So hard to say goodbye. Country singer Rory Feek wrote a touching new blog post on Saturday, January 16, about his terminally ill wife, Joey Feek, being “inconsolable” over saying goodbye to her best friend, Julie Zamboldi.
“I
put my arms around her and asked what was wrong,” Rory wrote of his
wife, who is in hospice care. “As her lips quivered and she tried to
catch her breath, the tears streamed down her cheeks and Joey said, ‘I
don’t think I will ever see her again.’”
Zamboldi
met the couple, who performed as the duo Joey + Rory, nearly eight
years ago at their first Big & Buckle Festival. Joey and Zamboldi
soon became very close friends.
“Like
an angel from heaven, it was as if God sent Julie to us. To her,” Rory
continued. “But none of us exactly knew why, until the cancer showed up
again this summer.”
Joey was diagnosed with stage IV cervical cancer in 2014, but she decided to stop chemotherapy treatments
in October after the cancer returned and spread to her colon. When Joey
started losing her hair, Zamboldi shaved her own head to show her
support for her best friend.
“Months
later and as Joey’s condition has continued to improve, then worsen,
again and again ... Julie has made three trips to Washington and is back
here with us again,” Joey added. “She’s been here all week, helping
Joey’s sister Jody take care of my wife and me and everyone else.
She cooks, she cleans, changes the baby’s diaper, and does any and
everything else that she can find to do that needs to be done while
we’re living here out of suitcases ... not waiting for someone we love
to die. But helping the woman we all love to live.”
Rory has been chronicling Joey’s battle on his blog, This Life I Live, from her hometown of Alexandria, Indiana, where she is in hospice. The pair has a 23-month-old daughter, Indiana.
Earlier this week, Rory said that he has “no desire to go on singing” without his leading lady.
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