Lynyrd Skynyrd’s Johnny Van Zant thanks followers for prayers after youngest daughter hospitalized for mind mass

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 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 seem like “a cluster of grapes,” in response to Van Zant’s expertise.

“On account 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 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 carry 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 results of Hurricane Helene.

“I do know so lots of you are actually coping with damages, devastation and even losses after this storm. I do know for these affected, issues could not return exactly as they have been, however they’ll start to calm down. Let’s all pray for these affected,” he wrote.

Lynyrd Skynyrd canceled a performance 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.

Van Zant introduced that Taylor was being treated 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 medical doctors found “a mass on her mind” inflicting bleeding, resulting in the numbness.

Van Zant mentioned Taylor has a “nice” neurology crew and medical doctors. Whereas they don’t imagine it’s most cancers, he added that “we’re not out of the woods but” as she undergoes extra testing.

“We’re in rather a lot higher place than we thought we have been to start with, so preserve saying the prayers for Taylor. I can’t thanks sufficient. It means all the pieces to me and my household.”