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The Michael Schumacher Career/Injury/Recovery Thread

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  1. Drive550PFB

    Drive550PFB Two Time F1 World Champ

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    Ashton Kucher was doing a movie on Jobs and decided to follow the same diet as Jobs. He ended up with pancreatitis and gall bladder problems.

    (Guys, before you flame me, I read this on Reddit, so I have not looked in to it more than to read the Reddit thread.)

    But, either way, that new age **** will get you in trouble every time.
     
  2. finnerty

    finnerty F1 World Champ

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    Indeed...... death by ego
     
  3. GatorFL

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    Interesting, what did Jobs eat?
     
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    rdefabri Three Time F1 World Champ

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    Yup. I had a great uncle that fought pancreatic cancer 3 times and "beat it" (of course when it returned, it wasn't beaten, but he ultimately passed away at 89 cancer free). Knowing now what doctors and Jobs knew, it's maddening to think he could have beaten it.

    Steve Jobs' Cancer Treatment Regrets - Forbes
     
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    Lol. Brilliant.
     
  6. TheMayor

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    Classic case of someone thinking they were smarter than everyone else --- and finding out tragically they weren't.
     
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    Luckily I only suffer from the former.

    It's a curse.
     
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    Just to add a note.

    My mother survived Pancreatic Cancer in 2008 using the Whipple procedure.

    She was on her death bed for five months in a hospital room but eventually pulled through and has been cancer free since.
     
  9. Drive550PFB

    Drive550PFB Two Time F1 World Champ

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    On Reddit, they called it Frutarian. Said he named the company "Apple" because he was frutarian.
     
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    Glad to hear she survived and is doing much better. I've had the chance to help out on a few whipple procedures in med school during my surgery rotation. Quite a long procedure. Really unfortunate the general surgeons (as a whole) are such undervalued by the ins cos. Unreal how little reimbursement they get from such a life saving surgery that they perform.
     
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    Doesn't make sense. It's not the room that is the expensive part about an ICU stay. Yeah, a a ventilator can be $50,000. The monitors are pricey as well. The real cost is the actual hospital itself. MRI machines with 24/7 operations, CT scanners, cath labs, consultants with 24 hour call coverage within short driving range if not on-site, etc.

    But if she doesn't plan on ever taking him off life support and wants him at home knowing he will never get better...it makes sense.
     
  14. GordonC

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    That would make sense - they can afford it, a specially equipped room in their house along with the round the clock nursing care he will require. Now that his condition appears to have stabilized and, as best we know, it looks like he will remain in a coma for the near term if not long term, he can't stay in the Grenoble hospital forever.

    Dr. Gary Hartstein wrote about just this in his recent blog entry earlier this week: Odds and ends | A Former F1 Doc Writes

     
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    I can't see her EVER pulling the plug for religious reasons alone, not to mention she's devoted to him.
     
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    I think its kind or eerie,weird and beyond devotion. If your spouse was functionally dead would you want him or her housed in a room to gawk at from time to time? I would think it would add to the misery of all involved. I think the hope part is all but gone but the letting go will not take place for a while it seems.
     
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    I find this hard to believe since I would imagine he has a living will and I can't imagine that he wanted to be on machines for the rest of his life.
     
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    What if the doctors give her hope that he's recovering?
     
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    Hopefully that's the case and what is actually being built at home is a rehab center rather than a vegetable crisper.
     
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    Just still seems all unreal to me.
     
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    I doubt that a living will existed because there is no way Michael would wish this current situation to continue, I venture no one else on this site would either. Where is the dignity is this type of treatment. By the way Lenin is still lying is state at the Kremlin looking as fresh as he did on the day he died 90 years ago.
     
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    Depends on how hot one's spouse is... ;)
     
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    It's hard to imagine that a living will didn't exist considering the dangers Michael faced in all the extreme sports. I like to think this means he is not a vegetable living off machines and that there is enough improvement to warrant continued care. Of course without an update from the family it's impossible to know one way or the other but it seems to make more sense than Michael of all people not having a living will.
     
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    +1

    So sad.
     

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