Early this year GMA’s anchor Robin Roberts was diagnosed with MDS, a blood and bone marrow disease. Today she announced she will be taking time out to get receive bone marrow transplant but will be returning soon. For more info see below.
Robin Roberts has said goodbye to ABC’s “Good Morning America,” but only for a while.
The “GMA” anchor made her final appearance Thursday before going on medical leave for a bone marrow transplant.
Roberts’ departure was first planned for Friday, but she told viewers she chose to exit a day early to visit her ailing mother in Mississippi.
In June, she first disclosed that she has MDS, a blood and bone marrow disease. She will be hospitalized next week to prepare for the transplant. The donor will be her older sister, Sally-Ann Roberts, who was on hand for Thursday’s emotional send-off.
There’s no timetable for when Roberts will be back at “GMA,” but she promised she’ll return “as soon as I can.”
