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TWO WEEKS AFTER OPEN-HEART SURGERY, INDY FEEK PASSED OUT AND WOULDN’T WAKE UP. HER FATHER LATER WROTE, “WE THOUGHT WE HAD LOST HER.” Indiana Feek had just spent a beautiful week recovering at home in Waco when everything suddenly changed. On Wednesday night, she became sick, started vomiting and nearly fainted several times. Early the next morning, Indy lost consciousness—and would not wake up. Rory Feek said he and his wife, Rebecca, had never been more frightened. Paramedics rushed Indy to a hospital in Waco. From there, she was flown to Dell Children’s Medical Center in Austin, where doctors discovered a dangerous complication from the inflammation following her heart surgery. Fluid had collected around her heart, preventing it from beating properly. Doctors drained 610 cc of fluid. Almost immediately, Indy’s heart rate returned to normal. By that evening, she was awake and ordering her favorite food from the hospital cafeteria. The following morning, her color had returned, and the little girl her family knew was back—smiling, talking and playing game after game of Uno. Doctors expect her to make a full recovery. Rory called the experience a terrible but wonderful wake-up call—one that left their family more grateful than ever. Indy is doing well, but her healing journey is not over. Please keep this sweet girl and her family in your prayers.

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And so it went, until yesterday morning, when we made one last visit to the hospital. Dr Fraser and his team said that Indy is doing amazing and gave her a big thumbs up, and told us we were free to head north to Waco.

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And that our sweet neighbors had moved Indy’s things down the hall for us…into her new big girl, friend-friendly bedroom (rather than her bunkbeds which would be hard for her to get in and out of right now).

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Scotty McCreery’s cover of Conway Twitty’s “Hello Darlin’” has become a major country music moment, with the preview passing 40 million views online before the full recording arrived.

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A REIGNING QUEEN OF NASHVILLE COULD HAVE SEEN THE STRUGGLING NEWCOMER AS A THREAT — BUT THE WARDROBE SHE OPENED IN 1961 CHANGED THE RULES OF COUNTRY MUSIC. In the early 1960s, Nashville’s country music scene was a closed, male-dominated fortress. When Loretta Lynn arrived—a young mother of four from a poor Kentucky coal town, wearing cheap, hand-sewn dresses—she was terrified and out of place. Patsy Cline was already a formidable superstar, recovering from a near-fatal car crash yet holding absolute power in the industry. The traditional script of show business dictated rivalry. Instead, Patsy invited Loretta and her husband to her home for a simple, home-cooked dinner. She did not offer pity; she offered a seat at her own table. When Patsy noticed Loretta’s struggle to look the part of a star, she opened her personal closet. She gave the younger singer her expensive stage dresses, makeup, and patient lessons on how to command a room. When they walked the halls of the Grand Ole Opry, Patsy linked arms with Loretta, offering a silent but absolute declaration to every executive watching: she is with me. Behind closed doors, Patsy even threatened to cancel her own shows if promoters refused to pay Loretta fairly. Patsy’s dresses became Loretta’s armor. The shared laughter in cramped dressing rooms erased the deep isolation of a mother missing her children on the road. Patsy Cline could not sing the songs that would eventually make Loretta Lynn an immortal American icon. What she gave her was the unshakeable conviction that a coal miner’s daughter was worthy of standing on the stage—but the exact conversations they shared to protect each other from a ruthless industry remain a deeper chapter known only to the women who lived it.