A French doctor who treated Michael Schumacher after the F1 champ’s ski accident has predicted a possible recovery within three years.
Jean-Francois Payen, a doctor at the Grenoble hospital that treated Schumacher after his injury in December 2013, visited the Schumacher family at home in Switzerland.
The 45-year-old is being treated at home after spending six months in a medically-induced coma following the accident in Meribel, France.
Dr Payen, who cared for Schumacher for six months after the crash, said the former race car driver is no longer in a coma and is slowly getting better.
‘Life after a head injury is punctuated by stages,’ Payen told RTL radio on Thursday. He predicted a convalescence of one to three years.
‘We hope, but we have to give him time.’
It comes after Schumacher’s 15-year-old son Mick earlier this month passed on news that his father was ‘waking up very slowly.’
French F1 commentator Jean-Louis Moncet told Europe 1 radio station: ‘I saw his son and he told me that Schumi is waking up very slowly; very slowly.
‘Although things are going at a slow pace, he has a lot of time, I would say he has his whole life in front of him to get back on track’, Daily Mail informs.
