{"id":32766,"date":"2025-08-31T07:00:48","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T11:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/?p=32766"},"modified":"2025-08-28T08:29:49","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T12:29:49","slug":"doctors-wanted-to-pull-plug-after-randy-travis-stroke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2025\/08\/doctors-wanted-to-pull-plug-after-randy-travis-stroke\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctor&#8217;s Wanted To Pull Plug After Randy Travis&#8217; Stroke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following Randy Travis\u2018 stroke in 2013, which left him in a coma and with less than a one percent chance of survival, doctors considered ending treatment amid severe infections and complications.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey said, \u2018We need to pull the plug. He\u2019s got too many things going against him,&#8217;\u201d his wife Mary revealed in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/randy-travis-wife-defied-medical-advice-pull-plug-during-country-stars-stroke-recovery-battle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">emotional new interview with Fox News Digital. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mary refused to give up on her husband, and she recalled sharing a \u201cmagical moment\u201d with Travis where she knew that the country legend was still fighting for his life.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThat\u2019s when I knew that Randy Travis was gonna make it, because he squeezed my hand and a tear went down his face. I said, \u2018He\u2019s still fighting.\u2019\u00a0That man right there, he wants to fight, and y\u2019all are gonna fight with him.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Mary helped inspire Travis\u2019 remarkable recovery over the next decade, though he still lives with lasting effects, including limited speech from aphasia and reliance on a wheelchair.<\/p>\n<p>Travis rarely sings or records, but he memorably performed \u201cAmazing Grace\u201d at his 2016 Country Music Hall of Fame induction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Randy Travis\u2019 Doctors Were Going To \u201cPull The Plug\u201d After His 2013 Stroke Before His Wife Intervened\r\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":29983,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[6566,279,1289],"class_list":["post-32766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-mary-travis","tag-randy-travis","tag-stroke"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-12 17:04:54","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country959.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2025\/08\/doctors-wanted-to-pull-plug-after-randy-travis-stroke\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}