Joey Feek To Return Home To Hospice Care After Weekend In Hospital

Written by Lauren Jo Black
Joey Feek To Return Home To Hospice Care After Weekend In Hospital

It’s a tough and trying time for Joey and Rory Feek of the duo Joey and Rory. After making the decision to discontinue treatments late last month, Joey, 40, has been spending time at home in Indiana with her family doing her best to combat the cancer that has continued to spread through her body.

As he has through the course of Joey’s battle with cancer, Rory continues to update fans on his wife’s health through his blog, This Life I Live

Last week, Rory revealed that Joey had spent time with her step daughters and talked with them about her condition and the possibility of leaving them. On Thursday, hundreds of Joey’s family and friends gathered in her hometown to pray for her while thousands more prayed from home. That night, that members of Joey’s family, including her father, three sisters, and niece, shaved their heads in solidarity.

This morning, Rory posted another blog, relaying that he and Joey had spent the weekend in the hospital. He wrote…

We prayed. We all prayed.
God answered.
At 4 am on Friday morning we rushed Joey to the hospital in Muncie. Her pain had become too much to bare. A few hours later the doctors told us that the pain was from the cancer tumors continuing to grow and become inflamed and we need to concentrate now on helping her be comfortable.
Not the answer we hoped for… but the answer He has given us.

While at the hospital, Joey spent time with their 1-year-old daughter, Indiana. She played with her and sang her hymns until she fell asleep.

Rory also expressed his thanks to fans for sending them recordable books, ones that his bride recorded her voice on while in the hospital so that Indy would always be able to hear her mother’s voice.

Later this evening, when it was just Joey and I, Joey read into a couple of ‘recordable’ books to Indiana.  The books are gifts from fans and friends that seemed to know how important it is to connect today to tomorrow for our little girl.  Joey’s hope is that our little one will be able to sit on my lap in days to come and turn pages and hear her mama reading to her.

Joey got some relief, thanks to the morphine administered by the hospital. They plan to bring her home today. He ended his blog by writing…

 

Hospice is arranged and a hospital bed will be delivered later this morning.  We’ll have a play area on the carpet nearby – close enough for her to watch Indy play, and for Indy to turn and make sure her mama can see her.

Joey is at peace with where she is and where she’s going.  So am I.

An answer to prayer.