NOT THE ONLY WAY –
May 25, 2021 – He also revealed he would wake up during surgery following his accident as his tolerance to opioids was so high.
The star underwent 26 surgeries and multiple skin grafts after suffering burns to 60 percent of his body – while he was also told by doctors that there was a risk he wouldn’t be able to recover full use of his movements and had to be taught how to walk again.
He said: “I was told I wasn’t going to run again because I had so many grafts on my feet, and there was even talk of me never playing the drums again.
“As soon as I could walk, I could run. As soon as I could move my hands and my hands healed, I was playing drums. And now I’m in better shape than I’ve ever been.”
Travis went on to describe the crippling anxiety he endured following the plane crash, saying he would be convinced every plane he spotted in the sky would crash. e has since learned to ease his anxiety in more recent years following therapy, saying: “It’s gotten better the further I get away from it.
“The closer I was to it, it felt like I was closer to the bad stuff than I am to the good stuff. I felt closer to the experience of trying to escape, [to] being in an accident and being burned, trying to grab my friends from a burning plane. That haunted me for a long time. And as long as I was closer to that than this good stuff, I was always thinking about that.
