Michael Schumacher's health condition has remained unknown owing to a media blackout that remains in his Swiss lakeside home. The restriction has created a calm in the racer's health updates and, in turn, painted a bad picture about his state.
Apart from irregular unconfirmed broadcasts and gossips, Schumacher's details of recovery are yet to be disclosed. His doctor and other physicians attending to him have chosen to remain tightlipped about the situation under strict directions from his family.
Consequently, fetching news from the heavily-guarded Schumacher's home has not been easy for news-hungry journalists. Reports have, once, shown journalists stretching their limits just to fetch information about the racer's health since his skiing accident.
According to Independent, a news reporter once dressed up as a priest in an attempt to gain access to Schumacher's hospital room, where he was battling for his life after his skiing accident. Since then, the insufficient news witnessed over the last two years have been attracting worries among his fans and the world at large.
But this has not prevented some few sources from channeling small bits of information. Recently, a neurosurgeon disclosed that Schumacher's health has gone from bad to worse in the past days, asserting that the seven-time Formula One champion's only chance of survival is through a miracle.
The unnamed Surgeon, who chose to remain in anonymity and, who is considered a reliable source, gave a statement that totally contradicted with the previous one given by Schumacher's manager Sabine Kehm. The manager had said in a statement that the racer was making progress and that the public should remain patient, Sportrageous reported.
Schumacher suffered a life-threatening injury on his head in a skiing accident in the French Alps. After the mishap, he was taken to Grenoble hospital, where he was placed under a medically-induced coma and operated to reduce the swelling on his head at the time.
It took about three months of excessive medical care and supervision to shift Shumacher to his home on the shores of Lake Geneva. Since then, nothing much has been heard about his health. Yet, pint-sized bits of information show that the 47-year-old has failed to recover quickly.
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