Bill Cody Wsm Needs Double Transplant After ICU Worsens

bill cody wsm now faces a double heart and kidney transplant after about three weeks in the ICU with heart and kidney failure. His family says that is his only option for survival, after a weekend turn for the worse pushed doctors to intubate him and place him on ECMO.

Hannah’s ICU update

Hannah said earlier this week that her father had passed all the necessary tests to qualify for the transplant list. She described the past stretch as “weeks of being on a roller coaster of emotions, tests, dialysis, medications, steps forwards and steps backwards,” before doctors decided that “his only option for survival would be a double transplant, heart and kidney.”

WSM Radio shared Hannah’s update from her father, who is a longtime host there and an announcer for the Grand Ole Opry. That makes the medical escalation more than a private family crisis: it involves a recognizable voice tied to two of country music’s most durable institutions, and it leaves the family waiting on the kind of donor match that transplant patients cannot control.

ECMO After the Weekend Decline

Over the weekend, Cody’s heart strength and ability to pump blood worsened, and doctors intubated him and put him on an ECMO machine. Hannah then asked people to pray, saying, “We need a miracle and we know God is able,” and “Please, if you’re able, stop and pray for these things.”

“Our family can’t thank you enough,” she said. That plea carries the weight of the medical reality now in front of them: the ICU stay has moved past stabilization and into a transplant-only path, with the family publicly asking for support while the list process and the machines keep him alive.