Kate Garraway said she has been having “tough” conversations about Derek Draper’s future care.
Her husband has required special care since he was struck down with Covid in March 2020 with documentaries Caring for Derek and Finding Derek giving a personal insight into the family’s life during this time.
During Good Morning Britain, the presenter shared some of her own personal experiences while talking to guest Sharon Churchill who said she had to go private for a back operation because of the long NHS waiting list.
The breakfast TV star said she had been mulling over the future of her husband’s own treatment.
She said: “You’re hanging by a balance. I mean a dilemma of accessing private medicine or continuing to wait for NHS, I don’t know what you’ve been through but it’s a conversation I’ve been having with Derek’s treatment.
“It’s such a tough one because if you don’t have that money, then what do you do at that point? But then on the other hand, there’s no price on being out on pain and in good health, is there?”
In complete understanding, the mum-of-two said she imagined the guest was “very fearful” over the future.
“Not only are you in excruciating pain, but I would imagine very fearful over how this was going to progress,” she said.
“Because it is an operation that if you didn’t have, it could have led to more damage you might well have felt.”
It comes as Derek is due to return to Mexico where he is receiving treatment as part of a ground-breaking medical trial.
Recently, the GMB star said she found a new way to be in love with her husband.
She told You magazine: “I’m not sure that we’ve ever fallen out of love, but I think a new path is emerging, a new way to be in love.
“He puts huge trust in me. He just says, “Whatever you think”, which is wonderful, but I do get quite tearful about it. I think, “God, I hope I’m worthy of that trust”.
“But I’ve got his back. That is a relationship in itself, isn’t it? How many times do couples have doubts about each other?
“That’s a positive thing to come out of this, to have that certainty of each other. He and I are very close.”
