MUNCIE, Ind. – November 9, 2015 — (UPI) — Country music artist Rory Feek shared the heartbreaking news Monday that his terminally ill wife Joey is now under hospice care.
The couple made up the performing duo Joey & Rory.
Joey, 40, first revealed in June 2014 that she was battling cervical cancer. The Feeks announced last month she had stopped treatment because the disease was spreading so aggressively.
“At 4 a.m. on Friday morning we rushed Joey to the hospital in Muncie. Her pain had become too much to bare,” Rory wrote on his blog This Life I Live.
“After a series of different medications that didn’t seem to touch the pain — heavy doses of morphine brought Joey sweet relief. I spent the night in the hospital with her last night. Today we are planning to bring her home.”
Rory said Joey has been spending her final days singing to and playing with their 20-month-old daughter Indiana and recording her voice onto audio storybooks so the little girl can hear her after she dies.
“Joey is at peace with where she is and where she’s going,” Rory wrote. “So am I. An answer to prayer.”
