{"id":179570,"date":"2023-01-07T06:18:11","date_gmt":"2023-01-07T06:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/al-roker-returns-to-today-after-serious-health-scare-deadline\/"},"modified":"2023-01-07T06:18:11","modified_gmt":"2023-01-07T06:18:11","slug":"al-roker-returns-to-today-after-serious-health-scare-deadline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/al-roker-returns-to-today-after-serious-health-scare-deadline\/","title":{"rendered":"Al Roker Returns To ‘Today’ After Serious Health Scare \u2013 Deadline"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\ttoday<\/em> weather anchor Al Roker made an emotional return to the morning show Friday, telling his tearful co-hosts, \u201cMy heart is just bursting. I’m just so thrilled to see all of you and all of the crew. Right now I’m just running on adrenaline.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\tRoker was first hospitalized in November for blood clots in his lungs and leg. He was released on Thanksgiving day, but returned a short time later due to complications. He was released again on Dec. 8, but has been absent from today<\/em> \u2013 as well as the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade and the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree Lighting \u2013 since falling ill.<\/p>\n

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\tRoker was welcomed today at the top of the show, with co-anchors Hoda Kotb and Savannah Guthrie welcoming him back to the studio. \u201cI have missed you guys so very much,\u201d Roker told them. \u201cYou are my second family,\u201d <\/p>\n

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\tRoker and his wife, the ABC News correspondent Deborah Roberts, later joined Kotb, Guthrie, Craig Melvin and Carson Daly to discuss his health scare, which Roberts said was much more serious than the public might have known.<\/p>\n

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\t\u201cHe is a living, breathing miracle,\u201d Roberts said, also saying that her husband was a \u201cmedical mystery\u201d for a couple weeks at the start of his illness. \u201cAl went through a lot of tests, a lot of scopes, and there was just so much that had to be done, and a surgery if you don’t mind me saying, a major, major surgery, and we were just on pins and needles every day.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\t\u201cI’m not overstating it,\u201d she said. \u201cAl was a very, very, very sick man.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\tRoker explained that, after falling ill with Covid he developed the blood clots. \u201cI had two complicating things,\u201d he told his colleagues. \u201cI had blood clots that they think came up after I had Covid in September, and then I had this internal bleeding going on. I lost half my blood, and they were trying to figure out where it was.<\/p>\n

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\t\u201cFinally,\u201d he continued, \u201cthey went in, did the surgery, and it ended up that I had two bleeding ulcers. They had to resection the colon and take out my gallbladder. I went in for one operation, and I got four free.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\tWatch Roker’s panel discussion above, and his top-of-show return below.<\/p>\n

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