‘Dancing With the Stars’ Judge Carrie Ann Inaba Recovering After Emergency Appendectomy: ‘Painful Experience’

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On the mend! Carrie Ann Inaba is recuperating after undergoing emergency surgery.“I had an emergency appendectomy last week and while it’s been quite a painful experience, I also know it’s a gift to even feel this pain.

I realize after speaking with my doctor that it could have been much worse,” the Dancing With the Stars judge, 55, wrote via Instagram on Thursday, March 30, sharing hospital footage and praising the “wonderful” medical professionals at Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles for taking care of her.She added: “Appendicitis attacks happen suddenly and seemingly out of nowhere.

And when you are in that much pain, the last thing you want to do is go anywhere. And when you have [an] autoimmune disease, you are often having strange health occurrences that no one can explain or help you with so sometimes, you try to wait it out, like I did.

I was wrong.”The Showgirls actress revealed that she had felt pain in her abdomen before she started “violently” vomiting, which “knocked me off my feet.” Inaba added on Thursday: “I should have gone [to the hospital] when I couldn’t stand without excruciating pain, but I honestly didn’t want to leave my [pets alone], and I’m so accustomed to pain — [I] thought I should let it play out.”The choreographer, who noted that she was very grateful for the medical facility’s efforts, concluded: “Thankfully, my appendix will not be bothering me anymore.”In order to view the video, please allow Manage CookiesThe Hawaii native has long suffered from autoimmune conditions, such as lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, fibromyalgia, vasculitis and Sjogrën’s, which she noted made her appendicitis more severe.