Kate Garraway shares concern over 'brutal honesty' amid Derek Draper health battle as fans say 'well done'
14.09.2023 - 08:37
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Kate Garraway has shared her concern as she continued to be 'brutally honest' about what her husband and their family face amid his continued health battle. The Good Morning Britain presenter has been open and honest about Derek Draper's health after he contracted coronavirus.
Former Labour lobbyist Derek was admitted to a hospital with Covid in March 2020 where he was soon placed into an induced coma. He spent just over a year in hospital and has needed round-the-clock care ever since he returned home in April 2021, with Kate previously said the virus 'wreaked havoc' on her husband's body.
While he's made some progress since coming out of his coma, he can still only say the occasional few words and is struggling with renal failure and infected wounds. Another of Derek's struggles comes from his lungs. He can't breathe in oxygen nor breathe out carbon dioxide efficiently, meaning his body is "slightly poisoned all the time".
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Kate shared in her new interview how Derek now urgently needs rehab to help him breathe properly again, and has detailed a recent scary incident. She told the Sunday Times he has developed a "weird choking" condition that's baffling doctors. "It happened again just last weekend," she said.
"For absolutely no reason he just went blue." Fortunately, two carers were on hand to get Derek breathing again as Kate and her son watched in horror. Eventually he "sort of vomited" as the relieved carers knew they'd just had a "really near miss".
The interview came ahead of the release of Kate's new book, Strength of Love, which is released on Thursday (September 14). And taking to social media the day before it was
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