Former Bachelorette star Ali Fedotowsky’s husband, Kevin Manno, is gearing up for surgery amid his ongoing thyroid cancer battle.
“Kevin is headed into surgery. And in true @kevinmanno fashion he is making me and everyone around him laugh,” Fedotowsky, 40 captioned an Instagram post on Monday, February 10. “We feel all of your love. Thank you for it. You’ve got this.”
The first image showed Manno, 41, holding a thumbs up while sitting in his hospital bed.
“I have a life hack: I know how to get out of work the day after the Super Bowl,” Manno joked in video from the same social media post. Fedotowsky also shared two other clips of Manno messing around before being put under anesthesia.
“You guys need me to pick up anything while I’m out,” he said, before pretending to fall asleep. “That’s the joke.”
Fedotowsky and Manno announced last month that he had been diagnosed with papillary thyroid cancer after experiencing no symptoms. (Fedotowsky and Manno have been married since 2017 and share two children: Molly, 8, and Riley, 6.)
Kevin Manno Courtesy of Ali Fedotowsky/Instagram
“Thankfully it’s a very treatable cancer,” they wrote in a joint Instagram post on January 26. “He has 2 malignant spots on his right side and it appears it is also in one lymph node, but we won’t know for sure until his surgery.”
Manno offered more details about his diagnosis while appearing on the “Almost Famous” podcast on February 6.
“I’m not just saying this. I’m so good,” he said. “The overwhelming feeling is just gratitude that we caught it and that I know about this and that we have a plan and that everybody has been so supportive.”
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Manno noted that he was “not stressed” ahead of the surgery either.
“I know that this is an easy one to just go in there and get,” he continued, “I have to be in bed for a bit to recover. But I’ll be back in action before you know it. So, I feel good.”
His cancer journey, unknowingly, started a year before his diagnosis. Manno explained to “Almost Famous” hosts Ben Higgins and Ashley Iaconetti that he and Fedotowsky got full-body scans last year and shared the results with their respective doctors.
“There were two tiny dots on my thyroid,” Manno recalled, noting that his doctor said they would check back in a year. “After we did those [follow-up] scans, she wanted me to get an ultrasound on it. I did. Then we found out that those little spots had doubled in size over the past year.”
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