Al Roker reveals that he "almost died" during the recent health crisis
Today's host says he has the impression of having ruined a vacation for his family.
Today host Al Roker He spoke of the severity of a medical emergency he knew last year. In November 2022, the personality of television was hospitalized and underwent surgery linked to blood clots and internal bleeding. Shortly after, in December, he was again hospitalized due to new complications. Now Roker shares more on his ordeal, especially that he was almost dead, that his family initially chose to keep him secret.
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In early January, Roker returned to Today show and him and his wife, ABC News' Deborah Roberts ,, talked about his health emergency With his co-hosts. Initially, Roker asked for help for stomach pain, but the situation quickly turned into much more. "It was a medical mystery for a few weeks," said Roberts.
Roker explained: "I had two complicated things. I had blood clots which, according to them was. And finally they entered and did the operation."
Doctors discovered that he had two bleeding ulcers. Roker has also made her colon intergeated, his gallbladder withdrew and an operation on his duodenum. "I went for an operation, I got four free," he joked.
Now in a new interview with the podcast Your mom's kitchen ( via People ), Roker has opened more on his recent health crisis. AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB
"It is not a secret for anyone that I had a serious medical problem, and to be completely honest, I am almost dead," said the 69 -year -old man. He added that he "did not know it at the time", because his family did not share the full extent of what happened so that he could focus on his recovery.
He continued: "I missed Thanksgiving and I almost missed Christmas. And I forgot how important these moments of touchstone are."
The meteorologist explained that he felt a certain guilt at the time, because of his first hospitalization during the November holidays. "I felt, in a sense, bad because I ruined Thanksgiving for the family and I was not going to let it happen for Christmas," he said, adding that wanting to be at home with his Family at Christmas helped him recover. "It was important for me and gave me something to put pressure on it. And I did the Christmas dinner."
Roker also shared that Roberts knew he was going to go well when he woke up being under anesthesia and he immediately started talking about a recipe that he wanted to cook for Christmas. "And she said," Ok, I think he's going to happen "", he recalls. During their Today Show the appearance, Roberts said that her husband had said to her: "I'm going to make a turkey at Spatchcock."
It was not the first serious medical problem or surgery that Roker was confronted. He has has undergone knee and hip replacement surgeries and in 2020 was diagnosed prostate cancer . He quickly undergone surgery that managed to remove cancer.
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