Life Note: Our thoughts and prayers continue to be with Joey + Rory's Joey Feek, who has decided to stop treatment for her Stage 4 cervical cancer. After surgery to remove the cancer, Feek completed six weeks of chemo and radiation (CAT 6/15) and was preparing for another round when a CT scan showed the cancer had returned and was aggressively spreading. "Sometimes there just aren't enough surgeries – or doctors – or chemotherapies – or prayers," says Rory in his blog This Life I Live. "And you have to wipe the tears from your cheeks and say the words that you were hoping to never have to say… Enough. 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 [it] in the trash can. So we don't have forever. We've got right now. And that's enough."

Thoughts and prayers also continue to be with WGH/Norfolk's Mark McKay, who will undergo surgery Monday (10/26) in New York to remove a tumor. McKay has been undergoing cancer treatment for the last seven months, and will spend two weeks at the hospital for post-op recovery and observation. He says other than five years of screening, this should be the end of his treatment. Always looking at the bright side, McKay adds, "The good news? Between the removal of the tumor, the fact that hospital food is typically less than great and the fact that I can't have beer for a while all add up to me dropping a few pounds along the way." Send him well wishes here.