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Schumacher has suffered a serious head injury
Topic Started: Dec 29 2013, 12:43 PM (3,076 Views)
Norbert
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It really is starting to sound extremely poor long term. The fact that several weeks ago the hospital said they'd not issue regular updates and only if something dramatic happened suggested to me that he is likely to be comatose for a very significant if not indefinite period of time. Some people have lived on like this for years then suddenly recovered, but I'm not sure about artificially induced comas. Hopefully there will be some positive news at some point, but it seems that this will be less and less likely.

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Norbert,Jan 23 2014
01:44 PM
It really is starting to sound extremely poor long term. The fact that several weeks ago the hospital said they'd not issue regular updates and only if something dramatic happened suggested to me that he is likely to be comatose for a very significant if not indefinite period of time. Some people have lived on like this for years then suddenly recovered, but I'm not sure about artificially induced comas. Hopefully there will be some positive news at some point, but it seems that this will be less and less likely.

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As the cause for Michael's coma is a head injury, then prognosis is directly proportional to the Glasgow Coma Scale score (GCS). The hospital did announce two weeks back that they would conduct several tests including electroencephalography. But no results have been published and we do not really have the right to know either. And we do not know either if they still keep him in barbiturate-induced coma or if they have already gradually withdrawn that. (Normal after 10-14 days) If coma sustains without barbiturate drugs its worrying the longer it lasts as prognosis for full recovery diminish fast first 3 months.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-25963926

Fingers crossed this is more positive news <thumbsup>

GO SCHUMACHER
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Just saw that, hopefully this is the beginning of his recovery.
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ELUSIVEJIM,Jan 30 2014
01:55 PM
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-25963926

Fingers crossed this is more positive news <thumbsup>

GO SCHUMACHER

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Positive thoughts winging their way Schumi-bound
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Norbert
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This sounds a bit more encouraging....

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/michael-schumache...surgery-1434551
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Good news indeed.
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-25...d-hospital.html

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Felipe Massa said he saw Michael Schumacher's mouth move as he spoke to him in hospital.
The racing driver said he feels 'very positive' about his friend's condition following a recent visit to the seven-time Formula One champion in hospital.
When asked about his friend's condition by journalists, Massa replied: 'He was sleeping, and I was very positive because he was normal.
'He looks normal, and he also gave some reactions with the mouth and everything. So it's positive to look at him.
'I have no experience to say anything. I'm not a doctor. But when I saw him, for me, it looked very positive.'
It is almost eight weeks since Schumacher was placed in an induced coma following a skiing accident.
He required two operations to remove blood clots from his brain following his fall in December.
Speaking to reporters at the Sakhir circuit, Massa said: 'I always try to be optimistic.
'I saw him, I talked to him, I told him everything I did in Jerez (at the first test), about my car, the new team (Williams), everything. I told him to wake up many times... I'm positive. We need to believe.
'It's always very difficult to say because I have zero experience about what the doctors say.
'But I saw him and was very happy to be together with him for a very long time, talking to him, trying to give the best energy and just help him.
'He's a very strong man, a very great man and I really hope he can wake up, and I really hope he can enjoy his life again.'

I think this is the first story from someone who has visited him with any detail. I am not sure what to make of it, at first it sounds good, then the final paragraphs sound like its said more in hope. The road to recovery is going to be a long one but i have hope too
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The medical team has tried to wake him up for long now.
And also had plenty of time to measure/analyse results on brain activity when stimulating MS in various ways. So they clearly have a good understanding of how severe the brain damage may be or not. Nothing coming out of facts/news is not a good sign at all.

Massa has always been a good kind guy, but also somewhat naïve.
But credit due as he showed the courtesy to visit and stay a while at MS's bedside.

Btw with the recent investigation into if the camera had caused the helmet to crack and not offering the protection as expected, none of the two components were found to be at fault. As a medical doctor from Grenoble explained in investigation, MS had hit the rock with the side of his head, not top of head first.
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I am perhaps the most staunch supporter of Shumi.

I have to say that based on what I know, it does not look good at all.

In fact it looks terrible. There is the prospect that he won't even know who he is when he wakes up.

I hope it is not to be that bad, but realistically we should prepare ourselves for the most likely.

It is not good at all
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It doesn't sound good at all.

I suppose live by the sword, die by the sword. Michael Schumacher never took issue with putting other people's lives at risk many times in his racing career.

I do wonder, as a believer in fate that this is karma catching up with him. As horrific as his demise has been, it's one that he has constructed himself.
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A bit of a stretch, as I don't recall Shumi causing a death in his racing career. And many others have been just as dangerous.

I really don't think this is a case of living by the sword and dying by the sword. Shumi likes potentially dangerous pursuits, and this was very unfortunate accident. It wasn't
constructed by Shumi any more than someone who has a fatal slip and fall in a bathtub.
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Rob,Feb 28 2014
08:29 PM
It wasn't constructed by Shumi any more than someone who has a fatal slip and fall in a bathtub.

I serously doubt that I will ever die from a skiing related accident, unless of course I go skiing one day.
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mikemagic,Feb 27 2014
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It doesn't sound good at all.

I suppose live by the sword, die by the sword. Michael Schumacher never took issue with putting other people's lives at risk many times in his racing career.

I do wonder, as a believer in fate that this is karma catching up with him. As horrific as his demise has been, it's one that he has constructed himself.

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If this is the end for MS it's such a strange epitaph, because compared to everything he achieved during his lifetime his gravestone might as well say

Michael Schumacher,
7 times F1 world champion
Died after slipping on a banana
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