LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- A football player on a recruiting visit at the University of Louisville ended up in the emergency room at UofL Hospital.

Caleb Woodson tweeted an image Sunday night, showing himself in a hospital bed in front of a plate of food, giving a "thumbs up."

He said , after an amazing recruiting visit at U of L, he had to have an emergency appendectomy.

Woodson thanked the surgeons, nurses and doctors, whom he said saved his life.

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