Joey Feek entered hospice care in November as she continued to battle terminal cancer, as previously reported by HNGN, and her health has taken a turn for the worse. Her husband, and one-half of the husband-and-wife duo Joey + Rory, updated his blog "This Life I Live" and said that his wife is "ready to come home."
"Yesterday with tears in her eyes and mine, Joey held my hand and told me that she has been having serious talks with Jesus," Rory, 49, wrote. "She said she told him that if He's ready to take her... she's ready to come home."
Rory noted the parallel between the couple's 2012 song "When I'm Gone" and the situation he and his wife are going through now. The song was written by Nashville singer-songwriter Sandy Lawrence about her experience with her caring for her ill mother, according to Rory. Joey sang vocals on the track and the couple shot a music video for the song in 2012, before she was diagnosed with stage four terminal cervical cancer last year.
The song, which will be included in the couple's upcoming final album "Hymns That Are Important To Us," hit close to home to Rory as he sat "beside his dying wife," he wrote.
"Her pain and discomfort has continued to increase daily and so has the morphine to help her be comfortable," Rory continued. "The dosage she's needed to keep the pain away has quadrupled in the last four days."
But he said the song is "filled with hope and love," according to his post. "And in time, I believe it will have the power to help heal a million broken hearts... Even mine."
"Hymns That Are Important To Us" is due for a Feb. 14 release. Watch Joey + Rory's music video for "When I'm Gone" below.
