Joey Feek Cancer Battle Update: Joey+Rory so Thankful Just to have been Nominated for Grammy
They may not have won this year's Grammy award for Best Country Duo/Group Performance, but country singers and married couple Joey and Rory Feek say that just being nominated is "more than enough."
The couple, who make up the country/bluegrass duo Joey+Rory, were nominated for their 2015 single "If I Needed You" and were up against Blake Shelton and Ashley Monroe's "Lonely Tonight," Little Big Town's "Girl Crush," Brothers Osborne's "Stay A Little Longer," and "The Driver" by Charles Kelley, Dierks Bentley, and Eric Paslay. The award, which was announced in the Grammy ceremony's online broadcast ahead of CBS' telecast, went to Little Big Town.
The day after the Grammys, the Feeks posted an Instagram photo of their Grammy nomination medal, captioning it, "…more than enough." The couple are currently spending what may be their final days together. Joey is battling terminal cervical cancer and chose to go into hospice care instead of continuing treatment in October 2015. The Feeks married in 2002 and have a daughter, Indiana, who has Down's syndrome.
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In December 2015, Rory, who keeps fans updated on his wife's condition through the blog "This Life I Live," recounted how he broke the news of their Grammy nomination to Joey. In a Facebook post, Rory said: "Woke my bride up this morning with a baby in my arms and the news that our version of 'If I Needed You' was nominated for a Grammy. As her excitement and tears flowed into mine, she said, 'how can that be?' The song received no radio airplay... no press... no critical acclaim... and the only music video we made for it was to celebrate the day our little Indiana was born."
In a recent blog post, Rory said that Joey had tried to talk him into going with Hopie and Heidi, his daughters from a previous marriage, to the Grammy Awards ceremony. Joey, he said, had even gone as far as buying him a plane ticket, but he decided to stay with her and watch the ceremony together on TV. In his post, Rory said, as quoted by Today, "I have done many foolish things and made lots of mistakes in my life, but this isn't going to be one of them."
