Kate Garraway’s husband Derek Draper is reportedly in hospital following a “serious” medical procedure.The Good Morning Britain presenter, 55, has been supporting her husband throughout his ongoing complications from an Covid infection he contracted in 2020. Back in July, Derek was rushed to A&E in July after he contracted sepsis, a condition that set back weeks of progress that had been made in his recovery.The former lobbyist was said to be having an operation on his kidneys.
Kate Garraway says husband had 'severe sepsis' and is waiting for next procedure
01.08.2022 - 09:47 / ok.co.uk
Kate Garraway has revealed her husband Derek Draper came down with "severe sepsis" after developing a bad kidney infection.The 55 year old returned to her presenting duties on ITV's Good Morning Britain on 1 August, where she told her co-host Richard Madeley, 66, and viewers exactly what happened to her husband when he was rushed back to hospital several weeks ago. Recalling the exactly date that it happened, which was on 9 July, Kate shared that they were on air when it all went down.
Kate said her husband, 54, had been in and out of hospital, looking at ways to tackle the damage caused by his Covid-19 battle back in 2020 – but there had been nothing major medically that they had to be in A&E for until this point. "I got a phone call from the person who was looking after him saying, 'Right, we're really worried'.
I whizzed home and it just sort of went boom from there," Kate told viewers. She continued: "We called an ambulance, went to A&E, where they said he had very severe sepsis, life-threatening sepsis.
So it was really dramatic." After praising the staff at A&E, Kate shared how they were then given the challenge to find the source of infection quickly and get the right antibiotics. "His blood pressure was so low," Kate said before explaining that they found the infection through the process of elimination.
"A really junior doctor said, 'What did you think it might be?' He knew it wasn't Covid-19 because we tested before we left the hospital on the Thursday," Kate shared. She continued: "I said, 'Well I did wonder if it was a urine infection, but weirdly we couldn't get anything for a sample.' And they just went, 'Kidneys'." "Unfortunately, his kidneys were really badly infected, blocked.The challenge now is to save
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