It's so easy to be doom and gloom about the world when you're sick. Oftentimes, it'll feel like you're never going to get better. Eventually, you lose that love and lust for life that makes it worth being alive everyday. Rather than make the most of a life we aren't promised, we take it for granted. When you're Ozzy Osbourne, suffering from Parkinson's disease and different spinal injuries, life can feel pretty miserable. However, his upcoming final show with Black Sabbath has given him new purpose and he owes it all to his wife Sharon.
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Recently, Ozzy spoke with The Guardian ahead of Black Sabbath's last reunion concert in July. There, he admits that his wife and manager Sharon Osbourne was the driving force between his final outing on stage. Ultimately, it was about giving the rockstar purpose, "a reason to get up in the morning." "You wake up the next morning and find that something else has gone wrong," Osbourne says. "You begin to think this is never going to end."
Ozzy Osbourne Gives Credit to His Wife Sharon for Black Sabbath's Reunion Concert
Given how stark and complicated his health is, there have been a ton of doubts about whether or not Osbourne will actually make it. Sharon herself says Ozzy could barely walk. "He's very happy to be coming back and very emotional about this," she tells The Sun. "Parkinson's is a progressive disease. It's not something you can stabilize. It affects different parts of the body and it's affected his legs. But his voice is as good as it's ever been."
But Ozzy has a firm resolve to "do the best I can" as he tells The Guardian. That means undergoing some intense endurance training. After not doing any workouts or conditioning for seven years, he essentially has to reconfigure his body despite the limitations. He details his regimen during a recent addition of SiriusXM's Ozzy's Boneyard.
"The first thing to go when you're laid up is your stamina, so believe it or so, I'm doing two sets of three-minute walks and weight training. I'm going and going you know," Ozzy says. "I'm waking up in my body, you know. I mean, three minutes to you, for instance, is nothing, but I've been laying on my back recovering from umpteen surgeries."
