Good news out of Switzerland today as legendary formula one driver Michael Schumacher is no longer in a coma and has been transferred from a hospital in Grenoble to one closer to his home. Schumacher has been in the hospital since a December 29th skiing accident.
The 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,” his manager his manager, Sabine Kehm, said in a brief statement.
“The family also wishes to thank all the people who have sent Michael all the many good wishes. … We are sure it helped him,” it added. “For the future we ask for understanding that his further rehabilitation will take place away from the public eye,” it added.
A few weeks ago Kehm had released a statement that Schumacher was slowly showing signs of consciousness as doctors began waking him from the medically induced coma in late March.
Schumacher has been transferred from Grenoble University Hospital to the Lausanne University Hospital on Monday morning. The Lausanne hospital is much closer to the Schumacher family’s Swiss home. There he will continue his rehabilitation and recovery.
The exact condition of Schumacher at this time is not known, but the very fact that he is out of a coma is excellent news for him and his family. Kehm gave no further details of his condition or medical outlook, saying only that he would “continue his long phase of rehabilitation.”
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