Amanda Klootsis remembering late husbandNick Corderoone year after driving him to the hospital when he fell ill with what doctors later discovered to beCOVID-19.
On Tuesday,The Talkco-host, 39, shared a video of herself and sonElvis Eduardo, who turns 2 in June, shot last March after they had dropped the Broadway star off at Los Angeles' Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.
Cordero spent 13 weeks in the intensive care unit before hedied on July 5from COVID-19 complications at the age of 41.
Nick Cordero and Amanda Kloots.Bruce Glikas/FilmMagic
“That was the last day I saw Nick as Nick,” Kloots remembered.
“Myheart breakstoday,” she continued in the post. “I wish I could go back in time, run to him as he was walking away, grab him, kiss him and hold him in my arms. On April 1, he went on the ventilator and I never spoke to him again.”
Nick Cordero.Paul Archuleta/Getty Images
The fitness instructor ended her message with a note to others who havelost loved ones to COVID-19, writing, “To anyone, who like me, that dropped their person off at the hospital never to really ‘see’ them again, I’m thinking and praying for you today.”
“This day is just hard, there’s no other way to say it,” she added. “We’ve come far in a year with what we know about treating and preventing this virus. Do your part, continue doing your part. For Nick and every COVID patient that didn’t make it home.”
Kloots also paid tribute to Cordero on her Instagram Stories, writing alongside a photo the couple, “One year ago I drove this sweet man to the emergency room. He never came back. This virus is real. We aren’t through this yet. Please continue to do your part.”
Nick Cordero and Amanda Kloots.Amanda Kloots/instagram
Cordero wasinitially diagnosed with pneumonia, buttested positive for COVID-19after he was admitted to the hospital, Kloots previously said on her Instagram.
During his 95 days in the hospital, in which he spent 42 of them in amedically induced coma, the actor faced a series ofunpredictable complicationsthat led toseptic shockand required him to have his right legamputated.
Kloots has beenopen about her griefsince Cordero’s death. In October, shetold PEOPLEthat she’s been finding comfort within their son.
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“Thank God I have a little piece of my husband,” she said of Elvis. “Anytime I’m sad, he brightens my mood in two seconds. He looks at me with his big smile and his little teeth, and I’m instantly transported into a different mood.”
The mother of one added that she can alreadysee similarities between Elvis and his dad.
“He is calm and cool and gets along with everybody. I think that’s very much Nick,” she said. “We have this beautiful little boy that we created together. I love watching him grow, and I know Nick is watching him too.”
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