Travis, who has aphasia, a condition that limits his ability to speak and give interviews, reveals his painful, months long recovery from the stroke in the new memoir chronicling his rise to fame in candid detail. Only the only person that's going to take him out of this world is God.'' He's not ready to give up and we're not giving up. 'And the warrior that he is, he mustered up the strength to squeeze my hand,' Travis said in an interview with The Associated Press. She said she saw a tear fall from his cheek. Mary Travis, who would later marry Travis in 2015, described in his new memoir that she sat at his bedside and asked him if they should keep fighting. His doctors told his then-girlfriend that it would be a matter of time before his heart stopped.

Complications were piling up, including a collapsed lung and infections, and the country star was in a near comatose state. More than a month after Randy Travis suffered a near fatal stroke in 2013, doctors were not hopeful about his recovery.

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