{"id":1794065,"date":"2023-01-03T15:21:09","date_gmt":"2023-01-03T20:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1794065"},"modified":"2023-01-03T15:21:11","modified_gmt":"2023-01-03T20:21:11","slug":"al-roker-finally-returning-to-today-after-multiple-hospitalizations-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/al-roker-finally-returning-to-today-after-multiple-hospitalizations-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Al Roker Finally Returning To \u2018Today\u2019 After Multiple Hospitalizations"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fal-roker-finally-returning-to-today-after-multiple-hospitalizations-2%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1794065&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Longtime \u201cToday\u201d show host Al Roker will finally return to the set of the NBC morning show on Friday after multiple hospitalizations have kept him off the air since mid-November.<\/p>\n<p>Roker\u2019s co-host Savannah Guthrie\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.today.com\/health\/al-roker-returning-today-show-details-rcna63953\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced<\/a>\u00a0on Tuesday that the 68-year-old weather personality is \u201ccoming back to the show\u201d after initially being hospitalized before Thanksgiving when a blood clot in his leg \u201csent some clots into\u201d his lungs, as previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/longtime-today-show-host-al-roker-in-the-hospital-explains-absence-from-show\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEveryone\u2019s like, \u2018When? When?&#8217;\u201d co-host Hoda Kotb replied, as she shared Roker would be back on set this Friday, January 6.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is his place,\u201d she added. \u201cHe\u2019ll be in his seat, right where he belongs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot the same without Al,\u201d Guthrie added. \u201cOur sunshine will be coming back Friday morning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Roker finally gave an update after his second hospitalization in December, calling it a \u201ctough slog,\u201d and thanked fans for all their love and support.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cListen, it\u2019s been a tough slog,\u201d Roker shared. \u201cI\u2019m not going to deny this. It\u2019s been the hardest one yet, and you know I\u2019ve had my share of surgeries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt gives you [a] profound sense of gratitude for this outpouring of prayers and thanks,\u201d he added. \u201cI\u2019m a very fortunate person.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/today-show-host-al-roker-shares-update-with-fans-after-being-hospitalized-for-major-blood-clots\">weather personality<\/a>\u00a0also admitted that four weeks in the hospital was hard on his body and said he wasn\u2019t ready to return to the set yet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou lose a certain amount of muscle mass for every week you\u2019re in the hospital, and I was in the hospital for four weeks,\u201d Roker explained. \u201cIt\u2019s just a certain amount of weakness. I\u2019m doing physical therapy every day, occupational therapy. I\u2019ve got to just get my strength back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Thanksgiving, Roker posted photos on Instagram celebrating that he was out of the hospital after a blood clot in his leg \u201csent some clots into\u201d his lungs.<\/p>\n<p>However, he was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/today-show-host-al-roker-rushed-back-to-hospital-after-being-released-in-time-for-thanksgiving\">rushed<\/a> back to the hospital via ambulance on November 25 after falling ill again. Days later, the \u201cToday\u201d show confirmed that Roker was back in the hospital \u201cdue to some complications,\u201d as they sent well wishes to their co-host.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Longtime \u201cToday\u201d show host Al Roker will finally return to the set of the NBC morning show on Friday after multiple hospitalizations have kept him off the air since mid-November. Roker\u2019s co-host Savannah Guthrie\u00a0announced\u00a0on Tuesday that the 68-year-old weather personality is \u201ccoming back to the show\u201d after initially being hospitalized before Thanksgiving when a blood &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":219,"featured_media":1744111,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[6202,5321,13007,4066,10760,7363,11224,6195],"class_list":["post-1794065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-daily","tag-finally","tag-hospitalizations","tag-multiple","tag-returning","tag-roker","tag-today","tag-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1794065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/219"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1794065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1794065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1744111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1794065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1794065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1794065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}