Very little is known about Michael Schumacher's current state but one important fact remains. His family is not giving up hope that he will recover, even if the medical bills pile up.

An Express report noted that the champion racer's treatment has already amounted to £10million, more than a year after his ski accident in the French Alps. He is currently receiving treatment inside his Swiss mansion near Lake Geneva.

Some reports have claimed that he still cannot walk nor speak and he has limited awareness of his surroundings.

"Progress is painfully slow. There is no miracle on the horizon," an Express source said.

Helping him deal with his day-to-day recovery is a team of 15 doctors and medical personnel led by Professor Jean-Francois Payen who is responsible for his brain blood clot operation last December 2013, Explain added.

Also providing him support is his family -- wife Corinna and his two children -- but there is a need for them to manage their expectations especially now that their expenses are getting higher and higher because of Schumacher's medical needs.

"What tortures the public is the same thing that tortures the family - progress is slow, progress is uncertain," neurological consultant and spinal surgeon Peter Hamlyn told Express.

"The first months are dominated by questions of survival. Gradually as the weeks and months go by those questions of survival turn into questions of the quality of survival. It's a rollercoaster and if Michael Schumacher's rollercoaster takes him and his family somewhere happy then they will have been to places that will have been pretty unhappy on the way there," Hamlyn added. 

Despite his slow recovery and current condition, Corinna remains to be the strongest support system for Schumacher with Professor Payen saying that she has "exceptional willpower."

"She knew the seriousness of the situation and the long road that lay before them. She looks at things very clearly and makes every effort, and gives everything, which can help to improve the condition of her husband,"  Payen added. 

It can be remembered that the racer suffered serious head injuries after he fell and hit his head on a rock while skiing in the Swiss Alps in December 2013. He was then placed in a medically induced coma to manage the swelling in his brain. Several months after the accident, reports surfaced that he has already been out of coma and is already showing signs of progress.