Joey Feek update: Rory and Joey counting their blessings in spite of tragic cancer journey

(Reuters)Country music duo Joey Rory kiss during the 46th annual Academy of Country Music Awards in Los Angeles

Despite losing her fight against terminal cancer, Joey Fleek and her husband, Rory, are more focused on the "plus's" of their lives instead of grieving over what is inevitable for their family: death of a loved one.

On January 28, Rory shared on their blog This Life I Live a reminiscent of how they started their music career and why they decided to have the "Joey Rory" as stage name.

"You Me = whatever this is going to be," he wrote. "[I]t might have been a bit confusing to others, the plus-sign made sense to us, and that's all that mattered."

God's blessings, Rory believed, are far bigger than the negative things they have to dwell on, like Rory having to raise Indiana, their 23-month-old daughter, on his own and going home to Tennessee without his wife.

He wrote with so much pain though, "Why would He give us such an incredible addition, and allow it to be followed by such a heartbreaking subtraction?" He was talking about their daughter, fondly called Indy, who was born three months before Joey was first diagnosed with cancer.

She underwent radical hysterectomy and chemotherapy for several months just to find out on her last round of chemo that her cancer had returned and was spreading aggressively to other parts of her body, including her colon.

Her doctors said she could continue with her treatment but it will not give her the cure she has always been praying for. Instead, it will only buy her more time to live. The couple decided to stop her treatment and just go home so she could spend her remaining time with her family.

"Joey and I both have questions... that we don't have answers for. But still we have faith — we choose to believe," Rory further wrote. "And so Joey and I do our best each day to only see the plus's in our life."

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