Bachelor in Paradise alum Joe Amabile has revealed a major update in his recovery journey after undergoing a serious brain surgery.
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On Thursday, Joe took to Instagram with a surprising update on his health.
"15 days after my brain surgery and I'm going for my first run," Joe wrote over footage of himself stretching in his fitness clothes and sipping a cup of water.
"Wish me luck," he added, "and don't worry, I was medically cleared."
The Dancing with the Stars alum wrote in the caption, "If you're looking for a little inspiration this morning I just ran 3 and half miles only 15 days after my brain surgery."
Joe's wife, Serena Pitt -- whom he recently called his "rock" -- commented on the post, "I couldn't do that on a good day."
Joe recently revealed via Instagram that he hopes to run in the 2026 New York City marathon after fully recovering from his surgery.
Joe is hitting his stride only a couple of days after having 23 staples removed from his head.
Joe explained on August 12, about a week after his surgery, that he experienced pain and had trouble speaking post-op at first. However, he quickly took himself off heavy painkillers.
"And then I got my prognosis, which was fairly good," The Bachelorette alum continued at the time.
"I do have an astrocytoma, but it's very low-grade. They did get the whole thing. When it comes to malignant brain tumors, they don't know what's left over, so I will be going on treatment."
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Joe explained that his treatment for this malignant tumor will be a pill "every day for the rest of my life to put the bad cells to sleep."
"And hopefully they stay asleep. And that's it, that's all I can do," he concluded.
On August 6, Joe revealed that he'd been discharged from the hospital.
Joe first revealed his brain tumor diagnosis to the world on July 13.
"I had to go get a brain MRI, and there was a blueberry-sized lesion in my brain that looks to be a glioma, which is a tumor," he told his fans via Instagram last month.
Joe said he "definitely wasn't expecting" to need brain surgery.
"I think it's one of those things where you're like, 'Oh, something like this would never happen to me,' and here I am. They say it's really early stages. I hope they are able to get it all, and I'm fine," he shared.
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The Bachelor in Paradise couple shared how they both had full-body MRI scans with Prenuvo -- with whom they were doing a professional partnership -- just to be proactive about their health.
About two days later, Joe said he received a phone call and thought he was going to be told he had an enlarged prostate because he tends to pee a lot during the night.
But when Joe spoke to his doctor on the phone, the Bachelor in Paradise alum was informed he had "a lesion" in his brain about the size of a marble or small grape.
"It's in the frontal lobe of my brain. The doctor was pretty alarming where he was like, 'You've got to go get this checked within the next week or two. It's urgent,'" Joe recalled.
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Joe therefore scheduled another MRI, after which the radiologist characterized his lesion as an "early-stage glioma, which is a tumor." Joe said they believed it was Grade 1 or 2 at the time.
Joe said the news was pretty shocking because, "for the most part," he wasn't experiencing any symptoms.
"Now I kind of feel like I might have symptoms, but some of them are self-induced. So that's a difficult territory," Joe admitted.
He elaborated, "The symptoms I'm having now are more like lightheadedness, and I think a lot of it now is more anxiety, I believe. But who knows? What I would be experiencing more of [based on] where it is in my brain would be lack of motor skills, personality changes, and memory loss."
Joe acknowledged that the craniotomy would be "very dangerous" and "scary."
Serena clarified how a surgeon planned to cut out a piece of Joe's skull and take out as much of the tumor as they could. She said titanium screws would then be used to close up Joe's skull.
"Even though it's slow-growing, the likelihood of it growing into something aggressive or problematic is very high," Serena noted. "They are amazed we caught it so early... so that's good news."
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After being a Night 1 boot, Joe returned for Season 5 of Bachelor in Paradise, where he fell in love with Kendall Long.
After Joe and Kendall split, Joe looked for love on Season 7 of Bachelor in Paradise in 2021 and found it with Serena.
Joe and Serena quietly tied the knot in a New York City courthouse in 2022 before having a bigger "magical" wedding for family and friends in South Carolina in September 2023.
Joe also previously competed on Season 27 of Dancing with the Stars and placed fifth with Jenna.
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