The Michael Schumacher Career/Injury/Recovery Thread

Yep, it certainly is a head scratcher.

 

He improved dramatically following the treatment. Something like 30% of his dead brain cells from the strokes were regrown which resulted in him regaining key quality of life abilities such as speech, mobility in limbs that were previously paralyzed, ability to stand, hold intelligent conversations, etc. He improved enough to go out to dinner and tell a few good Hitler jokes haha. Well, it’s been a year since he had the treatment and the positive impacts from it lasted about 8 months (he was on his death bed with a prognosis of weeks prior to the treatment). In addition to strokes he has vascular dementia, so the dead brain cells were regrown through the treatment, but slowly overtime they were killer again by the vascular dementia as it continued progressing through the brain. The treatment as I understood it works best in patients who have dead brain cells or lack of brain cells grown from birth for conditions like cerebral paulsey, which is NOT a progressive disease and regrown brain cells will stay regrown, whereas if you have a progressive disease like vascular dementia, then eventually the cells will be killed again as the disease continues to progress. I have nothing but good things to say about the treatment. As a result my father effectively went from his death bed to gaining an additional 8-9 months of great quality of life.I’m debating right now whether to go with him for a second round of treatment, but it’s a difficult decision. The treatment extended his lifespan with a good quality of life, what more can you can ask for. I wish the time was longer than 8 months, but if we didn’t do the treatment he would have been gone a year ago.

 

Good to hear it worked, if only for a limited period, I hope you can get another treatment for him.
I also hope this treatment will be made available for the average Joe soon, my 42 year old colleague just had a stroke, it's quite devastating.

 

https://www.yahoo.com/news/german-investigators-detain-2-men-145544678.html

People suck

 

So Michael attended his daughter's wedding a couple of days ago in a private setting. ALL cell phones were turned in during this private ceremony with the family.

Good to see he was able to attend.

 

Wow not sure in what state of being but glad he’s still around.

 

has this been confirmed in any way?

 

Google "michael schumacher daughter wedding"

 

the most credible source I've seen running this story is the Daily Mail, so get out the salt shaker.

 

Sadly I have absolutely no hope about a decent recovery for him.
Mick’s words about him at the end of his Netflix documentary was hopeless in this respect..

 

Yeah, several articles are running the same story.......IF true.

 

I think the rumors about him being at the wedding are true, but that doesn't mean anything, to be honest. Jean Todt said, that Schumi is understanding and noticing things around him 2 years ago.

 

so does he have 'locked-in syndrome?

 

Jackie Stewart charity helmet signed ? Presumably the nature of the story has to give it some credibility

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/formulaone/article-14602723/Michael-Schumacher-signs-Jackie-Stewart-crash-helmet-charity-auction.html

The newspaper reported that Schumacher had been helped to write the initials MS on the white helmet featuring the Stewart tartan that the Scot wore while racing in the 1960s and 70s.

A spokeswoman for the Schumacher family confirmed to Reuters the details were correct.

 

All living F1 world champions, including Michael Schumacher and Sir Lewis Hamilton, have signed this helmet. It is to be worn by Jackie Stewart for a tribute lap today in Bahrain before being auctioned off for charity [Race Against Dementia].



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That’s remarkable news. I heard Corinna had to help him a bit but even if he has some level of fine motor function I am glad for him as it means he’s not totally incapacitated

 

So Corrina helping him sign Jackie Stewart's helmet was Corrina's hand over Schumacher's hand. That's how you help someone sign with "special needs."

 

You’re right we don’t know. We can only be hopeful he has some quality of life and level of communication. Take it how you will but I’ll take it as better news. Corinna has been a champion herself in dealing with this, a prisoner to the situation.

 

Unfortunately that's how I read it as well. Corinna holding Michaels hand whilst putting down a signature is not something I'd call amazing. It makes me quite sad to be honest.

 

When Corinna says, "they do therapy together", while I have an idea what that means we'll just never know the totality of it all, at least for now. Some who have suffered serious brain injuries do indeed have motor function, some even with fine level motor function, all while being unable to speak clearly. So, 'therapy' could be working with what they have moving, or just getting Michael out of bed to work his body so he doesn't have bed sores. Either way it's rough.


I've dealt with and seen many head injuries over the last 20 years in dealing with large exposure civil torts. Lots of motorcycle injuries with hard blunt head strikes at speed, but full or 90% recoveries had after a couple years. Neurologists on record in depositions saying some of these guys are walking talking miracles. These were incidents any normal person wouldn't expect anyone to walk away from let alone even partially recover due to the level of brain surgeries had after these incidents. What's wild to me about this remains the situation itself, he's got a helmet, a really good helmet, not going fast, but he hit his head on that rock just right that it sent him down for life. Utterly baffling compared to the stuff I've seen people recover from.

 

So Schumacher's brain, after his head (helmet) hit the rock, hit his cranial structure (front part), then his brain hit the back part of his cranial structure after hitting the front part thereby bruising both sides of the brain. There's a latin term for this specific type of mishap.

After the hit, Schumacher came to a couple of times while being helo'd to the nearest hospital but while arrival to the hospital, he was out. Surgeons proceeded to drill a whole threw the cranial cavity to release the pressure on his brain and induced coma to Michael. It was already too late as once the brain is bruised(both areas) due to the double impact within the cranial cavity, it's hard to revive those certain portions or quadrants of the brain.

I believe an actress or a female, someone famous since I can't remember, died the next day after she hit her head. She was walking about like nothing happened and then the next day she was dead.

Mind-boggling.

 

Probably Natasha Richardson. Also skiing (in Canada). Refused treatment (“felt fine”) at the time, but started getting headaches a few hours later and was flown to NYC for hospitalization. Died two days later.

 

Both Mark Donohue and Ronnie Peterson seemed to be fine when they were lifted from their crashed cars, but the next day, both were dead.

 

Donohoe yes.

Peterson's case was a different situation that resulted in his death I believe.