As the cancer continued to spread, joey and Rory announced in October 2015 that she would stop undergoing chemotherapy. "We came home. Not to die. But to live. To put our hands in each others and sit out on the back porch and watch the sun set as our sweet little baby girl plays on a blanket in front of us," Rory wrote about Joey's decision. "To bask in the glory of the beautiful life He's blessed us with, and try not to question why we can't have more of it together. And why He is allowing this to happen." Still, despite the heartbreak, the couple were planning to enjoy every second they had left together. "The doctors gave us an estimate of how much time they believe that Joey has, and we both looked at the calendar that hangs by our kitchen door, then I took the calendar off the wall and threw in the trash can," he wrote. "So we don't have forever. We've got right now. And that's enough."