He Has Been In Coma For 7 Months. What Does The Future Hold For Michael Schumacher?

The sport has continued its relentless rhythm unsure of what the future holds for its record-breaking former world champion, Michael Schumacher with the most recent update on his condition on the eve of June's Austrian Grand Prix travelling round the F1 community like Chinese whispers.
"Michael has left the [hospital in] Grenoble to continue his long phase of rehabilitation," read the
June 16 statement from Schumacher's long-time manager and the family's spokeswoman Sabine Kehm.
"He is not in a coma anymore," added the statement, which was oblique enough to be left open to interpretation
Interest in Schumacher's state of health is so intense that stolen medical files that may belong to the German have been offered for sale.
"Even people in the paddock who should be quite close have the feeling that we don't know what's going on," Schumacher's biographer and respected F1 journalist Karin Sturm told CNN.

"The policy of the family is to keep everything very, very private. Perhaps Corinna [Schumacher's wife] maybe doesn't realize is that by this policy speculation is growing. "There is a lot of public interest, they are concerned. A bit more information about what his current state of health is would be welcomed."
The difficulty with complex head injuries is that there is no predictable prognosis or timeline for recovery.
In the immediate aftermath of the accident at the French Alps resort of Meribel, neurosurgeons operated on Schumacher twice to remove blood clots and reduce swelling on his brain before placing him in a medically induced coma.
In April, a statement from the family said the 45-year-old had shown "moments of consciousness and awakening."
Last month, it was announced he was out of the coma and would continue his recovery at the University hospital in Lausanne close to the family home in Switzerland.
"What tortures the public is the same thing that tortures the family --progress is slow, progress is uncertain," said Peter Hamlyn, a consultant neurological and spinal surgeon and expert in the field of head injuries in sport.
"If you look at severe head injury victims who go on to make a good recovery -- and I'm not saying all do -- it will always be a story of years.
"The first months are dominated by questions of survival. Gradually as the weeks and months go by those questions of survival turn into questions of the quality of survival.

Source: CNN News