The Lynyrd Skynyrd frontman is detailing his daughter’s medical situation.
Lynyrd Skynyrd frontman Johnny Van Zant is asking for prayers for his youngest daughter amid a well being scare. On Thursday, the 64-year-old singer revealed in a Fb and Instagram video that his daughter, Taylor, was just lately handled at an emergency room after having a “numbing feeling on her proper aspect” earlier than medical doctors found a mass on her mind final week.
Van Zant informed followers that medical doctors discovered a mass on Taylor’s mind following a CAT scan. “A few of it was bleeding, that was inflicting the numbing half,” he defined. “Saying this, we have had her with an awesome neurology staff, a gaggle of medical doctors and so they do not assume it is the C-word, in order that’s a very good factor.”
“However they’re nonetheless doing a whole lot of testing and we’re not out of the woods but, however we’re in loads higher place than we thought we have been at first,” he continued. He inspired followers to “maintain saying prayers” for Taylor. “It means every little thing to me and my household,” he stated.
On Sunday, he shared an replace on her situation, explaining that she was identified with cavernomas, or cerebral cavernous malformation, which in line with the Mayo Clinic are “teams of tightly packed, irregular blood vessels with thins partitions.” They will trigger blood to leak within the mind or spinal wire and appear like “a cluster of grapes.”
He stated, “On account of your prayer and the need of God, she is at our home now and resting.”
Lynyrd Skynyrd canceled a efficiency in Alaska on Sept. 24, saying of their assertion that Van Zant’s daughter “should bear emergency surgical procedure.” They went on to cancel the remainder of their September exhibits in Utah, Colorado and New Mexico. Van Zant left the tour to be with Taylor whereas medical doctors “proceed testing, analysis and remedy.”
Van Zant, who first joined Lynyrd Skynyrd in 1987, additionally requested followers to maintain bus driver Brad Gibson of their ideas after he was within the ICU following a scooter accident whereas apparently on his option to get a card for Van Zant’s household.
“I need to get Brad again on his toes, together with Taylor, so when you guys might say a prayer for Brad and his household,” he stated. “… However hey, I am gonna inform you this, ‘trigger that is what I am doing now and I at all times inform you guys to. I am gonna lookup, myself, at all times lookup. So that you guys do the identical. God bless you all and thanks.”
Lynyrd Skynyrd rejoined behind Van Zant in 1987, ten years after the 1977 aircraft crash that took the lives of 4 band members, together with Van Zant’s brother Ronnie Van Zant. Gary Rossington, the final surviving unique member of the band, died final yr at age 71.
The band was the highest southern rock group of the Seventies with hits like “Gimme Three Steps,” “Tuesday’s Gone” and the enduring “Free Chicken.” The group was inducted into the Rock and Roll Corridor of Fame in 2006.