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Joey Feek is surrounded by love as she nears the end of herbattle with cancer. The country singer of the duo Joey + Rory enteredhospice care earlier this month and has since been spending her final days with lovedones in her hometown of Alexandria, Indiana.
On Sunday, Joey’s doting husband Rory Feek shared aheartwarming photo of the ladies in his life – wife Joey, the couple’s daughter1-year-old daughter Indiana andhis teenage daughters Heidi and Hopie (from a previous relationship) –embracing each other in a group hug. He captioned the emotional photo, “Our girls drove up herelast night to spend more time with their mom and little sister.”
At the center of the photo's group hug is Joey, who was diagnosed with cervical cancer back in 2014. Following her diagnosis last year, the 40-year-old underwent a radicalhysterectomy, but her cancer returned earlier this yearforcing her to cease chemo and radiation treatments. Rory has been documenting his wife’sbattle on his blog This Life I Live, sharing health updates and sweet recaps ofthe couple’s marriage.
Joey opened up to The Tennessean in October, in what is likelyher final interview, about accepting death and not being afraid. “I pray that one morning I just don’t wake up,” she told them.“But I don’t fear anything because I’m so close to God and we’ve talked aboutit so many times. I know he’s close. And I know he loves me. I’m really atpeace. I still believe there’s healing in prayer.”
Upon learning her cancer had returned, Joeyrevealed to the outlet that she wasn’t “mad” at God. “I was justgreatly disappointed. I really thought we had it. I thought, ‘I’m going to bethat exception. I’m going to be that statistic that stands out,’” she explained. “Butfor whatever reason, it wasn’t enough, and God had different plans. I wasdisappointed. I was exhausted.”
Joey added, “God decided for methat my job of singing for people down here is my legacy, and he needs mesinging up there. That’s how I look at it.”
