ACCORDING to reports, Formula One great and seven time F1 champion, Michael Schumacher, is no longer in a coma and has been discharged from the French hospital, where he had been receiving treatment since a skiing accident in December last year.
No further information has been given regarding his condition, or where he will be taken from there.
The 45-year-old German driver was hospitalised with severe head injuries after his December 29 ski accident at the Meribel Ski Resort in the French Alps. The accident occurred when Schumacher hit his head on rocks on the slope, splitting his helmet and furthermore causing extensive cranial damage.
Schumacher was placed in an induced coma by doctors in Grenoble, to rest his brain and decrease swelling. Thereafter they operated to remove blood clots, some were however too deeply embedded.
Although Schumacher’s family “would like to explicitly thank all his treating doctors, nurses and therapists in Grenoble as well as the first aiders at the place of the accident, who did an excellent job in those first months,” according to a report by his spokesperson, Sabine Kehm, it was added that further rehabilitation will take place away from the public eye.
Very little information has been released on Schumacher’s condition over recent months, with this statement being the first substantial update since Kehm said in early April that Schumacher “shows moments of consciousness and awakening.”
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