Ozzy might not get home for Xmas
Published December 22, 2003
According to The Scotsman, OZZY OSBOURNE's family are hoping to reunite for Christmas, their agents said yesterday. Son Jack, 18, flew in from Los Angeles to London's Heathrow Airport to see his hospitalised dad today but it is still not clear if the 55-year-old rocker will be allowed home for Christmas. Ozzy fractured a neck vertebra, crushed an arm, broke eight ribs and his collarbone in a quadbike crash at his Buckinghamshire mansion earlier this month and wife Sharon said she feared he might die. Hospital medical director Dr Dick Jack said: "Mr. Osbourne is very much better and continues to make steady progress. He has been breathing independently for five days now, is eating well and no longer confined to bed." The family had hoped to all spend Christmas at the £3 million mansion near Chalfont St Giles, Bucks. But a spokesman for them today said: "Jack has arrived, so they'll all be together but we still don't know about Ozzy. That's down to the hospital to decide." The hospital said it was unsure at this time if the singer would be discharged for Christmas. Also, according to CNN (edition.cnn.com), OZZY has made British chart history by scoring a number one single 33 years after his first hit. The singer, currently recovering after a quad bike accident that his wife said nearly killed him, went straight to number one with 'Changes', a duet with his daughter Kelly. The record topped the UK singles charts Sunday. Osbourne's first chart hit was 'Paranoid', when he was with BLACK SABBATH, which reached number four in August 1970. Meanwhile, a hospital statement said Osbourne was responding well to treatment following the accident on his estate in Buckinghamshire, west of London, in which he stopped breathing and had to be revived by a security guard, his wife said. "He had stopped breathing for a minute and a half and there was no pulse," Sharon Osbourne told the Daily Mirror on Friday. "But thank God the security guard was there to revive him. He resuscitated him and got him breathing and his pulse going again," she said. Osbourne, who has mellowed from wild man of heavy rock to comical much-loved star of his reality TV series The Osbournes, underwent emergency surgery following the crash. He fractured eight ribs and a vertebra in his neck.
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- Published: December 22, 2003
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I hope that the Ozzman gets better and is able to spend the time at home over the holidays. The hospital at Christmas time especially is no place to be.
I also wonder when he recuperates from this accident what effect this will have on his already-waning vocals.