Ozzy On The Mend

Ozzy Osbourne is doing well after suffering a broken neck vertebra and other injuries in an all-terrain vehicle accident, doctors said Wednesday, and they hope to take him off a ventilator so he can breathe unaided.

"The plan for today is to wake him up, as he's been sedated while he's been on the ventilator," said Dr. Dick Jack, medical director of Wexham Park Hospital in Slough, west of London.

"And the next thing will be to try and get him off the ventilator, get the tube from out of his throat, get his sedation down and then we will know a lot more about how he feels."

Jack told reporters that doctors expect Osbourne to make a steady recovery.

"He's doing very well. He's comfortable and had a comfortable night and the vital signs are perfectly normal," Jack said.

Osbourne's wife, Sharon, and daughter, Kelly, arrived from Los Angeles Tuesday. The 55-year-old rocker has been in intensive care since Monday's accident at his estate in Buckinghamshire, southern England. He fractured his left collarbone, eight ribs and a neck vertebra.

He had emergency surgery Monday to restore the flow to a damaged blood vessel.

"Apparently, he was on his quad bike and he hit something and he fell and the bike landed on top of him," Sharon Osbourne told reporters Tuesday at London's Heathrow Airport.

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

Osbourne's fans have been gathering outside the hospital, some holding signs to demonstrate their support. Bill Greer, Osbourne's tour manager, says there has been an outpouring of get well wishes and flowers for Ozzy, for which his wife, Sharon, is expressing their thanks.