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Title: F1 champion Michael Schumacher 'critical' after ski fall
Post by: Dostoyevsky on Sunday, December 29, 2013, 23:34:59
Sounds far worse than the earlier downplaying of the incident:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-25545993


Title: Re: F1 champion Michael Schumacher 'critical' after ski fall
Post by: Dostoyevsky on Sunday, December 29, 2013, 23:37:45
When I heard Jens Todt was at the bedside I thought we were not being told the severity of what has happened.


Title: Re: F1 champion Michael Schumacher 'critical' after ski fall
Post by: Batch on Sunday, December 29, 2013, 23:49:36
:(

Nothing more to say really.


Title: Re: F1 champion Michael Schumacher 'critical' after ski fall
Post by: Dostoyevsky on Sunday, December 29, 2013, 23:52:04
Eminent brain surgeon there because of massive swelling to the brain. This really does not sound promising.  :no:


Title: Re: F1 champion Michael Schumacher 'critical' after ski fall
Post by: 4D on Sunday, December 29, 2013, 23:55:51
Best wishes to him, nice guy.


Title: Re: F1 champion Michael Schumacher 'critical' after ski fall
Post by: ghanimah on Sunday, December 29, 2013, 23:58:27
I guess it goes without saying that here's hoping he makes a swift recovery but the news so far doesn't look good...


Title: Re: F1 champion Michael Schumacher 'critical' after ski fall
Post by: jonny72 on Monday, December 30, 2013, 00:32:25
Sounds pretty bad from the reports. Kind of reminded me of the first reports after Diana's car crash.

Hope its not as bad as it appears.


Title: Re: F1 champion Michael Schumacher 'critical' after ski fall
Post by: Chubbs on Monday, December 30, 2013, 13:10:29
Hope he pulls through, but judging by the recent reports its not looking good.


Title: Re: F1 champion Michael Schumacher 'critical' after ski fall
Post by: walrus on Monday, December 30, 2013, 13:28:44
Schumacher is a fighter.  I sincerely hope he pulls through.

Schumy was my original sporting hero.


Title: Re: F1 champion Michael Schumacher 'critical' after ski fall
Post by: Barry Scott on Monday, December 30, 2013, 14:28:27
Schumy was my original sporting hero.

I'd go so far as to say only.

He was why I continued to watch F1 and when he retired, I stopped watching.

My sister is really upset about this, she watched F1 with me and became addicted and a proper die-hard fan of Schumacher. She used to go to Silverstone every year and camp out.

For a few years, pre-9/11 I think, a friend of a friend got her tickets for the paddock and one year she met him. She saw him leaving a cafe of sorts and walked up to him as he was getting on his moped. She touched his arm, became tongue-tied and managed to say, "Michael," before she started bawling! I don't even think she got his autograph!


Title: Re: F1 champion Michael Schumacher 'critical' after ski fall
Post by: Leggett on Monday, December 30, 2013, 14:33:22
Fingers crossed for him, never his biggest fan but hope he pulls through.


Title: Re: F1 champion Michael Schumacher 'critical' after ski fall
Post by: leefer on Monday, December 30, 2013, 16:42:07
No one will know how bad it is untill(and if) he wakes from the coma...some people are in a coma for weeks wake up and incredibly are not to bad....small bleeds and swellings can lead to false hope and when the person awaikes they are in a bad way...it really is in the lap of the gods with this kind of injury.
Lets hope that he isn't to bad.


Title: Re: F1 champion Michael Schumacher 'critical' after ski fall
Post by: Not that Nice If I'm Honest on Monday, December 30, 2013, 18:43:41
I wonder if Damon Hill gave him a nudge ?


Title: Re: F1 champion Michael Schumacher 'critical' after ski fall
Post by: Gnasher on Monday, December 30, 2013, 18:49:58
Been through this with my dad (only he hit his head on a lorry doing 50  :doh:). Hopefully he makes a full recovery and retains most of this personality, for his wife and kids' sake.