Schumacher Suffers Serious Head Injury

[ChillDoubt]

Whilst ski-ing France, just flashing up on Sky News ticker.

[Hypognosis]

Best wishes to Schumi and family.

Seems like only yesterday when we were moaning about him winning everything all the time so it feels strange to feel sorry for him now.

I've never been skiing. From seeing it on tTV, I realise they don't use motorbike-grade helmets. Are they just as good, or less good, though?

[Sqad]

A typical story of an extradural haematoma ( blood clot)

Head injury, can be minor, followed by unconsciousness, then recovery of consciousness (Lucid interval) followed by lapse into unconsciousness again.

[Zacs-Master]

Yes Sqad, I believe he walked away from the incident.

[Sqad]

Zac..........it was the weekend too....they flew a neurosurgeon in from Paris and I bet that the local neurosurgical unit was p.ssed off....

[Peter Pedant]

The translator on the Beeb for the news conference is pretty terrible.

He does seem to have talked after the accident
and then after transfer became confused and a scan revealed 'trauma'
Ze fransh mentioned 'hemorrhagique' but this was not translated

He has had his procedure and now is having
hypothermic therapy - they say under local anaesthesia but I am pretty sure to do this efficiently you need to be on a ventilator

and oops they seem not to have got the family's permission to speak - oops !