Kate Garraway has said her children are “absolutely loving” their father Derek Draper being home after spending the last year in hospital following his coronavirus battle.
Derek, 53, spent just over a year in intensive care after he contracted the virus in March 2020, only returning to his family home in North London on Wednesday evening.
On Good Morning Britain on Monday, Kate, 53, recalled how daughter Darcy, 15, and son Billy, 11 “are over the moon and overwhelmed in equal measure” to have their dad back.
Kate compared bringing Derek home to bringing home a newborn baby.
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She said that after extensive planning she asked herself once he was home: “What the heck do we do now?”
Kate stressed: “It’s been completely overwhelming but also wonderful.”
Co-host Susanna Reid asked how the family are enjoying the former lobbyist and political adviser Derek home.
Kare replied saying they are “over the moon”.
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Kate said: “We are over the moon and overwhelmed in equal measure.
“I do remember that day when you brought home your firstborn and you had sort of been planning for nine months and then you think ‘what the heck do we do now?’.
“It’s a little bit like that feeling.
“It’s been completely overwhelming but also wonderful.”
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She added: “It was a medical reason for coming home as well as our desire and his desire to to encourage a more normal environment to stimulate his recovery and consciousness and they [the children] have been absolutely loving it.
“Really helpful. It’s been great actually.”
Doctors reported that Derek had been “universally affected” by covid. This means his lungs, heart, kidneys, liver and pancreas had all been hit by covid.
When Derek was at his worst, hospital staff feared that he might have remained in a vegetative state permanently and In January, Kate admitted that her husband’s body was being “ravaged by coronavirus”.
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