Amy Grant is reflecting on her health after undergoing open-heart surgery and suffering a brain injury following a bike crash, with both incidences happening in the past four years. The “Baby, Baby” singer, 63, said her recent health scares have “changed the way I look at life.” Grant has joined a campaign for the American Heart Association following her surgery in 2020 .
“I always saw myself living well into my nineties. My great-grandmother lived to be 94. She was sharp in the mind,” she told People in an interview published on Monday.
“To realize something can happen that you never see coming, and it could be over...
everything became more precious.” Grant shared that before she discovered her heart issues, she “always saw myself living well into my nineties. My great-grandmother lived to be 94.
She was sharp in the mind.” “To realize something can happen that you never see coming, and it could be over..
.everything became more precious,” Grant continued. The Grammy winner’s heart problem was only discovered after a doctor suggested she be tested when her husband, singer Vince Gill, 67, was experiencing shortness of breath.
“After giving Vince the ‘great’ news, ‘You’re just fat and out of shape’ — and Vince said, ‘Tell me something I don’t know!’ — the doctor looked at me and said, ‘I want to see you,'” Grant explained. The additional testing showed the “Every Heartbeat” singer had PAPVR (partial anomalous pulmonary ven.