Schumacher, it's not looking good :-(

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/motorsport/formulaone/michael-schumacher/10683013/Michael-Schumacher-only-a-miracle-can-save-him.html

No surprises given how long he’s been out for 🙁

It mentioned on the radio yesterday that unless the report comes direct from his management team or his doctors they are unlikely to be accurate. Apparently a lot of misinformation has been coming for so called sources ‘close’ to the doctors/family etc.

Awful. Hopefully they’re wrong.

I know I read this in their paper today. Made my shoulders sag.

Tbh if there was any glimmer of hope Schu’s family would be over the moon to release it?

Getting more and more depressing.

Very sad, but if anyone has the drive, determination and fitness to make it through then it’s him.

favouredimage has it. anything that’s not directly from his medical team might as well be from a bloke down the pub. No news is no news, thats all. Keep fighting Michael.

there are amazing tales of people who had been in a coma and not given any hope of survival,but beat the odds.i wish him all the best in a full recovery.if his fitness is anything to go by he has a great start to get well again.

Either way it’s not looking good. Really sad news – truly awful for his family.

Hopefully the trolls will stay away from this Schumacher thread.

It’s a very sad situation. He has evidently sustained a very severe brain injury. Knowing a little bit about this kind of thing I’m not expecting a positive outcome i.e. one where he’s living independently and communicating as previously. Poor chap.

Happens many times every day in this country, mostly RTAs. Lots of people’s lives irrevocably altered in a split second, not just the patients, but friends and family too. There little more catastrophic for an individual than a severe acquired brain injury.

Some people do make great recoveries, and if Schumacher can than that’s great and I’ll be pleased and amazed, and he will have bucked the statistics. He can presumably afford the best rehabilitation if he gets a greater level of consciousness.

Terribly sad, think its time to let him go

Terribly sad, think its time to let him go

You mean the media and the armchair experts I hope?

Very sad. I think it was three weeks ago that Frenchnoress reported they where trying to bring him round gradually, then I’d heard nothing so was fearing the worst.

People in the know were thinking very early on that it didn’t look good for him. Best thing now for him would be to not make any form of recovery 🙁

There but for the grace of God go I.

Having seen my wife sustain and, thank God, ultimately recover from a brain injury I can imagine some, a little tiny bit, of what his family are going through. Horrible for all of them. May it turn out for the best – whatever that may be.

@Funky – well said. Surviving is not, sadly, always the best outcome.

All the millions that he has earned will simply be taken away from him in one single moment. I feel for the guy at the peak of his life.

I wish him speedy recovery.

I was hospitalised with a head injury from a big OTB crash about the same time as him. I have some big face scars, but jeez, it could have been so much worse…

I can also sympathise- my brother had a recent sports related head injury and was hospitalised, unconscious for 2 weeks before he was making any sense…
He was in hospital for a good 3 months, but seems to have made a full recovery, and is now (9 months later), eventually, back at work.
In my experience, on the brain injury ward, seriously makes me realize how lucky I/we were- many guys who were there (mostly in their 20s) had no chance of a full recovery. 🙁

The miracle thing seems likely to be just gossip

It isn’t looking good though

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Very sad. I think it was three weeks ago that Frenchnoress reported they where trying to bring him round gradually, then I’d heard nothing so was fearing the worst.

just commented yesterday to the other half that the last I’d heard they were planning to bring him out of the induced coma, then he seems to have dropped completely off the news.

There but for the grace of God go I.

and all of us that take part in risky activities, which is why the story is “close to home”.

Recent lack of news being interpreted badly by ex F1 doctor

Daily Telegraph: Do not expect good news

Actual blog post[/url]

Well, he knows what he’s on about if anyone does. 🙁

Awe, I was only thinking about him yesterday too.. 😕

Meh. Hartstein was writing him off in Feb, then was effusively optimistic when the “wakefulness and consciousness” news came out, and has now slipped back to pessimism. I’ve no doubt that the pre accident Schumi has gone but really all we know is that there’s no news.

So hartstein has pretty much said ‘I know nob all. Here’s some charts about something else’.

He’s fuelling the pressure on Schumacher’s family when they really don’t need it. He should just keep shtum until something concrete comes out.

Lack of news can mean anything. however the silence is deafening.

Schumi has always been very protective of his private life. The last update coincided with heightened interest at the start of the f1 season so I wouldn’t expect much until the German gp. For all we know he’s chatting to his wife and learning to walk again.

Out of hospital and not in a coma. Not much more than that for now.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-27868787

Wow 🙂

Though I guess with so little detail, maybe that’s assuming the best but fingers crossed it’s good news as things certainly didn’t sound good according to Gary Hartstein[/url] given the length of the coma.

Doubt we’ll get much more,but that’ll do me for now.

Yep, hoping for promising news to follow…

Much better news. A prayer for him.

Fantastic news for a Monday morning.

As for Gary Hartstein, I can’t help but think he has used it as an opportunity to raise his own profile having been dumped by the FIA!

Yes, I’m sure he has though to be fair, he’s been providing some very balanced explanations of the situation which has been very lacking in the mainstream reporting.

FWIW, he’s still doing FIA work, just not in F1.

It’s good news, but let’s hope that ‘out of coma’ actually means consciousness rather than PVS.

Brilliant news. I’ve said it up there ^ but it’s worth reiterating – Gary Hartstein should keep his beak out.

Edit: just seen that on June 4th he said he wouldn’t be writing about him any more

Aye fingers crossed for him

AP has a little more;

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/schumacher-leaves-french-hospital-out-coma

Heard on Radio 4 news too. Good luck to him.

While being out of a coma is good news, I’m still not convinced his condition is good news.

I’ve been through a brain injury to my mother, including a long coma, and rehab. She never really came back. While the extra 18 months we had with her were great, she was severely brain damaged.