Mary Travis Ignored Doctors’ Warnings to Save Randy Travis

The Day the Music Went Silent

It was July 2013, and Randy Travis — the voice that had defined traditional country music for decades — was at home in Texas, dealing with what he initially thought was a case of walking pneumonia.

But that was just the beginning of a cascade of events that would change his life forever.

Randy’s breathing became increasingly difficult. Within a day, he was rushed to a hospital in Dallas with viral cardiomyopathy, a condition in which the heart muscle becomes weakened by a virus.

Then, just as doctors were trying to stabilize him, something even worse happened: his heart failed, and he suffered a massive stroke.

In an instant, the man known for a voice as iconic as “Forever and Ever, Amen” was in a coma — unresponsive and hanging by a thread. Doctors put him on life support after his lungs filled with fluid.

They were forced to battle infections, including pneumonia and staph, and perform multiple surgeries to relieve pressure on his brain and to keep him alive.

At one point, hospital staff told Mary that Randy’s chances of surviving were less than one percent.

They told her that if he did survive, he would almost certainly never talk again, never sing, never walk unaided, and never live any kind of independent life.

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