Doctors reportedly tell Michael Schumacher's family that 'only a miracle' can save him

Michael Schumacher with wife Corina in happier times

Doctors and medical experts have reportedly told Michael Schumacher’s family that only a miracle can save the seven-time Formula One world champion, according to the Telegraph.

Schumacher was put in artificially-induced coma in a Grenoble hospital last December after the 45-year-old severely injured his head in a skiing accident at the French resort of Meribel.

A statement was released last week by Schumacher’s management team which insisted that the driver was still in a wake up phase. However, things seem to taken a turn for the worse as it is now being assumed that he will remain in a vegetative state for the rest of his life, having been in coma for the last 69 days.

“The family has been told that only a miracle can bring him back now,” a prominent German journalist revealed. ” He is in a bad way but until the family issues a formal statement, we cannot publish anything.”

Schumacher’s wife Corinna and his brother Ralf Schumacher have apparently been consulting brain specialists all over Europe.

“On Sunday his (Schumacher’s) wife Corinna spent her 45th birthday at his bedside with their children Gina Marie and Mick, his brother Ralf and his father Rolf Schumacher. They talked and talked and prayed for him to acknowledge their presence. But he remains comatose with tubes feeding him, supplying him with air, giving him medicine and removing waste from his body,” a source close to the family revealed.

“The doctors have given it to them straight. There is little hope left that he will come out of this. Miracles happen, of course, and as a wealthy man he has the best care money can buy. But all the money in the world cannot fix what has happened to him,” the source added.

If true, this is tragic news indeed, for fans of the iconic sportsman as well as neutral sports followers.