Rory Feek Gives Us a Hopeful Update About Joey Feek's Stage IV Cervical Cancer Surgery

Rory Feek, one part of Christiaan country duo Joey + Rory Feek, on his own blog has given us a meditative update/" after his wife, Joey's surgery on July 9.  Joey was diagnosed with Stage IV Cervical Cancer and had to undergo a surgery that took 10 hours.  Rory writes:

"As I sit here next to Joey's hospital bed, there are bouquets of flowers lining the nurses desk outside her room door (they can't bring them into her room, until she's out of ICU and in a regular room) and behind me get-well cards line her window sill.  Joey is resting soundly and all I can hear is her breath and the sounds of the machines monitoring her heart rate and oxygen and administering IV's and pain medicine into her veins.  It's a an eerie, beautiful quiet after the storm.

Today was a good day.  After a long night of chills and fevers and her body temperature rising and falling...late this morning Joey started stabilizing and coming out of the remaining effects of deep fog the anesthesia had put her in.  By noon the nurses had her on her feet and "walking" down the hall - holding onto a walker and her IV tree, as she made dozens of very small steps in the right direction.  An hour ago, two of the nurses were gently bathing my bride, telling her stories and french-braiding her hair.  This place is truly wonderful.

Yesterday in the waiting room, one of the patients family members here came up to our manager Aaron and told him that she recognized us and that they were big fans of ours.  Then she told him, "tell Joey and Rory not to worry... in here, everyone is treated like a celebrity".   I love that.

The surgery took almost ten hours, so we didn't get to talk to the doctor or see Joey until after 10 pm last night.  When Joey's surgeon finally came out into the waiting room and sat down with us, he was so kind and wonderful and he talked with us for a long time.  He told us that everything had gone well in the surgery and that he believes that they were able to get all of the main tumor removed, along with two infected lymph nodes and other places that were affected.  They also did intra-operative radiation on some areas where they weren't able to get a clear margin.  All-in-all, he was very positive and hopeful.  So we are too.

Joey is going to be in recovery here at CTCA for 7 to 10 days, and then we'll be able to go home for a week or two, then we'll come back here for 5 weeks of chemo and radiation.  Once that is completed, Joey will start a more aggressive form of chemotherapy here that will last for 18 weeks.  And during that phase, she's going to be given the opportunity to look more like our sweet little Indiana.  She's gonna lose all of her pretty dark hair.

I took this of pic of Joey and Indy at the hotel before we left for the hospital.  She was telling her mama that she was gonna be brave...with a kiss."

 

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