A health emergency has sent CBS News national correspondent Jamie Yuccas into surgery overnight, and she’s now recovering at home. The KCAL Los Angeles morning anchor addressed followers on September 24, sharing a series of hospital photos, one showing her tucked into bed under a large CBS L.A. blanket, as she detailed what turned out to be a sudden appendicitis diagnosis.
CBS News’ Jamie Yuccas gives update after emergency overnight surgery
Yuccas called the experience a wake-up call to pay closer attention to her body, noting the timing felt almost too fitting since September marks Self-Care Awareness Month. Before landing in the operating room, Yuccas said her symptoms threw off even medical professionals at first.
In her own words: “I was in a lot of pain and having some other symptoms I’ll spare you, and I knew something wasn’t right.” She said that when she went to urgent care, her symptoms “puzzled everyone.” However, as her pain increased, she realized she had to go to ER.
That ER visit finally gave Yuccas answers. “Turns out, I had appendicitis,” she wrote, explaining that her case was unusual because the pain hit her left side instead of the right, where appendicitis discomfort typically shows up. Once a CT scan confirmed it, things moved fast, as she put it: “Even the ER doctor and nurses were surprised when a CT scan went- ding, ding, ding surgery time!”
Doctors operated that same night, and by September 24, Yuccas was already home, appendix-free and recovering. She used the moment to remind her audience not to dismiss serious symptoms, writing, “If something feels really wrong, don’t convince yourself you’re being dramatic or that you should just tough it out.”
Beyond the medical scare, Yuccas took time to thank the people who got her through it, including her care team at Cedars-Sinai in Marina Del Rey and her husband, whom she jokingly credited for “quite the date night we ended up having!” Her post quickly filled with supportive comments from friends and fans wishing her a smooth recovery.
