Studio 10 star Kerri-Anne Kennerley has spoken candidly about her husband’s health issues in the past, but she has now opened up about the terror she experienced when her 97-year-old mother suffered a stroke at a family dinner earlier this year.
The 65-year-old TV personality recalled her mother Grace’s health scare, revealing the matriarch had to be rushed to hospital in an ambulance following a stroke at a dinner held to celebrate her birthday in September.
“I knew in an instant she was having a stroke,” Kerri-Anne told Woman’s Day, reports the Daily Mail. “The ambulance came quickly and we went to the hospital with Mum where she was given these new miracle drugs – which saved her life and greatly improved her chances of recovery.”
Thankfully Grace – who lives with Kerri-Anne in her family home in Sydney – has made a miraculous recovery in just three months and is completing rehab at home.”
She added: “You wouldn’t know she had a stroke, let alone a severe stroke.”
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Earlier this year, Kerri-Anne spoke exclusively to Starts at 60 about the reality of being a full-time carer for her beloved husband John, after a devastating accident left him almost completely paralysed and wheelchair-bound.
Opening up about what caring for her spouse is really like, she slammed anyone who claims looking after a paraplegic or sick relative is anything but “awful” and “daunting”.
In a deeply honest interview, the Aussie TV star shared her advice for others becoming carers for a loved one, and said while it may feel impossible at times – and leave you “panicking” – there are ways to cope and piece life back together again.
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“It’s daunting because everything is new,” she said. “You don’t know the potential problems, issues, how to do things, but after a while with experience you get into a swing and it’s the new norm.”
In May 2016, the couple faced one of their toughest challenges when then-75-year-old John suffered severe spinal injuries after falling from a balcony at a golf course. Fracturing his C3 and C4 vertebrae, the courageous man was left an incomplete quadriplegic and bound to a wheelchair for the rest of his life.