In a recent interview with Sin City Sinner’s Jason Green, Stryper guitarist Oz Fox spoke out about his upcoming brain surgery procedure, saying:
“We were trying to get the tumors to shrink by using different methods that they say are proven to help do that, but that didn’t work. They still grew, and so now we’re, like, we’d better go in and take some action, get working on cutting them out. Otherwise, if (they) get too big, they won’t be able to help me. Again, the left ear, when they work on this tumor, there’s a good chance I could lose my hearing or the nerves going to my balance part of the ear, the cochlea. If that happens, then I will have to really recuperate in a way where my right ear would take over for my balance, which it’s amazing that the brain can do that.”
Oz added more, saying he is not afraid of death:
“The worst thing that could happen is something could go wrong and I could pass. Well, if that ever happened, in whatever situation — I could die driving a car, getting in a wreck somewhere or somebody running into me. But because of my [Christian] faith, I know where I’m going, and I have a belief in eternity with my soul. And because I’ve followed Christ for so long now, and I have a full-on relationship — I’ve surrendered my entire life to him — the promises that he gives in his words are that I have a better place to go to after this. I’ll basically be changing addresses with my soul. That’s the mindset I have.
“Nobody wants to ever leave their family or things that they invested in years, but when it’s your time, it’s your time. So that doesn’t scare me. I mean, we could go down in a plane. [Laughs] So, you never know. And I’m certainly not afraid of that — I’m not afraid of death. The only thing I think I’d be… Well, I don’t even wanna say it… There’s not fun ways to die, let’s put it that way. [Laughs] If it’s quick, it’s better. [Laughs]”