Robin Roberts announces return to ‘GMA’
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This 2006 photo released by ABC shows "Good Morning America" co-host Robin Roberts, right, with her mother Lucimarian Roberts on the set in New York. Jeffrey W. Schneider, senior vice president of ABC News, said 88-year-old Lucimarian Roberts died Thursday, Aug. 30, 2012. ABC's Facebook page said Robins traveled "home to Mississippi just in time to see her." The death came on the same day Roberts said goodbye to her co-workers and audience before starting medical leave for a bone marrow transplant. Her departure had been set for Friday. But in a last-minute change of plans she told her viewers she was leaving a day early to visit her ailing mother. WABC-TV said Lucimarian Roberts was the first African-American to head Mississippi's board of education. She also collaborated with her daughter on a book titled, "My Story, My Song: Mother-Daughter Reflections on Life and Faith." (AP Photo/ABC, Donna Svennevik)
NEW YORK » Robin Roberts says her road to recovery will bring her back to the "Good Morning America" anchor desk soon.
Appearing from her home on "Good Morning America" `today, Roberts wore a broad smile as she announced that her most recent bone marrow test showed no sign of the life-threatening ailment that has kept her off the air for months.
This means she can begin the process of returning to the anchor chair.
She calls it "coming home" and says she hopes to be back on the air "in weeks, not months."
Roberts got a bone marrow transplant in September.
In June, she disclosed to viewers that she had MDS, a blood and bone marrow disease.
