Michael Schumacher suffers 'serious' head injury

I was hoping you'd show up for that. That's what I was looking for. Thanks.

 

The greatest driver I've ever seen ... and I've seen them all in nearly every discipline if they raced from the mid-80s onward. Not my favorite, but a true great.

I hope he pulls through.

 

Not a F1 fan myself, but it would royally suck to see a guy who survived at least one major crash on the track check out by going Sonny Bono on a black diamond. Hopefully he'll pull through.

 

Anybody else think this was one of those hoaxes when the news first broke? It seemed like a different celebrity was dying on a ski slope each week on Twitter last winter.

 

Liberal rag says he's fighting for his life:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/31/sports/autoracing/schumacher.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1388419397-s9uCICVNZ9wzSkxYVz053g

 

Almost four weeks later, he's still in a coma and it's looking bleak.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/motorsport/9642007/Schumacher-unlikely-to-regain-all-faculties

Utterly tragic.

 

Dr. Gary Hartstein, the former F1 doctor, has been writing about what is very likely going on with Schumacher. It's very in depth and ultimately very, very sad.

http://tinyurl.com/mmor625

 

Seven-times Formula 1 motor racing world champion Michael Schumacher, who suffered serious head injuries in a December skiing accident, is making progress and showing signs of waking from an artificial coma, his agent said on Friday.

"Michael is making progress on his way. He shows moments of consciousness and awakening," Sabine Kehm said in a statement.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-michael-schumacher-accident-recovery-20140404,0,2815900.story

 

That is great to hear. Pray the improvement continues.

 

Great if true and leads to a full or near-full recovery. Don't mistake "waking up" for "He's going to be just like he was before."

 

I wish him the best, but I just wonder how much of a person's former self they regain after something like this. I'm not talking about begin a race driver or even a skier. I'm just talking about living your daily life and interacting with your family and friends. (All that from a medical point of view. I'm sure you don't come out of a long coma as if it were a good night's sleep.)

 

Unfortunately, from all I've seen, there seems to be very little chance he regains any quality of life. He was in remarkable physical shape, so if anyone could do it it's Schumacher... but the odds seem terribly remote.