Lynyrd Skynyrd’s Johnny Van Zant is grateful for followers’ prayers and assist after his youngest daughter, Taylor, was hospitalized final week.
On Sunday, Van Zant shared an replace video about her situation, thanking everybody for his or her prayers and assist.
He defined that Taylor was identified with a cavernomas, or cerebral cavernous malformation, that are “teams of tightly packed, irregular small blood vessels with skinny partitions,” per the Mayo Clinic.
They’ll trigger blood to leak within the mind or spinal wire and appear like “a cluster of grapes,” in keeping with Van Zant’s expertise.
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Johnny Van Zant of the band Lynyrd Skynyrd thanked followers for his or her prayers after his youngest daughter underwent emergency remedy for a mass on her mind. (Scott Dudelson/Getty Photos for Stagecoach)
“As a result of your prayer and the need of God, she is at our home now and resting,” he mentioned.
He added within the caption, “I thank everybody a lot in your issues and candy phrases because the information of my daughter got here out. I’m additionally very grateful for the followers understanding within the cancelling of reveals so I could possibly be along with her. The previous week has been a whirlwind of feelings however studying all of your hopeful messages and feedback actually helped elevate my spirits.”
“As a result of your prayer and the need of God, she is at our home now and resting.”
Van Zant additionally requested for continued prayers for the band’s bus driver, Brad Gibson, who was within the ICU after a scooter accident, in addition to folks struggling the consequences of Hurricane Helene.
“I do know so a lot of you are actually coping with damages, devastation and even losses after this storm. I do know for these affected, issues might not return exactly as they have been, however they may start to quiet down. Let’s all pray for these affected,” he wrote.
Van Zant additionally requested for continued prayers for the band’s bus driver in addition to these affected by Hurricane Helene. (R. Diamond/Getty Photos)
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Lynyrd Skynyrd canceled a efficiency in Alaska on Sept. 24, asserting of their assertion on social media that Van Zant’s daughter “should endure emergency surgical procedure.”
They went on to announce the extra cancellation of their September dates in Utah, Colorado and New Mexico.
Lynyrd Skynyrd canceled a number of reveals in September in gentle of Van Zant’s household emergency. (Jason Davis/Getty Photos for New 12 months’s Eve Reside: Nashville’s Huge Bash)
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Van Zant introduced that Taylor was being handled for a mass discovered on her mind within the days after the band introduced the cancellations.
After having a “numbing feeling on her proper facet,” Van Zant mentioned she went to the hospital the place she bought a CAT scan, and docs found “a mass on her mind” inflicting bleeding, resulting in the numbness.
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Van Zant mentioned Taylor has a “nice” neurology workforce and docs. Whereas they don’t consider it’s most cancers, he added that “we’re not out of the woods but” as she undergoes extra testing.
“We’re in loads higher place than we thought we have been to start with, so hold saying the prayers for Taylor. I can’t thanks sufficient. It means the whole lot to me and my household.”
