Joe Amabile said Wednesday that doctors diagnosed him with a very low grade astrocytoma after brain surgery, and that the next phase of his treatment will mean a daily pill and regular MRIs. He said recovery has been “really great for the most part,” but the plan is to keep the remaining cells quiet for good.
The update matters because Amabile, 40, first said on July 13 that scans had turned up what looked like an early stage brain tumour after a full-body MRI, setting off the surgery he later described as a craniotomy. Serena Pitt, meanwhile, said he is home recovering, giving the clearest sign yet that the immediate danger from the operation has passed.
Amabile’s description of the diagnosis points to a long run of follow-up rather than a short course of treatment. He said the pill is something he will take every day for the rest of his life, with regular MRIs used to watch for any change. In practical terms, that means the surgery removed the visible problem, but the care does not end there.
That is the uneasy part of the update: he is sounding upbeat, yet he is also describing a condition that will need constant monitoring. He said doctors found a lesion that looked like a glioma and urged him to have it checked because it was urgent, a detail that helps explain why the story moved so quickly from a scan to surgery to lifelong treatment planning.
Astrocytomas begin in astrocyte cells, and a very low grade form is generally considered slower moving than more aggressive brain tumours. What readers still do not know is the full prognosis behind Amabile’s diagnosis, and that remains the question his next MRIs will start to answer.
Amabile, who is known as Grocery Store Joe from The Bachelorette and Bachelor in Paradise, said he is staying positive. For now, the story is less about a finished recovery than a new routine: one pill every day, regular scans, and a life measured in checkups.
