All The Times Ozzy Osbourne Almost Died

A 69-year-old Ozzy was busy touring the United States in 2018 when a health issue flipped the whole tour on end. Osbourne had just finished a show in Salt Lake City, Utah, when he tried to slip his thumb ring back on. It should've happened easily, but, for some reason, the musician couldn't get the metal loop over his digit. By the next morning, according to Rolling Stone, his thumb had swollen to 10 times its natural size.

"I wasn't feeling sick. But when we got [to the emergency room], my blood pressure went through the f****** roof for some reason," Osbourne told the publication. His thumb was "the size of a f*****' light bulb."

A hangnail, as the doctors would discover, had caused Ozzy to contract a staph infection. Usually, an infection of this type isn't a big deal. You take some antibiotics and life goes on as normal, but we're talking about Ozzy Osbourne. Everything has to be extra. Ozzy was busy cracking jokes when the doctors informed him that the infection could turn deadly if it wasn't treated. Surgeons ended up operating on Ozzy's thumb and middle finger to treat the infection. It wasn't just one infection, however. It turns out that he had contracted three separate staph infections. Ozzy was in agony in a hospital bed for a week, getting antibiotics pumped through his veins, and had to postpone the rest of his tour.

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