Schumacher seriously injured

Let's hope we can still say "Happy new Year" by the end of the week. Don't give up Michael !
 
If one, he is tha one with tha real power, i pray for him and believe everthing will be fine again. I just hope he is really in good hands. Lucky for him our france frends are pro's in this case.
 
Can anyone explain this situation please?

When they say 'stable' and that he is in an 'induced' coma - does this mean they can bring him out of the coma whenever they want to (wake him up so to speak), and that they are just waiting for the right time (when they think things have calmed down/healed etc)?

I am desperate for Michael to get through this, but my family keep telling me not to get my hopes too high. I admit I have no knowledge of these kind of injuries but I'm still expecting Michael to recover.
 
I am no doctor and like all the other people i am only collecting the news bits. But i talked to some friends of mine who are actually working in the field and neuro profession and while the news says Michael is stable, that does not mean anything in terms of recovery. There seems to be no doubt that he suffered severe brain injuries which will take its toll on him even if he survives this. Of course anything is speculation at the moment and i wish him and any other person with these kind of injuries all the best and a good recovery, but one should not expect anybody to come out of anything like this 100% healthy, in fact normally far from that unfortunately....
 
Stable means they think they can keep him alive. It really says nothing about his actual condition, it's more a treatment term, that they don't need to treat like they were to maintain the condition.

Someone brain dead can be stable. Someone on breathing machines can be stable. Someone that will die if the machine keeping them alive is turned off, can be stable.

Worked at a hospital for a couple of years.
 
Okay, thank you for the info. It sounds like it could be a lot more in the balance than I thought. The doctors have used the word 'critical' a lot, which obviously doesn't sound good at all, but maybe when you keep hearing a word like that you start to block it out and focus on the better ones.

I guess we just keep hoping for the best then and wait for the next update.

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Tim Wheatley said:
Stable means they think they can keep him alive. It really says nothing about his actual condition, it's more a treatment term, that they don't need to treat like they were to maintain the condition.

Someone brain dead can be stable. Someone on breathing machines can be stable. Someone that will die if the machine keeping them alive is turned off, can be stable.

Worked at a hospital for a couple of years.
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Being dead is the ultimate stable level somebody could reach.
 
ForthRight said:
Okay, thank you for the info. It sounds like it could be a lot more in the balance than I thought. The doctors have used the word 'critical' a lot, which obviously doesn't sound good at all, but maybe when you keep hearing a word like that you start to block it out and focus on the better ones.

I guess we just keep hoping for the best then and wait for the next update.
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The latest press conference was a bit misunderstood. As mentioned above by Tim, he was listed as 'stable' (treatment) but his condition is still listed as 'critical'. He's not getting worse but not getting better either. Although the fact that he is stable is more good than it is bad. It has now been 4 days and the longer he remains stable the better his chances are, although certainly not out of the woods by a long way.

Another leading neurosurgeon has said that it may be at least two weeks before they know whether he will be able to survive.

The whole thing feels very surreal, Schumacher had this presence of invincibility about him.
 
I did running copy on my twitter feed of the second press conference -- go back to 31st December on my timeline:

https://twitter.com/Chris1603

Start from "New update on MSC's condition from the hospital due within the hour" and work up.
 
MikeeCZ said:
note the heat around brakes :)
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Note the two tyres not on the road! Incredible picture, incredible driver.


Edit Also the visible toe in, and it appears that the front splitter is torn in the middle through the Bridgestone logo. How that win might have gone had it torn in half, the fractions of racing, winning and losing. And the history lesson in the sponsorship on there as well. Back when the Marlboro cowboy was still cool, Vodaphone when phones weighed a kilo, had pull up aerials if you were posh and hardly anybody had one, Olympus before the bosses committed financial hare-kare, and before Shell stood for melt the arctic and frack you all. All in that one picture.
 
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i hope you win
Happy Birthday Michael

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Such a great picture. I hope he's stable enough to get a glimpse of that! :)
 
Murtaya said:
Note the two tyres not on the road! Incredible picture, incredible driver.


Edit Also the visible toe in, and it appears that the front splitter is torn in the middle through the Bridgestone logo. How that win might have gone had it torn in half, the fractions of racing, winning and losing. And the history lesson in the sponsorship on there as well. Back when the Marlboro cowboy was still cool, Vodaphone when phones weighed a kilo, had pull up aerials if you were posh and hardly anybody had one, Olympus before the bosses committed financial hare-kare, and before Shell stood for melt the arctic and frack you all. All in that one picture.
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And Mercedes would nearly destroy Chrysler and ...Fiat (!) would become owner of Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep (besides of Ferrari, Maserati, Alfa Romeo and Lancia).

BTW unfortunately artic is not melting and Shell (together with Exxon and several other big oil companies) is "fracking" (a gentle word for f&£%ing) us europeans out of our industry.

In 10-15 years chances are we'll shutdown everything.

We'll still make gorgeous cars like Ferrari itself and Lambo but no european will drive it.

Ah, still we have lot of coal...go figure. :p
 
Led566 said:
And Mercedes would nearly destroy Chrysler and ...Fiat (!) would become owner of Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep (besides of Ferrari, Maserati, Alfa Romeo and Lancia).

BTW unfortunately artic is not melting and Shell (together with Exxon and several other big oil companies) is "fracking" (a gentle word for f&£%ing) us europeans out of our industry.

In 10-15 years chances are we'll shutdown everything.

We'll still make gorgeous cars like Ferrari itself and Lambo but no european will drive it.


Ah, still we have lot of coal...go figure. :p
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Interesting.

In the 60s and early 70s, British were the kings of motor biking industry, along with the Italians.
Then came mr Honda who copied European knowhow and made the empire we all know.

The intriguing part is, I was an Italian bike fun, I had a MotoGuzzi Lemans and a Ducati Pandah.
I had a trip all around Europe, and while in Italy, I saw only one (1!!) Pantah like mine, all the rest were Japanese bikes.

After a lot of years, I was still an Italian fun, now in motorcars, so I had a Punto GT, the Turbo one.
Again, I crossed all Italy and I didnt see even ONE Punto GT, all I saw were BMWs, AUDIs, Clios and anything but Italian cars.
Yes I saw plain Puntos, but it seems if you guys dont buy your own stuff why should the rest do?

My god this is so out of OT, please excuse.
 
It's due to governments influencing prices by setting import and export duty, and bankers influence exchange rates, all about money and power not about supply and demand. It's a big horrible game of chess.

Anyway easy to go OT when you are waiting for good news.
 
I think OT in this thread is a bit unpolite. Just an opinion

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Schumi still in koma and there is a chance he might never wake up again
 
He probably will, but it will take a long time to rehabilitate to get him anywhere near of his former self... Maybe he'll never be the same again.
 
This is so sad. Can't believe stuff like this happens out of no where, I mean look at Paul Walker. I pray he pulls through this, the legend must live on.
 
lets hope with modern day medicine he will be up and around soon. wishing him and his family all the best in the hardest times of there lives.
 
I have done more reading and the statement "might never wake up again" is more like a press exaguration of the fact that people in coma longer than 2 weeks might suffer permanent damage, dont have to, but might, and they assume he is still in coma by the fact that the hospital has not annouced him awake (the hospital has been quiet)
So they are right, he might never wake up again, but that is the chance in any coma, even artificial one. Hopefully there will be some good news soon
 
http://formerf1doc.wordpress.com/ This guy explains it well and in detail, nobody knows what will happen to Schumi, it is just a waiting game. It is also unwise to listen to a single thing the daily mail puts out, always read another source for the info the DM leaves out.
 
The Daily Dose of Right Wing Hysteria/Propaganda Mail you mean?

No surprise they would want to earn money off a downed hero at all. They will be looking for as much misinformation as possible for the next 3 months.

I hope for his family he recovers. Paul Walker doesn't belong in the Schumacher thread. R.I.P. and all that but.... (if you need to ask why do it by PM or other thread)
 
Although I'm not really what you'd consider a fan of any particular team/driver, I do wish them all well on Sundays.
This news if true, is a huge blow and something I've dreaded since learning of Michael's fall.
To spend all those years in the car and only broken a leg then retire and fall on the slopes while spending time with his son, is just heartbreaking.
 
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Schumi still in koma and there is a chance he might never wake up again
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I asked a friend of mine, who has a double doctorate from Cambridge, here's what he explained about Schumacher's predicament;

He's been put into an induced comma, there is a big difference, they lower the body & brain temperature to around 33 C degrees to stop brain activity and they also manually pump the heart, this is to stop the dead area's of brain cells being activated, which if activated will release all their potential (far more than normal) to the next cell, which if it's a dead cell, will also release all it's potential too, if a live cell is triggered by a dead cell firing, it will overload the live cell and cause that to die too, which in turn will then release all it's potential causing the next cell to die and so on. The brain is put into an induced comma to stop this happening. They can bring him out of an induced comma by increasing his body temperature, but there's a risk that a dead cell may fire and trigger a catastrophic cascade of cell death causing further brain damage. They are hoping that the brain will fix itself and won't do this.

They can keep him in an induced comma for years if necessary and bring him out when they like, in contrast, a comma that is caused by an accident is due to a brain malfunction.
 
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TMoney said:
This is so sad. Can't believe stuff like this happens out of no where, I mean look at Paul Walker. I pray he pulls through this, the legend must live on.
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Thats life , I ran into a fellow that I havent seen in just on a year where he was as strong as bull and enjoying life at the age of 50 , well since then he has come down with some rare disease that attacks the nervous system and he looks like he is dying , just a stick figure in a wheelchair , poor man , makes one think how lucky one can be to be healthy and how fickle and cruel life can be in the blink of an eye .
 
Read the papers tday saying if Schu wakes up, it might not be the same Schu. :(
 
Papers will write all kinds of scenarios, even if just remotely possible - just to get your attention. It's how they make their living - by attracting attention.

For your own sake - don't pay attention to press. Not ever.
 
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