When Hayley Erbert woke up from an emergency surgery that involved removing part of her skull, she found her husband, Derek Hough , sitting at the foot of the hospital bed.
“There’s so many people thinking about you,” he told her. “There’s so many people sending love to you.”
In that moment, Erbert said she didn’t even need to hear those words to know they were true.
“I remember just looking at him and just saying, ‘You didn’t even have to tell me that. I can feel it. Like I genuinely felt that through my body,” Erbert said with emotion in a new video shared on Instagram that has more than half a million likes. “I felt it in my heart, I felt it in my soul. So thank you all so much for all of your messages, your love, your energy, your light, your prayers. Thank you guys for all of it, ‘cause it means so much to me, and to us as a family.”
The video comes roughly two months after Erbert “ became disoriented ” and was rushed to the hospital, where she received a cranial hematoma diagnosis and had an emergency surgery, the Deseret News previously reported. At the time, the “Dancing With the Stars” power couple, who married last August, were on a dance tour that was ultimately postponed .