Roker on the mend after knee surgery

“Today” fixture Al Roker is taking more time off from the NBC morning show after his most recent knee surgery.

Appearing virtually on Monday’s episode of “Today,” the veteran meteorologist told his co-hosts Hoda

Kotb and Savannah

Guthrie that he was home from the hospital after undergoing knee replacement surgery on Tuesday.

“It’s Monday and I’m home from the hospital. It’s just another day!” Roker said during the remote appearance from his home.

The 68-year-old broadcaster is up and about but said that his knee is still feeling “stiff.” He explained that his recent surgery was more complicated because

it is considered “a revision.”

“It was a replacement of a replacement, so they had to take stuff out, put new stuff in, so it was a bit of a bear,” Roker said.

Roker first had knee replacement surgery in April 2022. The second procedure was delayed because of his hospitalization late last year for blood clots in his leg and lungs. The weatherman was absent from “Today” for about

two months, returning in January when he provided viewers with some exhaustive medical history.

“Look, I had two complicating things,” he said at the time. “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.”

Roker’s medical team at New York-Presbyterian/ Weill Cornell Medical Center discovered through surgery that he had two bleeding ulcers, too. His colon was re-sectioned, his gallbladder was removed, and he had an operation on his small intestine, he said.

“I went into (the hospital) for one operation, I got four free,” he joked. “So I got that going for me.”