{"id":33760,"date":"2025-11-16T07:00:51","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T12:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/?p=33760"},"modified":"2025-11-11T10:28:26","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T15:28:26","slug":"clay-walker-talks-life-with-ms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2025\/11\/clay-walker-talks-life-with-ms\/","title":{"rendered":"Clay Walker Talks Life With MS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Clay Walker, who was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS) in 1996, <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/clay-walker-multiple-sclerosis-exclusive-11845590\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">revealed that he is currently facing a challenging period with his condition. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>The 56-year-old country star underwent surgery in March 2025 to implant a baclofen pump aimed at easing muscle spasticity, though his balance and mobility remain difficult.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the rough patch and visible struggles on stage, Walker remains determined and optimistic, crediting physical therapy and small progress like walking unassisted on a treadmill for hope.<\/p>\n<p>Celebrating nearly 30 years of living with MS, Walker is embracing his journey with resilience, describing himself as \u201clike a pit bull\u201d who refuses to give up, finding joy and energy in performing while acknowledging MS as the difficult cross he must bear.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cMS has been a journey and some of it has been pretty rough, but I\u2019ve started to turn the corner. My joy comes from being on stage.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[twitter id=&#8221;1986934717527056845&#8243;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Clay Walker Reveals That He\u2019s \u201cGoing Through A Rough Patch\u201d With Multiple Sclerosis","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":33761,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[990,6756,6757,1007],"class_list":["post-33760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-clay-walker","tag-ms","tag-multiple-sclerosis","tag-people"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-12 20:40:43","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\/11\/clay-walker-talks-life-with-ms\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33760","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=33760"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33762,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33760\/revisions\/33762"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}