The Michael Schumacher Career/Injury/Recovery Thread

Please remember that this thread is the digital equivalent of someone's hospital bed. If you were in such an environment, you would instinctively set a respectful level of decorum and refrain from employing profanity to sustain your side of a debate.

For other threads, feel free to swear and rely upon the profanity filter (never bypass it), but in this particular one let's please show our respect for both a sporting hero and one another by finding tactful and gracious ways to express ourselves.

Thread re-opened.

Sincerely,
Andrew.

 

You won't find Schumacher's name mentioned, but this is the most promising news I have seen in weeks:

Shocks to the brain temporarily rouse people from vegetative states

>8^)
ER

 

Guys, in the spirit of wishing the best for Schuey, let me say this . . . this thread is about MS, and our disagreements here are small potatoes compared to the battle he is having right now. Neuro has provided that prospective. Well done.

Get well, Michael.

 

Amen.

 

One thing all of us should do is take a look at the Photo in the NYT article of the area he was skiing and never forget that life is short and some risks are not worth taking.

Scroll down.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/28/sports/autoracing/two-months-after-michael-schumachers-ski-accident-hopes-for-his-recovery-dim.html?ref=sports&_r=1

Forza Michael!

 

If what these experiments suggest is true, " That said, brain scans show that some of these people have an inner life...".
It is indeed a terrifying and heartbreaking prospect.

 

Having looked again at the rocky area MS skied over and as being a pretty good skier myself, I would have probably given it a wide berth, now the reasons for this are :

1. depending on the time of day and how tired I was.
2. snow conditions apparently not too good.
3. show boating does not appeal to me now, as I am older and a bit wiser.
4. see no point in risking something I know I can do.

However on another day being pestered by my younger brother or nut case friends to follow them, yes I probably would go through it no problem, especially if I knew the area and done it many times before, as I assume MS had.

I maintain MS has just gotten really unlucky with his sequence of falling and hitting his head in a manner to sustain the injuries he has.

I suppose it is a lesson to us all, I really hope he can recover to the point that he will be happy with.

Hang on in there tough guy.

Oh and BTW thanks NeuroB for cooling things.

 

As I type, the once dominant, all-conquering Michael Schumacher lay on a French hospital bed in an induced coma – words that some 36 hours after his life-threatening skiing accident still seem difficult to believe.

At first the details of the off-piste incident were sketchy at best; first just a bump on the head, now, for Schumacher, an injury more life-threatening than any sustained at the wheel of a racing car.

At this time of hope and prayers for the life an inspirational sporting megastar, the story that follows is perhaps more relevant than ever before. For all the success and controversy, Michael Schumacher has always been a decent human being – no other sport star donated nearly as much as Schumacher to the Boxing Day Tsunami victims in 2004, for example.

The term ‘legend’ is used far too frequently and I feel it’s beginning to lose its worth as a result – perhaps befitting an age when winning a bicycle race or tennis match will earn you a knighthood – but with 7 World Championships and 91 Grand Prix victories, how can Michael Schumacher be described as anything less.

Statistics alone don’t prove greatness but when the figures include those 7 World Championships and 91 race victories, it is hard to ignore them. However, for some, Michael will be remembered as the ‘Red Baron’, the villain who swerved into Damon Hill at Adelaide 1994, purposefully crashed into Jacques Villeneuve at Jerez ’97 and parked his Ferrari at Monaco 2006 in an unsporting gesture to his competitors. But whilst reading the following tale – one that goes against the grain for any blogger, words written not by myself but the great journalist and author Gerald Donaldson – think not of the Red Baron, but of Michael, the fundamentally decent human being fighting for his life on that French hospital bed…

Michael is a nine-year-old Canadian boy with a lively mind in a
body severely crippled body by an incurable muscular disease. He
can’t walk and is confined to a wheelchair, nor can he speak
properly, though his loving family understands him. Yet Michael’s
handicap is no barrier when it comes to accommodating his main
passion in life: F1 racing in general and one driver in
particular.

At home in Toronto Michael spends most of his time in a bedroom
that is a shrine to his favourite driver. The wall facing the bed
is dominated by a hand-painted mural of a life-size car driven by
Michael’s hero, whose image is also depicted all around the room
in photos, posters, banners and other regalia. His parents and
younger brother decorated the room for him, but his father, a
construction worker, said Michael was the foreman on the job. On
Grand Prix Sundays, long before the race begins on television,
the family dresses Michael in a sweater and cap in the colours of
the driver who means the world to him.

Michael’s mother, who works as a secretary, arranges family life
around her son’s special needs and also tries to brighten his
life with special occasions. On one occasion, after saving up for
some time, the family was able to afford a journey to the
Canadian Grand Prix in Montreal, where the goal was for Michael
to meet his hero. Each day, in the morning and evening, they
stood patiently outside the entrance to the paddock, with Michael
fairly bouncing in his wheelchair, thrilled at the prospect of a
meeting that unfortunately did not take place. Though other
drivers came and went, the one they were waiting for never
appeared and the family went home disappointed.

But his mother, determined to make Michael’s dream come true,
persevered. She found out his hero used another entrance to the
paddock in Montreal. She was also told that famous F1 drivers are
besieged with so many requests and their time is so limited that
no matter how worthwhile the cause might be, their ability to
make individual dreams come true is very limited. Nevertheless,
Michael’s mother remained convinced that her son was a special
case, and that his hero would recognize this when he saw him. And
so the family returned to Montreal again, and early on the
morning of opening day they were waiting outside the paddock. But
so was a jostling, boisterous crowd of celebrity seekers and
autograph hunters, few of whom paid any attention to the small
family group – the anxious mother and father and two young boys,
one of them sitting twisted and contorted in a wheelchair.

Suddenly, the crowd became noisier and someone shouted that a
famous driver was arriving on the back of a scooter. The driver
jumped off and ran for the paddock turnstiles, followed by his
flustered personal assistant who said he was late for a meeting
with his engineers and had no time to stop. But he did stop, this
famous driver, and he pushed his way through the now silent crowd
of on-lookers and went directly to the family with the little boy
in the wheelchair.

Michael’s parents stood speechless and immobilized, unable to
come to grips with the fact that this famous driver had actually
singled them out for his individual attention. The driver quickly
took charge of the situation. He shook hands with both parents,
asked them for a pen to sign his name on their boys’ caps and
told them to take photos. Then he got down on one knee and put
his arm around little Michael in the wheelchair. He hugged him
closer and whispered in his ear: “Hi, your Mom and Dad tell me we
have the same name. Mine is Michael Schumacher and I am very
happy to meet you.”

(Photo taken by Mary, little Michael's mother)
(Photo taken by Mary, little Michael’s mother)
A man of Michael Schumacher’s decency and undoubted legend deserves to die an old man, having regaled tales of his successes to his Grandchildren and bore witness to the generations of racing stars he has inspired. The man who once mastered a Formula One car - mastered Formula One - cannot be felled by a mere ski. I, along with the rest of the world, wish him the speediest of recoveries.


MICHAEL SCHUMACHER | Venn Motor Sport
http://vennmotorsport.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/schumi3.jpg

 

Thank you so much for sharing this, I got very emotional while reading it and seeing the photo, Michael has to come through this with at least a good recovery where he knows his family and so that they can enjoy the rest of their lives together, I am not very good at putting things that I really feel into words so I hope you can understand what I am trying to say. I also along with the rest of the world wish him the speediest of recoveries.

 

+1M

 

I don't know if this has been raised already but rumor going around here that schumi had a gopro on his helmet and that it is this piece if equipment that caused the helmet to break, and it then either focused the impact or pierced the skull. Anybody heard this?

 

Beautiful moment in time! Thank you Remy Zero.

 

It's been mentioned already on here, and the thought from the people who were looking into it was that the camera may have caused the helmet to split.

They couldn't say it was the definitive cause, but said it was highly possible.

 

It was investigated and came to the conclusion the GoPro had nothing to do with it.

 

Someone should tell Schuey that Massa and Bottas went fastest in the Bahrain test! - That should shock him into waking up!

+ Another 1M

It's yet another of many tales that highlight the fact that, not only was Schuey an outstanding racing driver, but he is also an outstanding Human Being!

 

+1

Could not agree more !

God bless you Michael

 

Just sharing. We need to stay together, and pray together for our champion's recovery. Tempers flare, opinion differs, but we're all here posting and updating each other based on one objective : to see our hero get through this! Forza Michael!

 

Very well said sir!!

 

Absolutely. This thread has developed into a "Schumacher Support Group" and despite our human failings being glaringly apparent - we need to keep in mind the greater goal....and that is to wish-hope-and pray that Michael gets through this ordeal.

 

I still believe he will beat the odds.

Schumacher now unlikely to make a full recovery, say brain experts - Telegraph

 

Well-stated. Despite our differences we have come together under a common purpose and we can channel our energies, ultimately, into visioning a recovered Michael. What we envision in general tends to become what we experience. Let's give Michael the vision of the experience of a normal life again.

 

It's very possible he could beat the odds. C'mon, it's MS!!

 

When he does pull through, it wouldn't be the first time someone defied an expert doctor's opinion. It happens all the time. The doctor said, "S/he will never be able to (fill in the blank)", but...

 

Last I heard his docs hadn't said that.
Other "experts", but not his.

 

Mayor, although I agree with most of your posts, the facts are ;damage to both sides of the brain in a man in his 40s, a coma for two month with or without failed awakening. We gotta be realistic.