On December 29, 2013, a skiing accident changed Michael Schumacher’s life fatally. The family stays true to itself. Information on the condition of the German Formula 1 legend has since been withheld. And his fans and the public should probably never expect anything more precise.

December 29, 2013, just after 11 a.m. in the French Alps above Méribel, one of the most well-known Germans suddenly disappears from the scene.

A fall on the ski slope caused Michael Schumacher to suffer a severe traumatic brain injury with such serious consequences that he has not been seen in public since.

The skiing accident of the most successful Formula 1 driver was many years ago. Years in which millions of fans have not given up hope. Years in which the family categorically protects the privacy of the father of two.

Above all, the question hovers: How is he? A question that remains unanswered to this day – and probably will remain so.

The last detailed communication on Schumacher’s condition dates from September 2014, when Schumacher was transferred home to Lake Geneva after six and a half months in the University Hospital of Grenoble and another almost three months in the University Hospital of Lausanne.

Schumacher had “progressed in line with the severity of his injury over the past few weeks and months, but there is still a long and hard road ahead of him,” it said at the time.

Since then, Schumacher has been at his Swiss estate in Gland on Lake Geneva. All necessary measures were taken to enable him to rehabilitate there in the sheltered circle of his family.

The extent to which Schumacher can now influence his own life after his traumatic brain injury, days of fighting death and weeks of an artificial coma are questions that are not intended to be answered by the public.

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The policy of absolute secrecy is said to be in the spirit of the former F1 driver. Even before his accident, Schumacher protected his privacy and that of his family with all (legal) means. Wife Corinna and manager Sabine Kehm continue this strictly.

There are two main reasons why not even small water level reports are given, even if there is huge interest in them.

On the one hand, no reliable forecasts can be made due to the complexity that entails brain injuries like in Schumacher’s case.

Each such injury takes its own course, and beyond a certain point, predictions can no longer be made seriously. Not even from the best and most expensive doctors in the world.

In addition, changes in the Schumachers’ state of health are only announced – if at all – if they are decisive and sustainable. Fluctuations are completely normal, one day may be better than the previous one – and the next morning the situation can look completely different again.

On the other hand, Kehm, as a representative of the Schumacher family, only wants to inform the public if there is new, concrete hope for a decisive improvement.

If the manager were to issue a press release on Schumacher’s specific condition today, she would probably have to do the same tomorrow. And the day after tomorrow. The principle becomes clear.

That’s why you may never know how the world-renowned and revered Formula 1 legend is really doing. Even many years after the terrible accident, the family has every right to deal with it in this way.

Even the most worried of Schumacher’s fans have to put up with this.

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