Joey Martin Feek is 'very, very strong,' says husband Rory Feek

ALEXANDRIA, Ind., Nov. 29 (UPI) -- Country music star Rory Feek says he and his wife and stage partner Joey Martin Feek recently discussed how much to share with the public about her terminal cancer.

"So together, we made some decisions. This is our life. It's what He has given us to live. And share. Sharing what we're going through with others is really all we have to give. If you share what you're going through with me... maybe I'll be able to draw something good from it if I am one day in your shoes," Rory Feek wrote Sunday on his blog This Life I Live.

"I want to try to shine a light on something first though. The word 'hospice' makes us all think the worst. The end. Or at least, the end is very close," he said, explaining that since some people live for months under hospice care, he doesn't know exactly how long he and his wife have left together.

"And so that's where we are. A hospice nurse comes once or twice a week and she helps to make sure that Joey's pain is under control -- that her morphine drip is working properly -- and to see if she and we, her caregivers, need anything," Feek continued. "But God chooses the appointed time. Not us. Not hospice. My wife is strong. Very very strong. So is her will to live. Especially with a little one who gets excited every morning to see her."

Feek has been updating Joey & Rory fans about Joey's brave battle against the agressive disease, as well as her recent decision to discontinue treatment and begin hospice care at home where she can spend time with Rory and their young daughter Indiana. Joey is 40.