While dealing with congestive heart failure in July 2013, the country singer suffered a massive stroke that left him unable to speak.
"In my case, my brain was functioning, and I could understand what [his wife] Mary said to me, but I could not respond in anything close to a sentence," Travis wrote in his 2019 memoir.
"When we first returned home, I could barely speak at all. We spent three months in speech therapy before I learned to say the letter 'A.' Eventually, after about a year and a half, I could say 'yup,' 'nope,' and 'bathroom.' I could also say 'I love you' and a few other phrases but not much more. All this was extremely frustrating for me; I felt like I was trapped inside the shell of my body."
Travis is continually making progress, though, and was able to regain his singing voice, even performing in recent years.
"The whole third midsection of Randy's left brain was affected, which is speaking, writing and reading," Mary told PEOPLE in 2019. "But each day there's something new that he says or does."
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