Joe Amabile Joe Amabile anniversary coverage now carries a medical update: three weeks after surgery to remove a brain tumor, he says he is about 90% back. He still has some speech difficulty, but he was already returning to routine fast enough to go on a run 15 days after the operation.
Three Weeks After Surgery
Amabile said, "I still struggle a little bit," and added, "I could think of what to say, but I would have a hard time vocalizing it. And I would say I'm about 90% back." That puts the recovery in practical terms for anyone watching a post-op timeline: he is functioning, but not fully at baseline.
He spent four days in the hospital after early August surgery and said he is taking daily medication to keep the tumor at bay. He also documented his recovery on Instagram, where the pace of the comeback became part of the story rather than a private medical file.
July MRI To August Surgery
In July, an elective full-body MRI screening found a blueberry-sized lesion in his left frontal lobe. Dr. Alexandra Miller of Perlmutter Cancer Center said follow-up scans at NYU Medical Center pointed toward an astrocytoma, and said the tumor had a good prognosis. The workup moved quickly from screening to surgery in early August, which is the kind of sequence that changes a routine health check into a time-sensitive procedure.
Amabile said the scan may have found the tumor before symptoms did. He said, "According to my doctor, I wouldn't probably know about this until I eventually had a seizure," which is the detail that explains why an early MRI mattered even though he had not gone looking for trouble.
Serena Pitt’s Anniversary Message
Serena Pitt said, "Unexpected challenges are going to be thrown your way and I feel like it has made me feel very grateful for the partner that I chose," tying the recovery to the anniversary moment and to the partnership itself. For a couple that met on Bachelor in Paradise, the update is less about a public celebration than about what support looks like when a health scare lands in real life.
Amabile’s next hurdle is speech, not the surgery itself. The open question is whether the final pathology will change the long-term picture, but the immediate read is straightforward: the operation worked, the recovery is moving, and the daily medication suggests the medical plan is now about control rather than crisis.
