Hi folks,
I found this thread very interesting. I'm a big fan of Heart, and a little while ago another fan asked this same question on the message board of the Heart website. That post is no longer there (the administrators "clean" the message board regularly), but the response from one of the message board administrators was that Ann hasn't had the band removed but she also is not having it adjusted.....that the "apparatus broke" awhile back, and that Ann "no longer considers it a priority in her life". There was no commentary about complications (reflux, vocal) from the band and no commentary directly from Ann herself.