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I heard on the radio this morning that the doctors were saying Ozzy may not ever be able to speak again because of ventilator damaging his vocal cords.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/...in579681.shtml
Wife: Ozzy Stopped Breathing

LONDON, Dec. 12, 2003
(CBS/AP) Ozzy Osbourne stopped breathing and his heart stopped beating for more than a minute after a quad bike crash, a newspaper quoted his wife as saying Friday.

Sharon Osbourne said a security guard who was with the rock star resuscitated him, the Daily Mirror tabloid reported.

"He had stopped breathing and the guard spotted it immediately," she reportedly said. "He had stopped breathing for a minute and a half and there was no pulse. But thank God, the security guard was there to revive him. He resuscitated him and got him breathing and his pulse going again. We are so, so grateful to him."

Osbourne fractured his left collarbone, eight ribs and a neck vertebra in Monday's all-terrain vehicle accident at his estate in Buckinghamshire, southern England. He underwent emergency surgery after the crash to restore the flow to a damaged blood vessel.

He has been on a ventilator in intensive care at Wexham Park Hospital in Slough, west of London. The hospital's medical director has said he expects the 55-year-old "Black Sabbath" star to make a steady recovery.

Sharon Osbourne reportedly said doctors did not yet know whether her husband would have any long-term effects.

"The doctors are hoping there hasn't been any lasting damage, but until Ozzy can actually come round and get off the ventilator and then they will know," she was quoted as saying.

She reportedly added that Ozzy Osbourne crashed as he drove over uneven ground and the bike landed on top of him.

A quad bike, akin to a four-wheel-drive motorcycle, is used for recreation and by hunters and farmers to reach inaccessible places.

The Osbournes' London publicists, Planet Publicity, could not confirm the details of the story, but said Sharon Osbourne had spoken to the Daily Mirror Thursday.

"If that's what Sharon said then that's what happened," said a man who answered the phone at the company's office and declined to be identified.