Bachelor in Paradise Joe Amabile is on the mend after undergoing brain surgery.
“So happy to be back home with Joe,” Amabile’s wife, Serena Pitt, wrote via her Instagram Stories on Saturday, August 8, sharing a pic of her husband lounging on a couch in their New York City apartment watching golf.
She continued, “Lots of rest and recovery ahead of us.”
In a follow-up post shared to her feed, Serena wrote, “Incredibly grateful to the team at NYU Langone Health for their endless patience, care, compassion and kindness these past few days. Joe is home recovering, and we’re so grateful to have been in such good hands.”
Joe, 40, underwent surgery last week after doctors found a tumor in his brain.
“They got it all!” Joe wrote via Instagram on Thursday, August 6, alongside a slew of post-op selfies from the hospital.
Serena, 28, had stayed by her husband’s side throughout his hospitalization.
“The best update: they were able to remove the entire tumor,” she gushed via her Instagram Stories later on Thursday. “Joe is recovering really well. We’re feeling so grateful.”
Joe, who met Serena on season 7 of Bachelor in Paradise, revealed his diagnosis last month.
“So a little medical update. I didn’t share my Prenuvo [full body scan] results because they ended up finding a lesion in my brain,” Joe said in a July video shared via Instagram. “Then, I had to go get a brain MRI and there was a blueberry size lesion in my brain that looks to be a glioma, which is a tumor. I now need to get brain surgery next week to get it removed and get it tested.”
The former grocery store owner continued, “And then we’re going to go from there. So it’s been a wild couple weeks. I definitely wasn’t expecting this. I think it’s one of those things where you’re like, ‘Oh, something like this will never happen to me.’ And here I am.”
Joe further noted that the tumor was in the “really early stages” and physicians were hopeful about removing the entirety of it.
“This past month has been a lot of ups and downs to say the least. After multiple scans and MRIs I have what looks to be an early stage brain tumor,” Joe captioned his upload at the time. “In two weeks I’ll be undergoing a craniotomy to have it removed — yeah brain surgery — @memorialsloankettering. I’m doing my best to stay positive during this time and am lucky to have a lot of support from family and friends.”
Days later, Joe addressed his decision to have brain surgery on an episode of the couple’s “Not Married to This” podcast.
“It was, we’ll never know what this is by just monitoring it. We will only know by taking it out or or biopsying it,” Joe acknowledged. “And from my understanding, they only do biopsies in the brain if removing it is very dangerous. But where mine is located, it seems like it’s a less dangerous scale to remove it. I mean, the surgery is very dangerous. [A] craniotomy … is scary. It’s a serious surgery.”
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