Joey Feek Cancer Update: Rory Hopes Touching Home Videos Will Keep Joey’s Memory Alive For Daughter

Joey Feek is nearing the end of her battle with cervical cancer, and her husband and duet partner Rory Feek is taking every opportunity to capture his wife on video so her memory can live on for their 23-month-old daughter Indiana (Indy).

According to a previous report by the Inquisitr, Joey Feek was diagnosed with end stage cervical cancer in May 2014, three months after giving birth to her daughter. At the advice of her doctors, Joey later underwent a radical hysterectomy and several rounds of chemotherapy and radiation. However, despite their efforts, an October 2015 scan revealed that her cancer had not only returned, but had also spread to other parts of her body, including her colon.

Because her cancer was spreading so rapidly and aggressively, Joey decided to end her cancer treatment and return to her home in hospice care to live out the remainder of her days with her family. Since then, Rory has been documenting her battle through words, videos, and pictures that he frequently shares on his blog This Life I Live, and on Facebook. During a recent interview with People Magazine, Rory explained why he decided to start the blog, and why he and Joey decided to share their story.

“I am a songwriter who hasn’t been writing songs in the last couple of years, so sitting down and writing these stories about our lives has been a wonderful creative outlet for me,” Rory explained. “Each blog post has also been therapeutic for me, in the sense that there are some parts of what we’re going through that I’m not sure what to make of. Writing about it helps me to sort out what I feel and how to respond to the twists and turns that life has taken us on.”

In a November post titled “braver than me,” Rory revealed how he and Joey decided what, and how much, to share about their life.

“I carefully choose what I share,” he wrote at the time. “It would break my heart to have the thousands of ‘before’ photos out there of her looking beautiful and healthy all these years… be replaced in people’s minds and hearts by a single ‘after’ photo of what cancer has done.”

“So together, we made some decisions,” Rory continued. “This is our life. It’s what He has given us to live. And share. Sharing what we’re going through with others is really all we have to give. If you share what you’re going through with me… maybe I’ll be able to draw something good from it if I am one day in your shoes.”

When he’s not writing, Rory focuses on capturing memories with his camera. Over the past few months, Rory has shared photos of Joey and her daughter Indiana reading books, playing dress up, and giving good night kisses. He always tries to capture the moments so he can share them with Indy long after her mother is gone.

“Without realizing I was doing it, God has allowed me to capture hours and hours of Joey and her life at home on the farm, raising Indiana and playing music,” he added. “I can’t help but believe that those clips will be an important part of keeping Joey’s memory alive in Indy’s heart.”

The country music duo has their final album coming out on February 12. The album, Hymns That Are Important To Us, is a very special album which Rory calls “Joey’s album.”

“[It’s] the one she’s always wanted to make – filled with the hymns she grew up with,” Rory wrote on his blog. “I think Joey wants to capture the words and music of her childhood. The music that she goes to when she needs comfort. The music that makes this beautiful, tragic, crazy life somehow make sense.”

[Photo by Matt Sayles/Associated Press]