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Hoda Kotb Makes an Emotional Return to Today
Hoda Kotb is feeling other appreciative this National Nurses Week.
While paying tribute to healthcare workers, the Today co-anchor recalled an speech with a caregiver that "meant everything" amid her 3-year-old daughter Hope's infirmary stay earlier this year.
"It was 3 a.m., and I was conscionable sitting successful this chair," Hoda explained on Today on May 8. "This caregiver walked successful and—I inactive remember—put her manus connected my back. Didn't adjacent accidental anything. Just sat determination for a minute."
The journalist—who shares Hope and 6-year-old Haley with former fiancé Joel Schiffman—was absent from the greeting quality amusement for 2 weeks backmost successful February aft her youngest girl was admitted to the hospital. During her quiescent infinitesimal with the nurse, Hoda revealed she had a elemental petition for Hope.
"I asked for a bath," the 58-year-old remembered saying. "I wanted to springiness her a bath, and they could lone sponge her, and I said, 'Please, I'm begging you.'"
With tears successful her eyes, Hoda shared that she just wanted to beryllium capable to "bathe her child," arsenic she pleaded for a mode to execute that.
"We got this small integrative thing, and we enactment it successful the ablution and enactment Hope successful it," she continued. "And I remembered similar that tiny thing, but it was everything astatine that time."
This isn't the archetypal clip Hoda has opened up astir the interaction Hope's nurses had connected their household amid her week-long infirmary stay.
"When your kid is ill, the magnitude of gratitude you tin person for radical who helped you out," she told co-anchor Savannah Guthrie upon returning to Today in March. "So, I'm grateful for the doctors astatine Weill Cornell, who were amazing, and the nurses."
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The Today mainstay besides expressed a enactment of appreciation for her enactment strategy during this scary time.
"And I'm grateful to my household and I'm grateful to friends similar you, who were determination each azygous day," she continued. "So, I privation to accidental convey you for that. I emotion you."
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