The adventuresome singer, who makes up one-half of the country-bluegrass duo Joey + Rory with her husband, Rory, was afresh accepted into auberge affliction afterwards catastrophe analysis for colorectal blight in backward October.
In a new account with The Tennessean appear on Saturday, Joey opened up about her action with date 4 blight as she accepts and prepares for what seems to be her final date of life.
When asked how she acquainted if she apparent her terminal blight had alternate admitting assorted treatments, tests and surgeries, Joey -- who was aboriginal diagnosed with the ache in May 2014 -- accepted she was "greatly disappointed."
"I wasn't mad at [God], I wasn't upset," she explained. "I was just abundantly disappointed. I absolutely anticipation we had it. I thought, 'I'm traveling to be that exception. I'm traveling to be that accomplishment that stands out and says, 'She fought it.' We did the a lot of acute anaplasty we can do in the gynecologic world, and she did well.' But for whatever reason, it wasn't enough, and God had altered plans. I was disappointed. I was exhausted."
Joey began to cry as she connected on, saying, "More than anything, I acquainted like I bootless at something. I anticipation I did everything. But God absitively for me that my job of singing for humans down actuality is my legacy, and he needs me singing up there. That's how I attending at it."
Joey fabricated the accommodation to stop treatments and acknowledgment to her home to beleaguer herself with admired ones, like her admired 2-year-old daughter, Indiana, as she believes she doesn't accept too abundant time left. In October, doctors originally told her she had about six to nine months to live. But as Rory acclaimed in his latest blog post, their a lot of contempo cruise to the hospital was a disappointment, as they abstruse there was annihilation abroad that could be done to advice Joey's acute situation.
"It's area God gives and he taketh away," she explained of abiding to the abode she grew up in. "I said, 'Rory, if it's OK with you, this is area I was born, it's area I was raised, and this is area I die.' He said, 'Whatever you want.' I said, 'That's what I want.'"
Joey aswell said that she is agreeable and at accord as she lives out her final days.
"I adjure that one morning I just don't deathwatch up," she added. "But I don't abhorrence annihilation because I'm so abutting to God and we've talked about it so abounding times. I apperceive he's close. And I apperceive he loves me. I'm absolutely at peace. I still accept there's healing in prayer."
"This is goodbye," she said, catastrophe the interview. "Or, I'll see you later."
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