Kate Garraway shared a “heartbreaking” update on her husband Derek Draper, revealing that he was her first word since she was admitted to the hospital with COVID-19 seven months ago.
The husband of Good Morning Britain’s 53-year-old star has spent the past 214 days confined to a hospital bed and is no longer positive for the death test, remains seriously ill.
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Kate has now revealed that Derek was able to speak for the first time, whispering the word “pain” to his wife, who saw her “crying” in FaceTime.
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“We had a breakthrough that was heartbreaking,” Kate, 53, told The Sun. “It happened when the nurses moved Derek, as a component of his treatment, to cause the feeling of gravity because he had been horizontally for so long.
“As they moved him, they asked him if he could feel anything, without waiting for an answer as he had not done before. But he murmured in a whisper, ‘Pain. ‘
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Derek entered the hospital on March 30.
“Obviously, it’s so heartbreaking that his first word ‘pain’, however, is a breakthrough because it means he’s able to attach the sensation of his body to his brain and mouth. “
Kate added: “They called me immediately afterwards and I cried. Then they told me they were also very excited.
“I am broken by the center that there have been times when he has suffered extraordinarily and has not been able to speak it. He said it twice now and me there for the moment once, looking at it in FaceTime. “
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“Of course, there’s a big difference between saying the word ‘pain’ and Derek being the Derek I know and love. But I feel in his eyes that he’s there, and that we have to stand in this dark battle. . “
Kate’s update on Derek’s fitness comes after she announces that she is expected to appear in a moving ITV documentary about the coronavirus pandemic and its effects on her and her family.
News of the exceptional special was shown Thursday in Lorraine. Kate is expected to talk to disease survivors as well as NHS frontline staff.
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