Kate Garraway’s husband Derek Draper finally returns home after over a year in hospital with coronavirus

Kate Garraway’s husband Derek Draper has finally been allowed to return home after spending over a year in hospital. 

Derek, 53, had been one of many worst-affected coronavirus sufferers to outlive, and is now off all machines however will nonetheless obtain round the clock care on the household’s home in North London which has been extensively tailored for his wants. 

A buddy of the Good Morning Britain host instructed The Sun: ‘Kate’s dreamt of today for thus lengthy, and might’t thank fantastic NHS workers sufficient.’

The household have been warned that Derek’s restoration might be ‘long and gruelling’, however the couple’s youngsters – Darcey, 15, and Billy, 11 – cried tears of pleasure to finally be reunited with their father. 

The supply added: ‘This past year has given Derek and Kate an absolutely unbreakable bond — she has been such a rock, and a total inspiration to everyone in Britain battling their own horror stories with the pernicious disease.’

The household had confronted a very troublesome year, usually having to go months with out with the ability to go to Derek in person resulting from lockdown restrictions which means visiting him in hospital was not allowed. 

Medics at the moment are hoping that being at home will assist him to proceed enhancing after noticing that ‘his cognition and consciousness had stalled and, if anything, was going backwards over the last couple of months.’

The supply added: ‘The hope is that by boosting his mental health — which being surrounded by his loved ones clearly will do — Derek’s bodily well being might be considerably bolstered too.’

Despite being left with a lot of harm to his physique, together with his kidneys failing, injury to his liver and pancreas, his coronary heart stopping a number of occasions and being left with holes in his coronary heart in addition to bacterial pneumonia and different infections which have left holes in his lungs, Derek has made sufficient progress for his restoration to proceed at home. 

The former lobbyist was pushed again home by way of ambulance the place it’s hoped being round his household will increase his psychological well being and assist him make additional breakthroughs in his restoration. 

Derek had been admitted to hospital on the finish of March 2020 and is confirmed to be Britain’s longest-surviving coronavirus hospital affected person.

He had been put into an induced coma to assist his physique combat the results of the illness, one thing which left him in a minimally aware state when docs tried to carry him spherical. 

In her current documentary, Finding Derek, Kate had revealed she had their home tailored to be appropriate for his wheelchair and a moist room for showering, and that she can be sleeping downstairs with him the place he may have a particular hospital mattress. 

Sources have mentioned that Derek remains to be struggling to maneuver or converse correctly, however the household are hoping that by elevating his spirits they are going to be capable to preserve him out of hospital for so long as attainable. 

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