“My youngest, Hope, was in the ICU for. “I’m so grateful she’s home. She is back home. I was waiting for that day to come. And we are watching her closely. I’m just so happy.”
“I’m grateful for the doctors at Weill Cornell who were amazing and the nurses," Hoda continued."And I’m grateful to my family, and I’m grateful to friends like you who were there every single day. So, I want to say thank you for that. I love you.”, Hoda once again gave praise to the caretakers who tended to her daughter during her illness.
“This nurse walked in and — I still remember — put her hand on my back ... didn’t even say anything. Just sat there for a minute,” Hoda said. “A lot of what do isn’t just about giving the IV and the needles and the stuff and the tests and all those things. It’s more than that.” “I remember I was there, and I asked for a bath for . I wanted to give her a bath, and they could only sponge her, and I said, ‘Please, I’m begging you,’” Hoda said at the time. “‘I just want a bath here for my child,’ and I remember we got this little plastic thing, and we put it in the shower and put Hope in it. And I remembered like that tiny thing, but it was everything at that time.”