Al Roker revealed he lost “half [his] blood” during his recent “life-threatening” medical crisis.
After two months offscreen recovering, the journalist, 68, was back on “Today” Friday with wife Deborah Roberts detailing his “frightening” journey for the first time.
“I lost half my blood. They were trying to figure out where it was,” he recalled of his November 2022 hospitalization for blood clot complications and internal bleeding, joking that he “went in for one operation [and] got four free.”
After discovering he had two bleeding ulcers, Roker’s medical team resectioned his colon, removed his gallbladder and redid his duodenum in his small intensine.
Roberts, 62, called her husband a “living, breathing miracle.”
She added, “I have to say — I’m not overstating it, I don’t think — Al was a very, very sick man. And I think most people did not know that.”
The “Lifetime Live” host was “on pins and needles” as his “medical mystery” played out.