Michael Schumacher Coma News: Racer Can Now 'Communicate' With Family

Formula One legend Michael Schumacher is now fluttering his eye-lashes as a way to communicate with his family, the Mirror reports, adding that the improvements are pointing to a homecoming by the end of next month.

His family is looking forward to that moment, the report speculates. Four months ago, wife Corinna reportedly invested in transforming section of their mansion home in Gland, Switzerland, into a medical center for a still paralyzed Schumacher.

The added facilities were thought to be for Schumacher's long-term care, with round-the-clock nursing care expected as he attempts to hurdle injuries he sustained in a skiing accident in December 2013, where he reportedly smashed his head on rocks. However, some camps say home care is an uninformed choice, the Daily Mail said.

His home-based care will include physiotherapists, to massage his atrophying joints, nutritionists and neurological experts, the report adds. Doctors are also hopeful he will be sitting upright in a high-tech wheelchair within a few weeks. 

Schumacher's condition, the report said, has been uphill since he was transferred from a hospital in France to a unit near his home. He woke up from coma last month after the French Alps accident.    

The good news comes on the heels of a report that circulated recently, about neurosurgeons that may have have invented a device that could cure his paralysis.

The Mirror said doctors Darko Chudy and Vedran Deletis have devised a microchip implanting technique that will hopefully help the racer walk and talk again, and given the family's immense wealth--well over half-a-billion pounds--the family has the means to try the options. The Schumacher family has already contacted the pair in Zagreb.

The doctors reportedly confirmed that there had been contact, declining to give other details.

According to Mirror, Corinna, Schumacher's wife, wrote to fans in time for a celebrated race saying, "The German Grand Prix gives me the perfect opportunity to cordially thank you all for the good wishes and positive energies you keep sending to Michael. I have to say your sympathies blew us all away."

The developments in the racer's condition surely marks a milestone in his second lease of life but chances of him going back behind the wheel are bleak as he still has to make a complete recovery after the horrific accident.