Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Violent crash

[Rick Moseley (ramosel]

Stephen,

Thanks for sharing this.   At this point there is no real telling how bad the injury is based on the information we have been given.   Although I still own my Ferrari I haven't driven it for years.   I too am a Head Injury survivor (MTBI).  Although the accident (non car) that caused my injury was nowhere near as violent as Mr. Bianchi's, I too have had Diffuse Axonal Shearing (DAS).  While most of the skull is smooth inside the landscape behind the nose and eyes is more like a science fiction alien planet and the rattling of the brain back and forth (coup contrecoup) can really cause havoc with the tissue...   Unfortunately, unlike his subdural hematoma, this aspect (DAS) of his injury is VERY HARD to detect and takes a specially programmed MRI to even get a glimpse of DAS.  Fortunately, with brain plasticity, the brain can remap much of the function lost due to DAS, however, the down side is there is a significant cost in fatigue.  So you may look and act normal but your brain is working 10 times harder to do what it used to do pre-injury.   Most of my injury was however Occipital in nature so along with the DAS, I didn't drive for over 5 years and even now only drive a few miles at a time with very special glasses at that. 

I have many people in my support group I attend monthly that were much worse than me... one in a coma for 11 months and died 3 times.  But he came out of it and is "fairly" functional many years later.   So, from my experience I'd say there is a good chance he can come out of this an live a fairly productive life...  but unlike Massa, I am pretty sure his racing days will be over.  I pray I am wrong.   I've been saying the same things about Michael to Ferrari friends for months now.

Rick

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From: Stephen Sherman <stephensherman44 [at] gmail.com>
To: Rick Moseley <ramosel [at] pacbell.net>
Cc: Gary Rand <racergaryrand [at] gmail.com>; "ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com" <ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 7, 2014 4:31 PM
Subject: [Ferrari] Violent crash

No blood.

This a from a spectator camera of the crash that ended the Japan F1 race.

http://www.news.com.au/sport/motorsport/jules-bianchi-crash-video-surfaces-of-f1-incident-at-japanese-grand-prix/story-fnec578q-1227082081644

This a link to the latest medical report (8 hrs old)

http://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/official-statement-bianchi-suffered-a-diffuse-axonal-brain-injury

90% chance he won't wake up.

Stephen

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