Travis Campbell son of legendary Glen Campbell tells of his journey of death and back
Travis Campbell son of legendary Glen Campbell tells of his journey of death and back. The son of legendary country star Glen Campbell sat down to talk to The Daily Banner about his experience with having a heart attack and stroke, dying and coming back from the dead. It is a story of love, miracles and how his mother’s love and the love of his wife pushed and pulled him back to the living.
Travis tells his story
This is Travis Campbell’s story in his own words. He calls it, “The Day I Died.”
I would like to share with you an event that changed my life. It was the day I died. The video you are about to watch is showing me in a coma after having a massive heart attack and stroke. I was code blue in the ambulance with my wife frantically urging the paramedics to not give up on me even though they could not keep my heart beating and I was clinically DEAD.
I had passed that vital 20 minute mark of no oxygen to my brain by the time I arrived in the emergency room. Dr. Limlik tried explaining to my wife that I was too far gone to be saved and the chances of me ever recovering were slim to none. He then asked her if she wanted to let me go and by that he meant stop CPR and let me die.
My wife Trudy
The Dr. said my wife Trudy quickly without any hesitation whatsoever said “NO, ABSOLUTELY NOT.” She wanted them to do everything they could to save me and she kept repeating, “Just please don’t let him die.” The doctor said he followed her instructions as his medical team raced me to surgery. The emergency nurses and doctors continued lifesaving procedures as they wheeled my lifeless body down the hallway of Wesley Trauma unit. The Doctor later told me they lost count of how many times I was shocked and they continued chest compression’s all the way into the operating room.
They put me on ice
After surgery they put me on ice for 48 hours in what is called a state of hydrothermia and at that point I was in a coma. It took another 48 hours to bring my body temp back to normal. I remained in the coma during that time. The doctors then started the dangerous process of warming my body back up. Three days later the Wesley doctor requested a brain scan which showed no brain activity and the doctor explained to my wife that there was nothing more they could do for me. They left the decision in the hands of my wife whether to turn off the machine that was keeping my heart beating.
My wife said NO
The nurse Betty later told me my wife’s response was loud and clear “NO.” She said, “He is not going to leave this world like this! I can’t stand to hear this anymore. I am not unplugging his machine.”
Miracles
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My mother and Mother Teresa
She stayed by my side playing me music and talking to me. She placed a picture of my mother Billie Jean with Mother Teresa next to my bed. Days went by and my wife called in a holy man named Tony Cline. He brought me a prayer cloth that had been prayed over anointed. He put the prayer cloth on my arm and began praying.
This particular day my wife decided to record the meeting because this very day back on June 24th 1980 was the day her father was killed in a wheat truck wreck. My wife felt that this would be the day something was going to happen. This turn out to be the day that I miraculously defied all odds. I responded and my hand began to shake. The doctors said “I came back from the dead.”
Mom told me to go back
I’ve been asked by many medical professionals about my experience and what I saw during this time. I can tell you that I awoke screaming, “she won’t let me stay, mom won’t let me stay.” It was my mother Billie Jean Campbell who passed away in 1992 that I felt hugging me. I can remember her telling me, “You cannot stay with me now.”
Coma patients can hear their visitors
I encourage anyone that may be going through something similar to this who may know someone in a coma or on life support to share this story with them. My doctor said I’m his first unexplained miracle in 30 years! I’m one of the very few cases throughout the world where someone dared to defy all odds of medical science. Having my wife by my side to take that leap of faith when I couldn’t do it myself, dream that impossible dream and had the courage to stand up and say, “I believe in his strength to recover,” is what helped save me.
My wife and mother are my angels
My wife and my mother are my angels. I am truly blessed to have someone love me enough to not give up on me especially when I could not speak for myself. I was blessed to have my wife stand up and be my voice until I was strong enough to speak for myself. I’m blessed that the modern miracle of a life support machine kept my heart beating until it was strong enough to beat on its own.
I’m so blessed for having all of you in my life, the hundreds of thousands of letters and emails I have received from all of you. I wish I could somehow repay in kind how your words and prayers moved me to tears, I thank you so much for sharing your lives with me and I thank my beautiful wife that stood beside me. I am very humbled and so very blessed. Thank you. Travis Campbell
Learning to live again
Travis Campbell is still healing and learning to live again. As each month goes by he gets stronger and stronger and regains something that was lost as a result of his stroke, heart attack, dying, and being brought of a coma experience. It is a fair statement to say that the stress caused by his father’s situation on the struggle to gaining access for visitation to his father was a contributor to his health crisis.
Why Me
He has asked himself the question many times. Why was I spared? He has come to believe that he was brought back to fight for not only his father but for the rights of all parents and children.
The New Law in Tennessee
Travis Campbell in conjunction with the Catherine Falk Organization got the Tennessee Campbell Falk Bill passed into law. Travis Campbell want to help those that can’t help themselves at this time in my life. He wants to help insure that all parents and children have equal rights and equal visitation to one another. A conservator should not be able to pick and chose which loved ones get to see a ward/patient. This bill insures that everyone gets equal time and rights unless proven in court that someone shouldn’t have those right before being disallowed those rights. You can see a copy of that new law by clicking here.
Travis bless you and your lovely wife Trudy. You can be sure that your lovely mum told you you could not stay because you have work to do on this earth, as you said helping people who cannot see their parents because some conservator has taken a dislike to them. here in Australia my sister and I lost a beautiful friend he was diagnosed with very very early lung cancer. He died 6 years later untreated because his family decided to do nothing about it. We could not even get a second opinion from a doctor to put before a judge because no other doctor was allowed to look at him. He had signed a power of attorney with his sons. They had told him to sign this or they would never speak to him again so he signed. No one survives in treated cancer for 6 years unless it is eminently treatable which it was. Effectively he signed his own Death Warrant and we had to watch him die. He had been an extremely fit man and died aged 70. Love to you both and your mother has left you here on Earth to continue your work. blessings. Brenda from Melbourne Australia.
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GOD MOVES IN MYSTERIOUS WAYS!!
Welcome back, brother. Do the Best you are able to.
Hello, Travis wow! GREAT REVEAL ABOUT YOUR DEATH EXPERIENCE,I remember when you went to the Dunn school in Los Olivos Ca.Your Mom came up into the parking lot in a pink or red 450 sl, dressed to match the car and a little dog. She asked me to get you.
I TRIED TO BEFRIEND YOU. HOPE THINGS ARE GOOD FOR YOU.