Giuliana Rancic back at E! following surgery

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   >>> back now at 8:21 with the latest on juliana rensek's battle with breast cancer . the e news host made the announcement monday on the "today" show and tuesday underwent a double lumpectomy. her husband bill joins us. hey, bill. good morning.

   >> how are you?

   >> how are you and juliana doing?

   >> we are doing well and very grateful to the "today" show family and all the viewers who have been sending e-mails and tweets and letters of support. it's definitely helped juliana get through this and certainly she expresses her gratitude to everyone out there for showing their support.

   >> we're looking at some photographs of the two of you and another family member just before the double lumpectomy. what do you want to tell us about what she had to go through?

   >> well, it was kind of a long day believe it or not. there are many steps in the process when you go through this because it was on both breasts. the morning started out with a long, two-hour mri where they had to put a guide wire in so the surgeon knew exactly what area to remove. then from the mri went to a mammogram where they did the other breast and put a guide wire in there and from there we went into the surgery and the surgery lasted about two hours. she's a trooper and pulled through it and was kind of relieved to get it over with and get the cancer out and she's doing well at home recovering and i'm adding a nurse to my resume now. she's having a lot of fun with that.

   >> i bet she is. i'm sure you're very busy tending to her. she described you as her rock. but it's really hard to watch someone you love go through cancer. and there is a toll on you even though you're the one trying to take care of the person who's suffering. the emotions must be pretty tough here for you.

   >> well, you know, juliana has had a tough year and a half. i just, between the ibf attempts and now with this. for me i wish i could carry some of the load, take some of the pain away and watching the ivs go in her arm and getting, watching her being wheeled into that operating room was heart breaking for me. so i'm just doing everything i can to support her and make sure she's comfortable and try to make her laugh as often as possible.

   >> the doctors, what are they saying was the prognosis? you did catch it early.

   >> yeah. we're viewing this as a gift. it was caught accidently, very, very early. and we're going back tomorrow to the doctor to make sure that the lymph nodes , they had to remove a couple lymph nodes and we hope we get a good report tomorrow, god willing , and then it's radiation and then we kick off 2012 with a new outlook on life and we're ready to take on the world. she's excited. she's going to go back to work next week, god willing , and she's really viewing life a little bit differently. it's funny when you go through a situation like this it kind of turns the volume down on the things that aren't really that important.

   >> that's absolutely right. i know that you mentioned earlier the response online on twitter, so many people wishing her well and i know that you're going to have a lot to say to this baby that you're going to have eventually.

   >> well, indeed. that baby not only will have saved juliana 's life but the amount of tweets we've been getting from women and men saying they've scheduled their first mammogram or their wife has scheduled her first mammogram is really remarkable. that was the goal of this.

   >> all right. bill, thank you so much. our best wishes.

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