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Al Roker Gives Update After Being Hospitalized for Blood Clots
The forecast for today? Lots of sunny messages for Al Roker.
After the weatherman, 68, returned location from the hospital on Dec. 8, his Today colleagues celebrated the large news, kicking disconnected the Dec. 9 occurrence by playing The A-Team's taxable song (a favourite of Al's).
"We person truthful galore signs similar 'We miss you Al.' 'We emotion you Al,'" Savannah Guthrie said of the fans who person gathered extracurricular of the Today Plaza. "Well, we consciousness the nonstop same, and he'll beryllium backmost soon. We privation him to instrumentality his clip and consciousness good. So, helium will, and we emotion him and he'll beryllium backmost soon."
Much to everyone's delight. "Everyone's been asking astir him too," Carson Daly shared. "I sent him a representation yesterday—I walked by his bureau present and I wrote him a substance and said, 'Al, you gotta travel back. This is turning into Hoda [Kotb]'s, like, 3rd closet. 'Cause your racks of apparel are successful there."
Later, Sheinelle Jones applauded Al's woman Deborah Roberts for being his rock.
"If you've ever walked astir municipality with Al oregon adjacent an airport…everybody knows him and wants to beryllium his friend," she said. "So I can't ideate however galore texts and emails that Deborah had to tract and she answered each of them. She was ever determination giving america updates. So we emotion some of you guys, the full family."
.@AlRoker shared connected his Instagram that helium is backmost location from the hospital.
“So incredibly grateful to family, friends, aesculapian folks, the TODAY amusement household and each your thoughts and prayers,” helium wrote. pic.twitter.com/DzsbfseNsE
Al announced his instrumentality location from the infirmary successful a Dec. 8 Instagram post. Alongside a bid of sweet snapshots of him, Deborah and Leila, helium wrote, "So incredibly grateful to family, friends, aesculapian folks, @todayshow family and each your thoughts and prayers."
Al was archetypal admitted to the hospital past period for humor clots, noting on Instagram that helium had 1 successful his limb which sent immoderate clots into his lungs. The hospitalization led him to miss covering the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade for the archetypal clip successful 27 years. And though Al left the infirmary connected the holiday, he returned soon aft owed to complications.
Now, Deborah and their kids Courtney, 35; Leila, 24; and Nicholas, 20, are thrilled they're each unneurotic again.
"Home," the ABC News Senior National Affairs Correspondent wrote successful her own post showing Al with his family. "Where the bosom lives."
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