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Al roker grateful to those who gave him blood during his past health affairs – especially Today coanchor Craig Melvin.
“I am a vivid example of having received those gifts during my health issues,” Roker, 70, said on the Today Show on Monday, July 28, after Melvin, 46, put Blood Live on the air to encourage others to follow in his footprint.
Melvin, who is take Hoda Kotb’s position on the Today The minor hours of the show in January, agreed with Roker, noting that he “came over” to Le Roker and “giving” him blood before.
“I wanted to make sure it was earmarked for you,” flirting Melvin, before Roker added, “Yeah, really, after I got rock blood, I started talking slower and started drinking more bourbon. So, bonus!”
Counting his blessings. Al Roker is grateful to be on the threshold following his recent health terror, a source is just revealing in the new edition of US Weekly. “Al’s recent hospital was very alarming. (It) counts himself so fortunate that I had fast treatment and know that he eventually was lucky to be alive,” tells us the interior of (…)
Roker made headlines for his health in November 2022 when in hospital with blood clots In his legs and lungs, forcing him to miss NBC’s attention from Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade for the first time in 27 years.
Despite a short walk home, the news anchor was rushed to hospital again in December 2022 due to internal bleeding of sores. During the emergency surgery, doctors opposed his colon and moved his gall.
“My doctor said that if I hadn’t been in the shape I had been, I would most probably won’t be here today”Says Roker People In an interview in June with his wife, Deborah RobertsNoting that the situation is “alarming beyond belief” for them. “This is the hardest thing we have ever suffered as a family and a couple.”
Apart from dealing with blood clots, roker, which has been on the Today showed for 29 years, suffered some other serious health issues including that Been diagnosed with prostate cancer in November 2020.
“It’s a kind of good-baking news of a thing,” said Roker on the Today Show at the time. “Good news is that we’re caught early. Not great news is that it’s a bit aggressive, so I’m going to be taking some time off to take care of this.”
Roker noted that he had to have surgery to remove his prostate and that Roberts, 64, was his biggest fan despite being “upset” for his diagnosis.
“Once she passed that, the reporter in her kind took over. She has been in everything ever since,” he explained, noting that he decided to go public with his diagnosis because one in seven black men are diagnosed with prostate cancer in their lives. “(I want to) let people know they have to be checked.”
After surgery to remove its prostate, lymph nodes and some surrounding tissue, Roker was considered cancer free.
