Kate Garraway had coronary heart assault scare as she was about to current Good Morning Britain
In her new e book, The Strength of Love: Embracing an Uncertain Future with Resilience and Optimism, the mother-of-two particulars the stress of her ongoing caring for husband Derek Draper, 56, who has suffered critical well being issues ever since contracting Covid in 2020.
In it, she shares the wrestle of balancing her high-profile TV profession with cash considerations and making an attempt to carry issues collectively for her and Draper’s two kids: Darcey, 17, and Billy, 14.
But she additionally reveals her personal critical well being scare: the ITV breakfast present presenter stated that final November she awakened at 2am together with her arm motionless and extreme chest pains, and ended up vomiting on her bed room flooring.
Garraway has been caring for Draper (pictured) at their dwelling for the previous two years
/ ITVHowever, she nonetheless allowed herself to be pushed to the Good Morning Britain studio and ready to go on air as traditional regardless of her worsening signs.
It took a cellphone name from the present’s Dr Hilary Jones to get her to move straight to hospital.
She informed The Sunday Times that she pushed again and stated: “I’ll never get back in time to present the show,” to which her editor replied: “You’re not going to do the show.”
She collapsed within the A&E division, the place she instantly underwent an ECG and exams that exposed coronary heart attack-related proteins in her blood.
A heart specialist knowledgeable her that she wasn’t at present experiencing a coronary heart assault however that there was a particular subject.
When she returned 12 hours later, she was deemed not “strong enough” to have a stressor check to seek out out extra.
The scare adopted two and a half years of stress and anxiousness for Garraway and her household.
Garraway suffered the near-heart assault simply earlier than she was set to come back on air
/ ITVBoth she and her husband contracted Covid-19 within the early levels of the pandemic, however whereas her expertise was gentle, Draper’s situation was so extreme he was hospitalised for a yr, positioned in a medically-induced coma and is now in a wheelchair.
The virus has led to mind irritation, kidney failure and vital injury to his liver and pancreas, in addition to a number of cases of his coronary heart stopping.
The Strength of Love: Embracing an Uncertain Future with Resilience and Optimism by Kate Garraway is out on Thursday.