{"id":19301,"date":"2023-05-22T16:01:38","date_gmt":"2023-05-22T16:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/22\/al-roker-enduring-slow-going-recovery-after-knee-surgery\/"},"modified":"2023-05-22T16:01:38","modified_gmt":"2023-05-22T16:01:38","slug":"al-roker-enduring-slow-going-recovery-after-knee-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/22\/al-roker-enduring-slow-going-recovery-after-knee-surgery\/","title":{"rendered":"Al Roker enduring &apos;slow going&apos; recovery after knee surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"byline\">\n<time itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2023-05-22\" datetime=\"1684771298\" pubdate=\"\">22 May 2023<\/time>\n<\/p>\n<p>Al Roker is enduring a \u201cslow going\u201d recovery from knee surgery.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"image-caption landscape\">Al Roker is enduring a \u2018slow going\u2019 recovery from knee surgery<\/p>\n<p>\nThe 68-year-old \u2018Today\u2019 weatherman\u2019s wife Deborah Roberts, 62, who is ABC News\u2019 senior national affairs correspondent, gave an update on his latest health battle after he went in for the operation on 9 May.<\/p>\n<p>\nShe told fans on Instagram Live: \u201cThank you all so much for being so concerned about him and so interested in his well-being.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cAs many of you know he had a knee re-replacement, so a knee that had been replaced many, many years ago had problems and had to be re-replaced.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cIt makes it slow going \u2013 it makes it a little tougher. It was a harder surgery, so it\u2019s a little bit harder to snap back from but he\u2019s doing pretty well, moving a little slowly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nDeborah also revealed her husband of 27 years was sitting opposite her as she spoke, but was \u201cnot interested\u201d in \u201cgetting involved today\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\nShe added: \u201cHe wants to just say thank you to everybody who has asked about him. Thank you all so much \u2013 you have all been so kind and so generous and just so caring and compassionate about my family over these last several months as we\u2019ve gone through a few things.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nDeborah also said about how her husband is keen to get back to work: \u201cAl is chomping at the bit to try to get back to work, but the doctor just wants him to take it slowly so that he can continue to heal well.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cSo on Al\u2019s behalf and our family&#8217;s behalf thank you so much and I\u2019m sure he\u2019ll be popping up soon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nScolding Al for not resting enough, she went on: \u201cSome of you may have seen him cooking. I did not like that he\u2019s been trying to do that because he needed to give himself some time and some rest and elevate his leg and ice it and all of that, so he\u2019s doing all that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cHe\u2019s trying to obey the doctor\u2019s orders so that he can get back to work and to play as soon as possible, so just wanted to give you a little update on him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nAl is set to become a grandad, and spoke in May about how his daughter Courtney, 36, is pregnant with a baby girl.<\/p>\n<p>\nHe adopted her in 1987 with his then-wife, Alice Bell, and moved on after their divorce in 1994 by marrying Deborah, with whom he has daughter Leila, 24, and 20-year-old son Nicholas.<\/p>\n<p>\nAl\u2019s health woes have included him having an emergency carpal tunnel surgical procedure in 2018 and a hip replacement the following year.<\/p>\n<p>\nIn November 2020, he shared a prostate cancer diagnosis with viewers, warning the disease \u2013 which he beat after surgery \u2013 was \u201ca little aggressive\u201d despite him catching it early.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/celebrity\/roker-enduring-slow-going-recovery-after-knee-surgery-1379169.html?f=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>22 May 2023 Al Roker is enduring a \u201cslow going\u201d recovery from knee surgery. Al Roker is enduring a \u2018slow going\u2019 recovery from knee surgery The 68-year-old \u2018Today\u2019 weatherman\u2019s wife Deborah Roberts, 62, who is ABC News\u2019 senior national affairs correspondent, gave an update on his latest health battle after he went in for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19302,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[461,1966,1965,1964,1967,1968],"class_list":{"0":"post-19301","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-make-up","8":"tag-al-roker","9":"tag-alice-bell","10":"tag-courtney-roker","11":"tag-deborah-roberts","12":"tag-leila-roker","13":"tag-nicholas-roker"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}