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Ozzy Osbourne has revealed he doesn't want to unrecorded a 'long, miserable existence' and has 'at champion 10 years left' of his life.
Despite this, nan 74-year-old rocker has insisted that there's plentifulness of life successful him yet and it 'p***es him off' erstwhile he sees reports that he's 'fighting his past battle.'
Speaking candidly astir his wellness successful a chat pinch Rolling Stone UK, Ozzy - who was diagnosed pinch Parkinson's Disease successful 2003 - went connected to uncover that doctors recovered a tumour successful his spine during a 4th operation on his backmost pursuing a 2019 fall.
He explained: 'I don't fearfulness dying, but I don't want to person a long, achy and miserable existence. I for illustration nan thought that if you person a terminal illness, you tin spell to a spot successful Switzerland and get it done quickly. I saw my begetter dice of cancer.
'But look, I said to Sharon that I'd smoked a associated precocious and she said, "What are you doing that for? It'll f***ing termination you!" I said, "How agelong do you want maine to f***ing unrecorded for?!" At best, I've sewage 10 years near and erstwhile you're older, clip picks up speed. Me and Sharon had our 41st wedding day recently, and that's conscionable unbelievable to me!'
Health woes: Ozzy Osbourne, 74, admits he's sewage 'at champion 10 years left' and has been near 'virtually crippled' from aggregate backmost surgeries wherever doctors recovered a tumour successful his rotation (pictured earlier this month)
Feeling good: Despite this, nan rocker has insisted that there's plentifulness of life successful him yet and it 'p***es him off' erstwhile he sees reports that he's 'fighting his past battle' (pictured successful 2014)
Detailing nan bid of operations he's had precocious pursuing his autumn successful 2019, he confessed: 'It's really knocked maine about. The 2nd room went drastically incorrect and virtually near maine crippled.
'I thought I'd beryllium up and moving aft nan 2nd and third, but pinch nan past 1 they put a f***ing rod successful my spine. They recovered a tumour successful 1 of nan vertebrae, truthful they had to excavation each that retired too. It's beautiful rough, man, and my equilibrium is each fucked up.'
Last twelvemonth he underwent 'life-altering' room to region and realign a bid of pins successful his cervix and backmost from a 2003 quad biking accident.
In September, Ozzy revealed connected his family's podcast The Osbournes Podcast that he had different room successful nan pipeline.
He said: 'My little backmost is, I'm going for an epidural soon because what's happening, what they've discovered is nan cervix has been fixed, beneath nan cervix there's 2 vertebrae wherever nan motorcycle deed maine and disintegrated, there's thing near of 'em,'
His boy Jack Osbourne asked: 'Are they fusing discs?'
Ozzy explained that he 'didn't know' what nan aesculapian professionals were going to beryllium doing but said: 'All I cognize is correct now, I'm successful a batch of pain, I'm successful a batch of discomfort'
He precocious said he is 'battling through' his wellness issues and precocious had a select removed from his artery.
Candid: Ozzy revealed his woman Sharon had scolded him for smoking a associated because it 'would termination him' to which he responded 'at champion I've sewage 10 years left' (pictured together successful 2020)
Earlier this twelvemonth nan threat of humor clots hitting his awesome organs was reduced, pinch him admitting he's hopeless to 'get connected pinch his life.
Speaking connected his Ozzy Speaks SiriusXM channel, he said: 'I'm battling through, like, for lawsuit past Monday, I went to person a select removed.
When I had nan humor clots successful my legs, they put a select successful your artery to extremity nan humor clots going to your bosom and your brain. It sounds worse than it is. So, connected Monday I went to person it removed.
'The humor clots person jammed you each up. It's conscionable disappointment aft disappointment. Just get this point f****** done truthful I tin spell get connected pinch my life.
Ozzy admitted he is successful 'constant pain', adding: 'I consciousness for illustration a one-legged man successful a butt-kicking contest. The only point I've sewage that keeps maine going is making records. But I can't do that forever.
'I gotta get retired there. I'm still successful changeless pain. I do nan champion I tin to enactment distant from nan symptom medication.'
What is Parkinson's ?
Parkinson's is simply a neurodegenerative condition. The unwellness effects nan nervus cells successful nan encephalon that power movement.
Over clip nan symptoms gradually get worse. It tin origin symptoms related to activity arsenic good arsenic pain, slump and nonaccomplishment of smell.
Most group who get Parkinson's are complete 60, but 1 successful 10 are nether 50 and it affects much men than women.
What causes nan symptoms?
Nerve cells successful nan encephalon nonstop messages to nan remainder of retired assemblage to power our movements. This is done utilizing chemicals called neurotransmitters.
An area of nan brain called nan substantia nigra produces 1 of nan neurotransmitters that controls movement: dopamine. But successful 70 to 80 per cent of group pinch Parkinson's these dopamine producing cells deteriorate and die.
The nonaccomplishment of dopamine-producing neurons results successful debased levels of dopamine successful nan portion of nan encephalon that controls activity and balance.
Source: Parkinson's Europe
