The world has totally changed in just a few months, but there must be a place where it seems that nothing has happened and where the main concern is not the coronavirus pandemic. A house full of hospital instruments and devices, a medicalized headquarters in the form of a mansion, located either in Mallorca or in the Lake Geneva (Switzerland), from which not the smallest detail escapes about his patient, Michael Schumacher (January 3, 1969, Hürth-Hermülheim, Germany). Possibly, the doctors who assist him will wear a mask or a plastic screen as a new outfit, gloves to prevent the most successful pilot of all time, in unknown conditions, from catching the virus that has confined the entire world. Not Michael, who must continue there, fighting to recover from the ski accident that changed his life that Damn December 29, 2013, at Méribel station , in the French Alps. A moment from which the information that is known about the seven-time F1 world champion is rather little.
In fact, any details that can be given about the current state of health of ‘Schumi‘can not be more than a pure assumption, or a conclusion formed on the basis of the statements made by some of the friends who have visited him in these more than 6 years of his new life. All this, due to the will of his wife, Corinna Schumacher, from not reveal any details about Michael’s evolution and recovery , out of respect for her figure and to leave the family calm in such a delicate moment. Although possibly, said silence has caused the opposite effect to the desired one, and that is that whatever is said about Michael, any rumor or statement about its possible status, becomes news of impact throughout the world.
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Only on rare occasions has the family broken the silence. As in January 2019, one day before its 50th anniversary, when the Schumacher family issued a statement to remind that “Michael is in the best hands” and to ask, once again, that the fans respect the family’s right to privacy regarding the situation of the German champion. And it is that as his wife pointed out last year Corinna, is only “following Michael’s will to keep a subject as sensitive as health as it has always been, private.”
“Michael did it all for me. I will never forget to whom I have to be grateful and that is my husband Michael ”she commented then in the magazine ‘She’s Mercedes Magazine’.
A super hero
Michael was (before the accident) considered a Super Hero for many. Especially in Italy for his 5 championships with Ferrari, where he is remembered with nostalgia and much affection for the closeness he showed with all the employees of the factory and the closest environment of the team of Maranello.
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Without going any further, in 2018, MD visited the Italian town and passed by the famous ‘Ristorante Montana’, where before, when there were no test limits, the pilots stayed and tasted the famous pasta of their favorite cook, Rosella, nicknamed ‘Mamma Rosella’ because of the ‘fault’ that Schumacher had for her. The Italian could not contain her sadness when speaking of German and unintentionally, the result of a common mistake, referred to it in the past tense. “Michael was …” Then he would realize it and return to the present. “Michael is …”. And it is that although his eyes would shine for the bad situation that is sensed that it is happening Schumacher, We must talk about it in the present tense since it has not been specified in what state it is.
Report of the Montana ristorante, a place where many Ferrari drivers, such as Michael Schumacher or Fernando Alonso, have eaten.
Mamma Rosella poses for MD
An accident full of bad luck
We have not seen ‘The Kaiser’ for almost 7 years due to a paradox of life. He had always challenged her by going at more than 300 km / h on tracks that in the beginning did not have the security of now. He challenged death with a total of 307 Grand Prix contested in F1. In its glorious years it seemed indestructible. A superman capable of everything and of power with everything. But life itself took off the cloak and reminded everyone that no one is untouchable. Not the one capable of conquering the world 7 times. He did it in a strange way unthinkable for a physical wonder like Michael, with a ski accident in which he hit his head. “I’m not a legend, just a lucky guy, who has been where he needed to be at the right time,” Schumacher once said. But that time, in that instant, that phrase ceased to be true.
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The accident caused serious brain injuries for which he was operated twice. He was up to 6 months in induced coma. And later he was transferred to the hospital in Lausanne, Switzerland, before they took it to his Swiss mansion, now turned into the closest thing to a medical center.
In her, Michael has multi-million dollar cares that according to various media they would be gradually depleting the family fortune. According to information published in 2019 by the ‘Daily Mail’, the cost of healthcare professionals and cures that ‘El Kaiser’ receives day after day amounts to £ 50,000 a week.
Michael Schumacher, in 2011 in Brazil
Absolute silence
Since then, it is common that when you tell people that you work covering Formula 1 information, everyone ends up asking you for the same thing: How is Schumacher really doing?. That question is always in everyone’s initial repertoire. It is but the perfect example that demonstrates the great interest that everyone has, not just lovers of F1, by really know the state of a Michael about whom the family has practically not wanted to say anything.
In fact, on January 3, 2019, a day before the 7-time world champion turned 50, the family issued a statement in which they only stated that “you can be sure that he is in …