{"id":20843,"date":"2014-01-29T07:01:22","date_gmt":"2014-01-29T12:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=20843"},"modified":"2014-01-29T07:01:22","modified_gmt":"2014-01-29T12:01:22","slug":"vettel-hopes-for-miracle-a-month-into-schumacher-coma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/vettel-hopes-for-miracle-a-month-into-schumacher-coma\/","title":{"rendered":"Vettel hopes for ‘miracle’ a month into Schumacher coma"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wednesday marks exactly one month that Michael Schumacher has been in a coma.<\/p>\n

\"Sebastian-Vettel-4\"Doctors at the Grenoble hospital have kept the great German unconscious through anaesthesia, and he is now listed in a “stable” condition.<\/p>\n

But the length of 45-year-old Schumacher’s coma has neurosurgeons all around the world concerned.<\/p>\n

“Regarding neurological functionality, the more time that passes, the more the ability to recover can be challenged,” Lyon neurosurgeon chief Patrick Mertens told France’s RMC Sport.<\/p>\n

“It is certain that in the weeks to come, if we then come to two months and there is no improvement, you worry even more about the ability to recover,” he added.<\/p>\n

However, another French-speaking neurosurgeon told La Presse newspaper that he has seen “patients improve between one and three years after an accident”.<\/p>\n

But Gerard Audibert, a neurosurgeon at France’s Nancy hospital, told La Depeche newspaper: “The average duration of an artificial coma with a severe brain injury is 15 days.”<\/p>\n

World champion Sebastian Vettel, once dubbed ‘Baby Schumi’ by the German press, said he has stayed away from his friend and mentor’s bedside since the December accident.<\/p>\n

“It’s not about me at all it’s about Michael only and his family,” the Red Bull driver said at the Jerez test on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

“I am still as shocked as everybody else and I pray and hope he will come back and the miracle will happen and he will be the person he always has been before,” Vettel added.<\/p>\n

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