(Schumacher is home, although in a wheelchair and unable to speak and Bianchi is apparently still unconscious but breathing unassisted now).
I have kept distance from this thread as it hits a little too close to home too soon, however I feel the need to point a few things out from recent personal experience.
Please don't take these comments as an endorsement that the worst is going to happen, I, like so many in the world hope to high heavens that Hughesy can pull through this and somehow make it back to wear the baggy green.
My brother passed away in May this year, from an initial impact to the skull (not from a cricket ball), he had what sounds like an identical operation to relieve pressure on the brain, afterwards to be left breathing via ventilator, to then gradually reducing his meds, to then be taken off the machines to be able to breath on his own, which he did for around 10 days to a fortnight.
He never did regain conciousness, despite providing us with a few glimpses of hope by squeezing our hands, or raising his eyebrows when asked by the nurses etc. What the doctors and specialists (and there were many) stressed to us was that the longer my brother was unable to wake up on his own, then the worse the outcome will be, and of course it did not get any worse than not waking up at all, in the end.
Time is the factor here, the time I'm referring to is how long blood flow/oxygen etc. was cut off to the brain. It probably goes without saying that he will never again be the Phil Hughes that everyone knew prior to this incident.
All we can hope for is that he will wake up soon and continue to live his life to the fullest, as much as I personally do not see it including playing cricket any time soon, if at all.
C'mon Hughesy.
