Lynyrd Skynyrd’s Johnny Van Zant is grateful for followers’ prayers and help 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 help.
He defined that Taylor was recognized 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 will trigger blood to leak within the mind or spinal wire and appear to be “a cluster of grapes,” based on Van Zant’s expertise.
“Attributable to your prayer and the desire of God, she is at our home now and resting,” he mentioned.
He added within the caption, “I thank everybody a lot on your issues and candy phrases for the reason that information of my daughter got here out. I’m additionally very grateful for the followers understanding within the cancelling of exhibits so I might 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.”
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 lots of you at the moment are 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 calm down. Let’s all pray for these affected,” he wrote.
Lynyrd Skynyrd canceled a efficiency in Alaska on Sept. 24, saying 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.
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 obtained a CAT scan, and docs found “a mass on her mind” inflicting bleeding, resulting in the numbness.
Van Zant mentioned Taylor has a “nice” neurology workforce and docs. Whereas they don’t imagine it’s most cancers, he added that “we’re not out of the woods but” as she undergoes further testing.
“We’re in rather a lot 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.”