Top Gear host in critical condition

Given his speedy recovery I'm sure he'll cut that down. I think they have shot most of that season anyway, so Captain Slow and Clarkson could do the rest.

What I wonder is more like whether the original reports were exaggerated where there was talk of serious brain injury? If you look at the pics of him moving to another hospital you see him with his full set of hair (assuming no wig). If he had a serious brain injury, they normally cut off all your hair, saw the skull open and allow the brain to expand and heal. In Roy (as in Siegfried and Roy)'s case they "stored" the skull under his stomach skin for the time being. I don't think any of that has happened to the Hamster (thank God!). Also he looked pretty normal, not like his head was in bandages etc. So I wonder whether those early reports simply were exaggerated.

 

A little bit of irony.. This was at the homepage of MSN..

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/15065046/?GT1=8506

Totally unrelated..but here's the title of the article:

"Hamster forces jet to make unscheduled stop"

 

Hope he turns out ok.

 

LOL

Brilliant and exactly what happened.

Or as Jeremy said to Hammond: You're just a crap driver.

 

You can have significant "brain injury" that does not require surgery. Certainly the skull removal you speak of if there is significant swelling, but you can have diffuse bleeding, contusion (i.e. bruising), or the ol' "diffuse axonal injury" with significant cognitive impairments, none of which are amenable to surgical intervention and can have horrible outcomes.

Hope they get Top Gear back on the air!

 

Thanks Dr. McSpikey, new cast member on Gray's.


Seriously that's interesting. So you're saying the early reports weren't necessarily over the top and we are looking a bit at a miracle here? Good nuff for me.

 

thats my favorite show ever, id be pissed if he died.

 

Sounds a little selfish.