Long-time cancer patient, 67-year-old Bunnia Greenwood, has always loved Randy Travis.
When the singer heard about her, he decided to pay her a visit at the hospital where she is receiving treatment.
Before Travis came in her hospital room, a family member presented with her a huge, autographed Randy Travis poster. Once he entered, Greenwood was in shock for a moment as she shook Travis’s wife’s hand and then bursted into tears.
“Thank you so much,” Greenwood told Travis. “I have been a fan of yours for years.”
After there visit was over, they posed for a large group photo with hospital staff at the City of Hope Cancer Center in Chicago.
“Throughout multiple cancer diagnoses and years of treatment, Bunnia has faced every chapter with remarkable strength and resilience. On hard days and good days alike, the music of country legend @therandytravis has kept her spirit lifted and her heart full,” the hospital wrote in an Instagram clip.
Greenwood was an NICU nurse for over 30 years. Her attitude about her life and treatment is “choose joy.”
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“Their time together was filled with warmth, connection and the kind of joy that words cannot fully capture. We are deeply grateful to Randy and his wife, @rtandmt (Mary Davis), for helping create such a meaningful moment for a cherished member of our City of Hope community,” the caption said.
Travis faces difficulty with movement and speech since his stroke in 2013. That hasn’t stopped him from going on tour. His “The More Life Tour” launched in April and paused in June this year, TODAY reported.
It will kick off again on Aug. 21, in Georgia and will conclude in November in Missouri.
The fact that Travis is alive, well and very active today is a miracle. In 2013, he was comatose after his stroke and doctors advised his wife, Mary, to end his life support.
“I think Randy, there was never a doubt in Randy’s mind that he could make it through it. It was that magical moment that I went to his bedside when they said, ‘We need to pull the plug. He’s got too many things going against him at that point.’ He had gotten a staph infection and three other hospital-born bacterial viruses like Serratia, Pseudomonas, one thing after another, and the doctors were just saying, ‘He just doesn’t have the strength to get through this,'” she recalled to Fox News.
She went him and held his hand, and he squeezed it. A tear even fell from his eyes. She knew with out a doubt that he was still fighting and she would not be pulling that plug.
“I knew at that point in time, because he had every odd in the world against him, and he wasn’t giving up. And I was so encouraged by that, to be honest. He was my inspiration,” she said.
Currently, Travis is working on his first album in 18 years. The name and release date hasn’t been announced yet, but its first single, “Fish On,” came out in July.
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