Kate Garraway has found Halloween tough this year amid her husband's coronavirus battle.
Kate Garraway
The 'Good Morning Britain' presenter admits she has found it difficult marking the spooky holiday this year as her spouse Derek Draper recovers in hospital after a lengthy battle with the devastating virus.
Taking to Instagram, she wrote: "Tough day as Derek loves #halloween - but the kids have encouraged me to get some of his favourite spooky kit out to celebrate him and feel better for it. Happy #halloween everyone. (sic)"
Meanwhile, the 53-year-old television presenter recently admitted she is desperately trying to "hold on" to Derek.
She said: "We miss Derek every single day, but now I definitely feel like he looks at me, and he knows me. I have to believe that, it's what keeps me going. I say to him all the time, 'I know you're in there, Derek ... and I'm going to get you out'.
"I feel like I'm hanging over a cliff edge, holding on to him, saying, ‘Don't let go, don't let go — I'm going to get you out of this.' I sometimes think he's looking back at me and in his Derek way thinking, ‘Well, can you please crack on with it a bit faster'. But it's the doctors and nurses, and Derek himself, that are really going to bring him back. They are the heroes in this."
Derek is off a ventilator now but after being in hospital since March, he is Britain's longest-suffering Covid inpatient. He is currently in a form of coma called a PDOC (Prolonged Disorder of Consciousness) but he spoke for the first time recently.
Kate said: "The emotionally challenging thing is that we're waiting now to see what happens next; somehow it's even more agonising now there's been this breakthrough. We have greater hope now, but also greater fear of him slipping back.
"There's no precedent to this virus. Even now no one fully understands it and its long-term effects. There is no idea of timescale or any data as to how much he can recover or how long it will take."
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