Kate Garraway shares card husband Derek Draper wrote her before 8-week coronavirus coma
Good Morning Britain host said she feels like she has ‘fallen down a rabbit hole’
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Your support makes all the difference.Good Morning Britain host Kate Garraway has described a card she was given by her husband Derek Draper before he went into an eight-week coma while being treated for coronavirus.
Draper was admitted to hospital in March with symptoms of Covid-19. He has now been in an intensive care unit for 10 weeks.
Garraway said when the hospital asked her to drop off a few of Draper’s things, she found a card from him in a suitcase that he had given her shortly before lockdown.
“I opened it up and there was a card he’d written for me, which I’d read at the time,” she told The Sun. “It says how much he loves me, how proud of me he is, and that he was feeling so good about us. It was just so romantic and it feels so odd reading it now he’s in this state.
“You know that feeling, when you’re driving along and someone pulls out in front of you and your heart lurches, so you drive really cautiously for the next five minutes and then calm down? Well, it’s like you’re constantly in that heart lurch stage, without the calming down bit.”
She later added: “I feel like I’ve fallen down a rabbit hole – and never quite hit the bottom, thank God, because I think the bottom would probably be finding out he’d died.”
Garraway recently explained that she had been told by doctors to prepare for husband to be in a coma “forever”.
“We may lose him even if we don’t lose him,” she said.
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