'GMA' anchor Robin Roberts shares a photo of her sister Sally.(Photo: Robin Roberts, Twitter)
Robin Roberts, in a Facebook note titled Home Sweet Home: Part II, has just finished up a week-long hospital stay.
The Good Morning America anchor never mentioned she was in the hospital until she shared that she "returned home Friday night."
She
explains, "A latent virus, many of us have, was not responding to
medication and was pulling down my numbers. Our immune systems usually
take care of a virus like this ... but mine is only 59 days old.
Physically I felt fine but being back in the hospital took an emotional
toll on me."
Roberts says that the staff helped lift her spirits
and assured her that "the majority" of bone marrow transplant patients
have to be re-admitted for various reasons.
"I decided to look at
my brief stay as a 'tuneup' ... and then I would be back on the road to
recovery. By the grace of God, I am!"
Now, she says the virus is "under control and my numbers are going back up."
Her
donor, sister Sally-Ann, flew to New York from New Orleans to be with
Roberts. The two taped an interview for New Orleans station, WWL-TV.
Roberts says GMA will show a portion of it on Tuesday.
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