover, progress in time hopefully.
 
silversurfer said:
The thing I never heard was did he suffer brain cell death from lack of blood flow, just how bad is that. I hear after stroke you just have to learn to redirect work to different parts of your brain and you wont get back cells you've lost.
I just wanted to know can he progress from now or was the injury too great, if he has this reaction I know its sad but I'd take hope he can react and recover, progress in time hopefully.
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If he is genuinely recognising people it does give a good hope of eventual recovery of some capabilities though without more details impossible to say what.
 
I read today the wife is selling the jet and the holiday home worth in the region of £25M.
Has there been any concrete statement or information regarding Michael's actual condition?
Anyone know?
 
CaptainRAVE said:
Just goes to show that money isn't everything. Such a shame.
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Yeh, if you haven't got your health, everything else is pretty meaningless.

From the DM:

Former F1 world champion Michael Schumacher's wife has sold their £25million jet and holiday home as she accepts that her husband will never fully recover from a brain injury.

The former Ferrari racer's wife, Corinna, believes he will 'never fully recover to enjoy them again' after a life-changing skiing accident in the French Alps in 2013.

Schumacher spent months in a coma and now requires round the clock care at his mansion in Gland, Switzerland.

Doctors say the 46-year-old has made little progress. He is immobile and can't speak and is looked after by a team of carers.*

Corinna, 46, is also considering selling their chalet at Meribel in the French Alps.

A report in Germany, Schumacher's home country, said: 'She knows her husband, who requires care and therapy around the clock, will never enjoy these things again.

Corinna has reportedly taken over her husband's £500million business empire, while he is unable to manage his own interests as he receives treatment for his injuries.*

The same report in Germany, says: 'As a woman, she is alone. Alone in a golden empire.'

In German magazine Bunte, they write: 'Corinna had to act.'

Schumacher was one of the most successful F1 drivers in history, winning seven world championships - more than any driver in history.

He became the only driver in Formula One history to finish in the top three in every race of a season and then also broke the record for most consecutive podium finishes.

According to the official Formula One website, he is 'statistically the greatest driver the sport has ever seen'.
 
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Yep, despite what people say, he is the best f1 of all time.

And that must be living hell. I would rather be dead than totally paralysed and unable to talk, trapped in your own body.
I keep thinking I should make an Advanced Decision to Refuse treatment for something like this. But it's just so macabre.
 
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Do we know whether he knows what's going on around him ? Like you say Glaucus it would be a living hell being trapped inside a useless body & not even being able to communicate.
I hate thinking about this & it upsets me every time I see this thread come to the top, I have to look hoping for some good news but there's never any good news just more sadness & heartache. Must be terrible for his wife, Kids family & everybody that is close to him.
I can't & won't let myself believe that this is the end for him & I pray for some kind of recovery even if it is wheel chair bound I want him to be able to have some kind of life.
How can the greatest ever F1 driver end up like this after he's retired, Gutted. :(
 
If he can communicate by blinking, then I hope there are plans to get him a machine like Stephen Hawking's one - so at least he could express his wishes / needs in a more "human" way.
 
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