Country music legend Randy Travis is still alive today because of one unwavering force in his life — his wife, Mary Travis. His survival is not the result of medical certainty or clinical optimism. In fact, it’s quite the opposite. It’s because Mary refused to accept the doctors’ grim predictions.
She stood firmly, with unshakable love and fierce determination, in the face of a tragedy that almost took everything from them both. The Collapse That Changed Everything. In 2013, Randy Travis’s life took a devastating turn.
At the height of his career, after decades of making music that touched millions, he was suddenly struck by viral cardiomyopathy, a condition that weakens the heart muscle. The illness rapidly progressed and caused a massive stroke, which left him comatose and fighting for his life. As if that weren’t enough, Randy also faced a series of life-threatening…
