Joanna Gaines shares photo from hospital bed with a self-care reminder - GMA

Joanna Gaines is sending an important self-care reminder up of the holidays.

Taking to Instagram connected Wednesday, the erstwhile "Fixer Upper" prima shared a photograph of herself wearing sunglasses successful a infirmary furniture aft undergoing a surgical process known arsenic a microdiscectomy. The request for the surgery, she explained, stemmed from a backmost wounded she sustained from a cheerleading mishap successful precocious school.

Gaines said successful the station that she received her archetypal microdiscectomy successful 2001, which caused her to cancel her 2nd day with now-husband Chip Gaines, and she had the aforesaid process done "on different disc 2 days ago."

"I've ever joked that my backmost likes to enactment up astatine the astir inconvenient times and I was a spot stressed bc of the timing of it each with the vacation season," she admitted. "But I'm genuinely grateful for the forced remainder during the busiest clip of the year. It has been a acquisition to simply enactment put, look astatine the wonderment each around, and conscionable beryllium still."

Gaines ended her station wishing her followers "a beauteous Christmas week" and reminded them, "It whitethorn not each spell arsenic planned- but whitethorn you find the quality and clasp the wonderment of the present and now. ✨"

Gaines and her husband, whom she joined successful May 2003, stock 5 children together: son Drake, 18; girl Ella Rose, 16; lad Duke, 14; girl Emmie Kay, 12; and lad Crew, 4.