Oh No! Norah O'Donnell From CBS 'This Morning' Has Emergency Appendix Surgery
March 24 2019, Updated 10:07 p.m. ET
CBS 'This Morning' host Norah O'Donnell is recovering in hospital this weekend after having some emergency appendix surgery.
She wrote via Instagram Stories: "Not what we had planned for Spring Break!"
The 45-year-old underwent surgery at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston.
She posted a snap of herself in a hospital gown for friends and fans before her emergency op.
The host then documented her trip towards the operating theater with the words 'Heading to surgery.'
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O'Donnell's husband, restaurateur Geoff Tracy, took to Twitter to salute his wife who he called 'stronger than steel.'
The famous patient thanked the whole medical team at the hospital, saying that she was grateful for their care and posted a photograph with a 'thumbs-up' after her procedure.
The popular presenter has had health issues in the past.
She was diagnosed with skin cancer around Thanksgiving in 2016 and went on to be successfully treated for the condition.