Kate Garraway has updated fans on husband Derek Draper’s health woes as she admitted having a family garden has become a lifeline for her.
The Good Morning Britain host appeared on Love Your Garden as she spoke about nurturing a space the family can spend time in together and how it will help them to deal with Derek’s condition.
Kate, 54, has been caring for Derek ever since he came home from spending over a year in hospital when he contracted Covid-19 and suffered organ failure as a result of complications of the virus.
Now she has created a well-being garden for her, Derek, and their two children Darcey, 16 and Billy, 12.
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Kate is hoping the open space will help them to cope with the stress and strain of coping with Derek’s illness.
She said: “The garden needs to be more than a space to go into. I really want to grow some plants to improve our health and wellbeing.”
Getting to work on the green masterpiece she raised her hopes for the garden, which will feature three separate holistic flowerbeds – an aromatherapy bed, one for plants that can be transformed into healthy teas, and one for medicinal plants that have properties such as antioxidants.
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She added: “I love the idea that there’s plants that look good, smell good and do good. I hope it works.
“If you look past the initial beauty of the plants, it can give you so much more. I haven’t quite proved you can grow yourself well but I think I’ve definitely learnt you can grow yourself happier.”
Kate recently elaborated further on Derek’s health explaining how it’s hard to tell where he is at mentally.
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She said: “I don’t know about mental wellbeing if I’m absolutely honest, because he is still so affected in terms of communication and mobility that I wouldn’t feel qualified to say whether it had had an impact in terms of depression and anxiety.
“I mean it must be I would have thought, because if you are still unable to communicate and very challenged mobility wise, and lung, and all the other things, then that is going to affect.”
She added: “It’s interesting isn’t it that now at last… everything was focused on the lungs, and then people were understanding there is fatigue, which is actually a neurological problem anyway, and now more and more we are realising the wider impact.”
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