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Kate Garraway has suggested that her husband Derek Draper will not return home from the hospital until next year.
The 53-year-old Good Morning Britain host is going through a difficult time as her loving husband Derek, also 53, continues to recover from Covid-19 and has not left the hospital since his admission.
The lively presenter has found comfort in tending her garden during Derek’s battle for health and has shared how she was inspired by her love for Derek to plant something special for him to see when he can be with his family in their marital home.
During an appearance on Gardeners’ World, the former I’m A Celeb fieldmate spoke about how her gardening projects are influenced by Derek’s recovery timeline, as she explained: “It was pretty sad because the radishes came. They are one of Derek’s favorites. We ate them and it still wasn’t better. “
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Kate then hinted that her husband would be coming home in the spring when he said that he has now planted several bulbs in the hope that they will bloom and that “the place will be full of color” for Derek’s return.
Fans of green fingers know that it is better to plant bulbs preferably in late September so that they appear in spring.
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Derek, with whom Kate shares children with Billy and Darcey, was hospitalized in March after contracting coronavirus.
He was later put into an induced coma that lasted 13 weeks, from which he woke up in July, but is still on a long road to recovery and remains in hospital.
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Derek’s recovery will be a slow process, as the virus has “attacked everything,” leaving him with clots in his lungs, holes in his heart, and made him diabetic, and Kate was warned by doctors that Derek might never recover from the damage caused. to your body. .
The devastating news of Derek’s condition prompted Kate to take extended leave from GMB to be with her family, before defiantly returning to the show in July with her head held high.
* Gardeners’ World, tonight, BBC Two, 9pm.
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