Al Roker to Undergo Hip Replacement Surgery: 'I'm Slowly Replacing This Body One by One'

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Al Rokerwill have to watch hisTodaycoworkers from his couch for the next two weeks as he recovers from hip replacement surgery.

The morning show host, 65, announced Tuesday that he decided to go through with the procedure after dealing with unrelenting hip pain for the last three months.

“All of a sudden, I started feeling this twinge in my hip — and then my back was acting up,” Rokertold Today.com. “It seems like my hip went fairly quickly.”

Roker said that he will gethip resurfacing surgery— a newer type of hip replacement where surgeons trim the head of the thighbone and the damaged socket, and place a metal cap over the bone to help the bone move smoothly again — on Wednesday.

“My left hip has been deteriorating, and I decided, let me go get it taken care of,” he said.

Roker said thathis recent trip to Greenlandwith NASA tostudy climate changein glaciers added to the pain.

Roker said his sister Lisa is coincidentally also getting hip replacement surgery, and joked that “we’ve got a family plan going.”

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Roker said he expects to be back soon from the common surgery, and will document the process forToday.

source: people.com