Racing legend Michael Schumacher's recovery is reported to be currently uncertain. While recovering, his treatment cost has ballooned over $15 million.
According to reports, the seriously injured racing legend is being cared in his homeland Switzerland after being released from a French hospital last September 2014. However, his recovery is slow as the insider said. With him are a 15-medical team caring with the advise of Professor Jean-Francois Payen, who operated him to his blood clots in Schumacher's brain after the accident in Meribel. Payen has been a constant companion of Schumacher's family and stayed with Schumacher when he was everywhere in the world.
"Progress is painfully slow ... There is no miracle on the horizon," an insider said.
Since his release from the hospital, his family maintained news blackout in his medical condition. However his friend, Phillipe Streiff, revealed that Schumacher was paralyzed, in wheelchair, and suffered from memory and speech problems. But these claims were denied by Schumacher's management. He is cared in his Swiss mansion home on the shore of Lake Geneva while remained mute with "limited awareness" in his surrounding environment and unable to walk.
Peter Hamlyn, the consultant neurological and spinal surgeon and the expert in the field of head injuries in sport mentioned that the superstar's family is facing that kind of torture [same with the public] is that fact that Schumacher's progress is really slow. He said, "What tortures the public is the same thing that tortures the family - progress is slow, progress is uncertain."
He added the kind of rollercoaster ride that Schumacher and his family is facing. "It's a rollercoaster and it Michael Schumacher's rollercoaster takes him and his family somewhere happyn then they will have been to places that will have been pretty unhappy on the way there. But I know they will have been buoyed by all the support that has been voiced."
Payen expressed his admiration to the exceptional willpower of Schumacher's wife, Corinna. He mentioned that "she knew the seriousness of the situation and the long road that lay before them." He added that she displayed much effort to give everything that can help improve her husband's condition.
Reportedly, Schumacher is massaged for hours to stimulate muscle mass and he is assessed every hour for every possible improvements.
His friends expressed their tributes by prayers and hopes that the family can pull through these extremely difficult times.
Schumacher has suffered from a traumatic brain injury in December 2013 after hitting his head on a rock when he had Ski accident with his son in the French Alps that lead to a nine-month coma. Currently, he has now awake from the comatose. No further details about his real conditions are revealed because of the media-blockout.
Family spokesperson Sabine Kehm said that Schumacher needs a long time - a long and a hard fight. To Streiff's claims, she cited that she cannot confirm the report since Streiff has not been in contact with the family so, the family didn't know where he got all the information he has mentioned to the media.
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