Nick Cordero’s wife Amanda Kloots is elated as she reveals he is off the ventilator and has a trach

Nick Cordero has been in the hospital for a month, fighting for his life as he struggles with the coronavirus. 

On Friday, the same day he marked one month in the hospital, his wife also revealed he successfully had a tracheostomy, that will go on to help ween him from mechanical ventilation.

Amanda Kloots was elated to share the update as she took to her Instagram stories to share news with fans and supporters. 

‘He is on the trach,’ she shouted with a big smile on her face. ‘They did it! And he’s okay and he’s free of the ventilator, thank God.’

Adding this was a step they had hoped to make for the Broadway star, for weeks. Saying: ‘We have been trying to do this for Nick for so many weeks now, and it just kept getting stalled and pushed back because of his health.’ 

‘And now, he was finally healthy enough today to get the trach and the ventilator is out,’ she said. ‘His face is clear of all of those tubes.’

The tracheostomy procedure, or trach, cuts a hole in his neck at his trachea, to change the location of tubes for ventilation from his nose and mouth directly to his airway. 

‘This is just amazing news guys because we really needed this to happen to get him off that ventilator, this is a lot more comfortable for Nick,’ Amanda said as she spoke to the camera. 

Adding: ‘I think he’ll be feeling better, even subconsciously feeling better. I think this is a great sign for some good recovery days ahead and for him to be able to wake up and have that pressure relieved from his throat. Trach is in, woohoo.’ 

The news came after Amanda took the couple’s son Elvis to the beach that she said was ‘much needed.’ 

Earlier in the day, Amanda wrote: ‘It’s May 1. Nick was induced and put on a ventilator in the ICU on April 1. New month, same goal! YOU CAN DO IT BABY! Also, our neighbors are awesome. #wakeupnick.’ 

It came as he was set to undergo a tracheostomy, to put a breathing tube directly into his throat and remove him from the ventilator. 

The surgery was planned for Friday afternoon, with Amanda asking followers to pray for Nick and explaining: ‘that will hopefully make everything more comfortable for him and get all of that stuff off of his face.’

The fitness instructor also shared a photograph of a banner posted by the couple’s neighbors in Laurel Canyon, Los Angeles, which read ‘Wake Up Nick’.

The hashtag is one popularized by Amanda, with multiple friends and fans posting to social media as they dance daily in honor of the Broadway star, who remains in intensive care.

Those getting involved include his former castmates from Rock Of Ages, who came together to perform in his honor on Thursday.

Wrote Amanda: ‘Rock of Ages cast singing for Nick. Nick’s incredible cast just sent me this video on a day where I really needed to hear ‘Don’t stop believing!’ Thank you so much Rock Of Ages cast for this awesome song and tribute to Nick. He loves you guys so much!’

Her post comes after Amanda revealed on Thursday that Nick’s condition has taken a turn for the worse as he continues to battle COVID-19. 

Talking on Instagram Stories, Amanda said her 41-year-old husband has ‘holes in his lungs’ to the point that doctors said he ‘looks like’s been a smoker for 50 years’.

The dire assessment comes just after Amanda spoke to Gayle King about the last time she saw Nick in person: when she dropped him off at the hospital for what they both believed would be a brief examination.

‘I didn’t even give him a kiss or a hug,’ Amanda told the CBS This Morning host on Thursday.

 

 ‘We drove to the emergency room and we dropped him off, and this is one of the saddest parts, we thought I would see him in two hours,’ said Kloots of the day in late March.

She said she planned to take the couple’s ten-month-old son Elvis for a walk before returning to pick up her husband.

However after an hour of waiting, Nick rang and told her, ‘Amanda, they have admitted me, I’m now in a bed with oxygen.’

‘I was getting a little worried at this point,’ the 38-year-old admitted, adding, ‘Nick has never been hospitalized. He has no pre-existing conditions.’

‘The only time I have ever been in a hospital was to give birth to my son so we’re kind of new to the hospital,’ continued the mother-of-one.

‘So anytime I hear you’re admitted, I get a little nervous.’ 

In another video, posted by Amanda on Wednesday, she spoke about her ‘daily visit’ to Nick’s hospital – which must take place ‘from afar’ due to social distancing measures.

‘I just finished my daily visit to go stand outside [Cedars Sinai Hospital] and play Nick’s song, and sing and pray and talk to him from afar.’ 

In her Thursday update, Kloots said that ‘due to COVID, Nick’s lungs are severely damaged’.

‘There are holes in his lungs where obviously you don’t want holes to be.’ 

‘This was found because his oxygen count went down,’ explained Amanda.

Previously, Amanda revealed that Nick’s blood pressure dropped after the actor got an infection in his lungs that ‘went into his blood’, meaning he ‘went into a little bit of septic shock’.

Septic shock is a severe and potentially fatal condition that occurs when sepsis leads to life-threatening low blood pressure – for which Nick is now on blood pressure medication.

Amanda said Nick’s doctors ‘went in and completely cleaned out his lungs’.

As well as the blood pressure medication, the Bullets Over Broadway star is on ‘really strong’ antibiotics.

‘This kinda came out of nowhere,’ said the mother-of-one, adding that her husband ‘is throwing us for some loops that’s for sure’.

 Amanda also revealed Nick had been a part of the Remdesivir clinical trial in her Instagram Stories. 

Remdesivir is an antiviral medication originally developed to treat the Ebola virus, which is reportedly showing ‘some promise’ in treating COVID-19, according to USA Today.

Over a video of a news report discussing the drug, Amanda wrote, ‘Remdesivir clinical trail. Nick was a part of this trial. We will never know if he got the drug or was in the placebo group.’ 

Medics initially believed the Bullets Over Broadway star had been dealing with pneumonia, Kloots said in an April 1 post.

The performer tested negative for coronavirus, then tested positive in a later test.

He was placed in a medically-induced coma and put on a ventilator, and later had to be put on an extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) machine, which saved his life – but also caused the blood issues that led to his leg amputation. 

Because of the blood clots, doctors had to amputate Nick’s leg on April 18.