Hoda Kotb.
Hoda Kotbis looking back on her difficult time in the hospital with her 3-year-old daughter.
While kicking off National Nurses Week on Monday’s episode ofToday, Kotb andJenna Bush Hagerreflected on their experiences with nurses while at the hospital, including Kotb’s time with daughter Hope in the ICU.
Kotb — who is also mom to daughterHaley Joy, 6 — had taken a few weeks off fromTodayin February while Hope was in the hospital.
“And this nurse walked in, put her hand on my back, didn’t even say anything, just sat there for a minute. I was like, ‘Oh my God.’ I could feel myself, like, right at the time,” she continued, while Bush Hager chimed in that the nurse was “like an angel.”
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Hoda Kotb with her kids.Hoda Kotb Instagram
“They knew at that moment,” Kotb continued of the nurse who comforted her. “Because a lot of what they do isn’t about giving the IV and the needles and the stuff and the tests and all those things. It’s more than that. It’s everything that they do.”
“I remember I was there, and I asked for a bath,” Kotb shared. “I wanted to give her a bath and they could only sponge her and I said, ‘Please, I’m begging you, I just want a bath for my child.’ And I remember they got this little plastic thing, and they put it in the shower and put Hope in it and I remembered, like, that tiny thing, but it was everything at the time. It was beautiful.”
Though Kotb has not provided further information about her daughter’s diagnosis, she did explain on a previous episode ofToday with Hoda and Jennathat the experience was “really scary.”
“She’svibrant and brilliant,” the mother of two said of Hope, adding that she’s “over the moon” to have her little one home.
source: people.com
