Broadway star Nick Cordero’s wife Amanda Kloots has revealed that he has finally recovered from his medically induced coma.
Kloots shared a video on Instagram stories this Tuesday in which she told fans that her 41-year-old husband was conscious after being put to sleep for above a month due to the complications caused by the coronavirus.
“Nick, Dada, is awake! Yay!” Kloots said in her video which featured her 11-month-old son Elvis Eduardo. “Dada is awake.”
“I asked the doctor today: ‘Can we say he is awake?’ He is awake,’” she said, adding that Cordero’s recovery has just started and he has a long way to go.
“It’s just that Nick is so weak right now that even opening his eyes and closing his eyes takes all his energy. Dada did it!”
Kloots also posted a written message on her Instagram story regarding Cordero’s waking up.
It read: “Nick is awake! He is extremely weak, so weak that he can’t close his mouth.
“But he is following commands which means his mental status is coming back this is a long road, a very long road. We are on our way to #coderocky.”
Coderocky is the unofficial term hospital staff members use for the full recovery of coronavirus patients.
Kloots also posted an Instagram Live video on Tuesday explaining that Cordero’s physiotherapy “will really help with getting him stronger” after his right leg had to be amputated because of complications caused by COIVD-19.
“But he is a true superhero. I mean, we have just come such a far, far away,” Kloots said of her husband. “He’s in there and everything is looking good.”
She added: “It’s like you don’t want to get yourself too excited because it’s been such a road. But that’s why I say it’s a very long road still.
“We are still in a very long road, but we are the beginnings of recovery. We are the beginnings of him waking up and the beginning of him following even more commands and being able to do more things.”
“What a miracle!” she continued. “Our guy is coming back. He is coming back. It’s just so great. It’s a great day.”
Talking of Cordero’s recovery, Kloots said that he started responding to stimuli on Mother’s Day when she talked to him over a FaceTime call.
“I asked him to look up, and he did, and I asked him to look down, and he did,” she said in a video posted to her Instagram story on Sunday.
“So that was a fantastic Mother’s Day gift to start my day off with.”
Two days before Mother’s Day, Kloots posted a video on her Instagram story, telling the details of Cordero’s health complications including “an infection that caused his heart to stop.”
Speaking about the details of Cordero’s case, Kloots said he “went on ECMO, needed surgery to removal an ECMO cannula that was restricting blood flow to his leg, a faciatomy to relieve pressure on the leg, an amputation of his right leg, an MRI to further investigate brain damage, several bronchial sweeps to clear out his lungs, a septis infection causing septic shock, a fungus in his lungs, holes in his lungs, a tracheostomy, blood clots, low blood count and platelet levels, and a temporary pacemaker to assist his heart.
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Nick Cordero, who got a nomination for a Tony for his performance in Bullets Over Broadway, was shifted to Los Angeles’ Cedars-Sinai Medical Center at the end of March.
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