GMA's Robin Roberts Shares Medical Update With Fans

By: Caryn Robbins Sep. 18, 2012

GOOD MORNING AMERICA host Robin Roberts wrote on her personal blog that she is scheduled to undergo a bone marrow transplant this Thursday. The bone marrow she is receiving will come from her sister, Sally.

Roberts assured her fans that her spirits were high, despite her weakening condition. "The start of last week went well but the daily chemo/treatment caught up to me by the weekend," she wrote. "My body is so weak but not my mind. YOU give me the courage to keep going."

On Sunday, the news anchor shared that she held a get together for "GMA family" members. She continued, "The next morning I walked through the hospital doors, with my guardian angels -- mom & dad -- back together and blazing a trail ahead of me." The newswoman's mother, Lucimarian Tolliver Roberts, passed away last month, just as Roberts was taking her medical leave from the morning show.

In the spring, Roberts revealed that she was diagnosed with a rare blood disorder Myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) that she contracted after undergoing treatment for breast cancer. Her physician, Dr. Gail Roboz, is scheduled to appear on Thursday's Good Morning America to update viewers on her condition.

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