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Bachelor in Paradise alum Joe Amabile is documenting the next steps of his brain surgery recovery.

“How does it feel, Joe?” Joe’s wife, Serena Pitt, asked in a Tuesday, August 18, social media video as doctors removed 23 stitches from his head.

Joe, 40, noted in response that the process “feels, kind of, like nothing.”

“It doesn’t really feel like anything,” he admitted.

Joe announced earlier this month that he successfully had brain surgery to remove a tumor.

“Incredibly grateful to the team at NYU Langone Health for their endless patience, care, compassion and kindness these past few days,” Serena, 28, later wrote via Instagram on August 9. “Joe is [now] home recovering, and we’re so grateful to have been in such good hands.”

The former grocery store owner, who met Serena on season 7 of Bachelor in Paradise, announced his diagnosis in July.

“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 an Instagram video last month. “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.”

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He added at the time, “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 later discovered that he had a “very low grade” astrocytoma, which the Mayo Clinic defines as a type of brain or spinal cord tumor that may result in headaches, seizures, nausea or changes in mood or behavior, according to the Mayo Clinic.

“They did get the whole thing,” Joe revealed in an August 12 update shared via Instagram. “When it comes to malignant brain tumors, they don’t know what’s left over, so I will be going on treatment, which is just a pill every day for the rest of my life to put the bad cells to sleep and hopefully they stay asleep.”

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Just days later, Joe and Serena revealed his scar with Harry Potter-inspired humor.

“So, it’s true. Do you really have the … the scar?” Serena lip-synched a line from Harry Potter in a TikTok clip shared on Saturday, August 15. (Harry Potter famously has a lightning bolt-shaped scar on his forehead, hidden beneath his bangs.)

In response, Joe shyly lifted his black baseball cap to reveal a scar spanning the length of his hairline.

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