Ozzy Breathing Solo Again
Ozzy Osbourne is breathing a lot easier these days. Literally.
A week after his near-fatal ATV accident, the former Black Sabbath frontman has been taken off a ventilator and is now breathing unaided.
"He is doing so great--he is off the ventilator, and he's breathing all on his own today, and he's smiling, and he's doing so great, my darling, it's like daddy's back again!" wife Sharon told daughter Kelly in a phone call on The Sharon Osbourne Show. Kelly is filling in as host while her mom is in England; the call will air as part of Wednesday's show.
The good news also comes as his new duet with Kelly skyrocketed to the top the British charts over the weekend.
Osbourne, 55, remains laid up at Britain's Wexham Park Hospital in Slough, just west of London, since wiping out on an all-terrain vehicle while tooling around his country estate on December 8.
Sharon told a British newspaper last week that Ozzy had stopped breathing and had no pulse in the moments after the crash. A security guard was able to revive the rocker.
Osbourne suffered several broken ribs, a fractured collarbone and a broken vertebra in his neck that left him in intensive care and heavily sedated. He also underwent an emergency operation to restore blood flow to a major artery and stem bleeding in his lungs. He's expected to take six months to fully recuperate.
Dr. Dick Jack, Wexham Park's director, said on Friday that Osbourne was making a "steady recovery" since being stabilized, did not suffer any paralysis and doctors expected to wean him off the ventilator within the next few days.
Without the ventilator, Osbourne is able to chat with Sharon for the first time since his accident.
Now that he's on the mend and breathing on his own again, Osbourne has something else to celebrate this holiday season--"Changes," his mellow father-daughter remake of an old Black Sabbath tune, debuted at number one on the U.K. charts, beating out the latest from Pop Idol winner Will Young.
Still no word how Ozzy's injuries will affect shooting on the third season of MTV's The Osbournes, which had been in production and slated to premiere January 13.
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