Al Rokermade a virtual appearance on theTodayshow Monday morning, to update viewers on the status of his recoveryafter undergoing knee surgery.
The longtime weatherman — who is taking time off from the NBC morning show after going under the knife on May 9 — called in to catch up withSavannah Guthrie,Hoda Kotb,Craig MelvinandDylan Dreyer.
“It’s Monday, I’m home from the hospital,” he joked. “Just another day!”
Asked how his recovery was going, Roker, 68, told his friends and colleagues that his knee was still feeling “stiff.”
“This one is a little more complicated because it’s what they call a revision; it was a replacement of a replacement, so they had to take stuff out, put stuff in, so it was a bit of a bear,” Roker said. “So we’ve just been kind of hanging out. Chilling out, not doing anything — which I know, a lot of people find hard to believe, but in fact, that is the case.”
“I was being wildly optimistic that we were going to go to one of our [favorite restaurants],Daniel, for Mother’s Day, which is kind of our tradition. But that was not realistic, so we ordered in some quiche and some stuff and just had a nice meal in the backyard here,” Roker explained. “Which was nice, because it was a gorgeous day yesterday.”
Al Roker.Nathan Congleton/TODAY
As for a return toToday, Roker said he still has some work to do, including “three days a week of physical rehab that’ll go on for a few months.”
Elsewhere onTodayMonday, Roker thanked his “great “doctor, Dr. David Mayman, and “all the nurses and staff at Hospital for Special Surgery” who “were all terrific.”
This is Roker’s second knee replacement surgery. The first was in April 2022, while the second had to be delayed when Roker was hospitalized due toblood clots in his leg and lungs.
He was out of work for two months following the health scare, before returning toTodayin early January. “Look, I had two complicating things,” Roker saidthen. “I had blood clots, which they think came up after I had COVID in September. And then I had this internal bleeding going on, I lost half my blood. They were trying to figure out where it was.”
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“I went into for one operation, I got four free,” joked Roker. “So I got that going for me.”
source: people.com
