Ali Fedotowsky and her husband, Kevin Manno, are opening up about his ongoing most cancers battle.
“The loopy factor is he had completely ZERO signs and his blood work got here again good,” Fedotowsky, 40, wrote through Instagram on Wednesday, January 29, referring to her husband’s well being earlier than his prognosis. “So we thought it was necessary to share his story. … We will’t stress sufficient, how necessary it’s to have a health care provider [who] pays consideration to your charts, and naturally, taking note of your individual charts and follow-ups! Which we didn’t. Thank goodness our physician did.”
The previous Bachelorette and Manno, 41, confirmed earlier this month that he was recently diagnosed with papillary thyroid most cancers, calling it “very treatable.”
“Kevin had no signs [and] nonetheless has no signs,” Fedotowsky mentioned in her Wednesday replace. “[He] feels so wholesome, finest form of your life. I imply, your bloodwork at each annual [check-up] has come again completely good. No lumps and bumps in his throat, like, his thyroid has been felt.”
In keeping with Manno, he and Fedotowsky additionally every underwent a Prenuvo full-body MRI scan “a bit of over a 12 months in the past.”
“We each, for probably the most half, received clear bills of health,” Manno mentioned. “They did detect two spots on my thyroid after which my major care physician was like, ‘OK, that’s one thing. We’ll take one other take a look at it in a 12 months and see what’s occurring.’”
Manno, at his physician’s request, not too long ago underwent an ultrasound and a biopsy that confirmed the presence of most cancers.
“Not solely had it doubled in dimension within the 12 months, however then the biopsy confirmed that it was cancerous,” Manno recalled. “My total feeling is simply, like, gratitude and I really feel so grateful that we caught this after we did. Early detection is, type of, the message that we wish to unfold now.”
Fedotowsky additionally credit the Prenuvo scan with saving Manno’s life.
“I really feel like that is such a blessing in a manner,” Fedotowsky concluded. “It has given us a brand new outlook on life and it makes us extra appreciative for each single day and we will deal with this and maintain this. You’re going to be round without end.”
Manno is scheduled to bear a surgical process to take away the cancerous tissue.
“The prognosis is superb,” he mentioned in a Sunday, January 26, social media video. “It seems to be good. It’s going to be one thing I can go in February tenth [and have a] surgical procedure. We’re going to knock it out and it’ll be behind us.”
Fedotowsky and Manno have been married since 2017 and share two children: Molly, 8, and Riley, 6.