Ozzy on ventilator

Smh.com.au ^ | December 10, 2003

[EsclavoDeCristo]

Rock wildman Ozzy Osbourne was on a ventilator in intensive care yesterday after undergoing emergency surgery following a quad bike accident in Britain.

Osbourne, who was injured at his Buckinghamshire estate on Monday while taking time out from a promotional tour, was continuing to receive treatment at the Wexham Park Hospital in Slough.

On Monday night, hospital staff treated a cracked vertebra in his neck, eight broken ribs, a broken collarbone and a damaged blood vessel.

Circulation in his left arm has now been restored after the damage to the blood vessel caused by pressure from his broken collarbone.

But Osbourne, 55, remains on a ventilator and is unable to speak because he has a tube in his mouth.

The hospital's medical director, Dr Dick Jack, said: "He's still on a ventilator in the intensive care unit. He was seen on the ward round this morning [Tuesday] and he is fine."

It is understood that Osbourne is also wearing a hard collar because of the damage to his neck.

The circumstances of the accident are not yet clear.

Osbourne was in Britain to promote his latest s

[Ingtar]

I had surgery on my legs in 60s. The intern that worked on one leg was Dr. Payne. Hearing them page Dr. Payne over the intercom remained funny to a second grade boy.

[phil1750]

I played h.s. football against a guy (Mr. and Mrs. Wall's son) named------you guessed it, Brick Wall. And yes he was.

[StriperSniper]

I had a junior high science teacher named Richard Head.

I wonder if he was my fifth grade teachers son. She used to brag about her Richard all the time and didn't seem(or admit) to know what we all giggled about.

[Hildy]

That song changes is haunting, I didn't like it the first time I saw it, but the video is a loving Valentine to a Father Daughter Relationship. It's amazing Ozzy is still alive. I once saw an interview with some drugged out rocker from the 80's who said that he had never seen anyone who could party like Ozzy.

[Johnny Gage]

Ok.. I must not have a high enough Caffeiene/Blood ratio.

Can someone tell me what a "Quad Bike" is?

[LisaMalia]

An all-terrain vehicle.

[Myrddin]

I had a junior high science teacher named Richard Head. You can just imagine the fun that 7th-grade boys had with THAT name.

I worked at Farrell's Ice Cream Parlour in high school. The guys in the fountain reveled in sending people to the payphone booth to look up a particular listing. They quoted the page, column and line number. The listing was for a guy named, "Jack Meoff".

[freedomson]

What about Mike Hunt?

[Constitution Day]

LOL! You have to wonder if the phone book publisher had a joker on their staff, though.

[Constitution Day]

[Myrddin]

Can someone tell me what a "Quad Bike" is?

It is the 4-wheeled successor to the original 3-wheeled all terrain vehicles. I had a friend in high school who was a very gifted mechanic. He took a 3-wheel ATV down a narrow alley for a test ride one afternoon. It was being serviced and he didn't know the return springs were not installed in the carbs AND the brakes were not connected. He crashed the bike into a large steel building at 70 MPH. The brain damage from the accident left him twitching in bed for the next 20 years under his parents care. He could still see, hear and eat with assistance. Less functional than Terry Schiavo by a long shot.

[1L]

I had a junior high science teacher named Richard Head.

I know of a guy named Fred Head. Sort of a miserable individual. My former secretary called him Richard.

[Myrddin]

When I hired on at Pacific Telephone, they passed out a monthly "update" newspaper. The person in charge of the telco recreation council was "Elmer C. Fuddpucker". I just about fell out of my chair.

[Myrddin]

What about Mike Hunt?

Last seen with his buddy Hugh Jass. My wife once did a credit report for "Love Lee Pitts".

[Lee Heggy]

Yeah, Your right, 'burned out' is probably more accurate in his case. A guy his age and in his questionable condition getting on a 'quad bike', (British for ATV) is an accident waiting to happen. Not that 55 is too old but I know I don't heal up or have the reactions like I did at 20 so I just don't do stuff that I used to back when I thought I'd live forever.

[Rocket1968]

The head of the health clinic at the university I attended, was Dr. Graves. I tried not to get sick.

[Itzlzha]

But Osbourne, 55, remains on a ventilator and is unable to speak because he has a tube in his mouth...

...but interestingly enough, he was as understandable and lucid as he has ever been in ANY recent interview, when he answered the questions posed to him.

Ozzy was quoted as saying..."Sharon...(unintelligible)...Mumble-mumble...(unintelligible)...in a helicopter!" (Little inside joke with the "helicopter" bit, hudla-hudla!)

[Saundra Duffy]

That had to hurt. God bless him.

[Constitution Day]

Hey! Fuddpuckers need recreation too. =)

[spectre]

Ozzy literally cried when he said that he could not go on living if his beloved wife Sharon died before him. He meant it.

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