Paralympian Hunter Woodhall Has Emergency Surgery During Hospital Visit _ E! NEWS

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00:00I think this ring might have saved my life yesterday.

00:02Paralympian Hunter Woodall is revealing he rushed into surgery.

00:06The truck star shares that he traveled to Utah to spend time with his dad following

00:10his open heart surgery.

00:12While driving up to his parents' home, Hunter says that his stomach started to hurt, but

00:16he immediately assumed it was the blue cheese he ate, given his severe lactose intolerance.

00:21Hunter says this in his March 5th Instagram post.

00:24When I got to my parents' house, I didn't even have time to say hey to them because

00:27my stomach was hurting so bad, so I just went downstairs.

00:30And I figured it was because of the cheese I had on my salad, but this was so much worse

00:34than anything I have ever experienced.

00:36I was throwing up all night.

00:37Tossing and turning all night, the Olympic athlete woke up to notifications on his Oura

00:42ring, with his health stats looking off.

00:44But what caught me off guard is a symptom radar that had major signs that something

00:49was wrong with my body.

00:50And I've been wearing this ring for four years and I've never seen this, so it instantly

00:53caught me off guard.

00:54They told me that my resting heart rate was increased, my body temperature was increased,

00:58and my HRV was increased.

01:00Ultimately, Hunter's mom decided to take him to the hospital, where they found out

01:04his appendix is extremely enlarged.

01:07So they prepped me for surgery, they got me in, everything went really well, and today

01:11I have three new incision scars.

01:15I got one there on my belly button, got another one right there, a third one right there.

01:19However, the gold medal winner says he is now on his way to recovery.

01:24I'm doing great.

01:25Thank you guys for all the prayers and thoughts yesterday.

01:27My dad is doing great as well.

01:29I came here to recover with him for his surgery and now we're going to be recovering together.