Kate Garraway has shared her plans to send her youngest child back to school part-time after coronavirus lockdown measures eased.
The Good Morning Britian presenter appeared via video link from her home to talk about her husband Derek Draper's recovery from COVID-19 after spending ten weeks in hospital being cared for by a team of doctors and nurses.
She broke down in tears as she explained that while Derek, 52, is coronavirus free, doctors do not know how he will recover from the damage caused by the deadly bug.
Kate, 53, remained positive as she discussed his recovery and how her children Darcy, 14, and Billy, 10, were coping including the decision for Billy to return to his year six classroom in accordance with the government advice on the pupils allowed to return.
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Speaking from her back garden, a tearful Kate, who continue to homeschool her daughter, said: "Yes Billy is going back to school."
Ben Shepherd, presenting from the GMB studio mentioned that it must feel different for her son considering "Derek would normally be doing the school run".
Kate said that Billy hadn't wanted to go back to school yet before his dad was better, because he did the school run whenever she was hosting the ITV daytime show, she added that his sister was ordering some "cool" t-shirts from Amazon to help Billy settle into the new routine.
Kate Garraway unsure if husband will survive damage caused from coronavirus
Kate Garraway keeping strong for her children as husband battles coronavirus
Kate added that it will take time for things to return to any kind of normality for the family but that they would all be taking things slowly.
"We're talking weeks and months for recovery, it can be up to a year," she said, "It seems unthinkable."
Kate lightheartedly chuckled as she explained: "Darcy and I are going to be intensively home tutoring! We’re going to gradually… we haven’t been able to go out we’ve been self isolating for a long time.
"Some of our neighbours gave us some bikes and we went on a bike ride the other day. We're just trying to gradually… it's about really trying to carry on with life when you don’t know it is certain."
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Kate said during her first appearance on GMB, after her husband was diagnosed with the deadly bug and has been in intensive care since 30 March battling for survival.
She said: "He is now Covid free, so he's testing negative for the Covid virus, so the fight with the virus has been won and he's still here.
"But it's reeked extraordinary damage on his body and we don't know if he can recover from that."
Kate tearfully continued: "He's still with us, he fought the most extraordinary battle, and I hate the idea of fighting a battle because it is a battle but, you know, the fact that he's still here and is holding on, I hate the idea that other people haven't fought hard enough or something, and I'm just so grateful that he's still here and I've got the option of praying and hoping when others have had that stripped away.
"He is very, very sick and as time goes on… it's a virus, it's a little bit like a computer virus, I think. Doctors manage one bit extraordinarily well and there seems to be a flicker of hope, and then other things emerge and they're fighting that. It's affected him for the top of his head to the tip of his toes."
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