Vince Gill gave Amy Grant a reality check during recovery from brain injury

"I just remember in the fall of 2022 when my world was very quiet. I just remember saying to Vince, 'What if this is all I get back? What if this is it?" Because, to me, it's like the world is in a conversation, and I am down the hall and in a back bedroom. This is like my response time.

"She wants to be able to give 100% when she tours and, unfortunately, we do not think that will be the case by the time rehearsals would start for the fall dates."

Grant said the accident led doctors to discover a cyst that had been growing in her throat.

"I had this bike wreck and, unbeknownst to me, I actually had a cyst growing in my throat, and because of the trauma of that bike wreck, it went into hypergrowth," she told E! News earlier this year. "I had this five-hour surgery, and they took it out."

Two years earlier, Grant had another health scare when she was diagnosed with PAPVR (partial anomalous pulmonary venous return), which had caused complications to the blood circulation through the chambers near her heart. She underwent open-heart surgery to fix the birth defect.

"If nothing else, we recover every day from the shock of what it means to age. My memory used to be my superpower. Now I can't trust my memory. But there are hidden gifts in everything.

"Our mindsets, the stories we tell ourselves, become our realities," she added. "Find the tool kits that you need to move forward."