After learning earlier this month that her skin cancer had advanced to Stage 4, Teddi Mellencamp, the daughter of singer-songwriter John Mellencamp, provided an “exciting” update. The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills alum shared the news on Instagram on Tuesday, saying it was “one update I couldn’t wait to share.”
Mellencamp wrote, “All tumors stage 4 (metastasized melanoma in my brain and lungs) shrunk or disappeared.” He continued, “I have approximately six more weeks of immunotherapy and doctors believe I will be healed if everything stays on course.” “Thank you to everyone who has sent their love, prayers, and positivity.”
“I just finished with all of my scans and my tumours have significantly shrunk,” Mellencamp said in the video she shared, “which doctors believe means that this all will work and that I will be back to myself and feeling good.” The 43-year-old reality star said she has two more sessions of immunotherapy and then “hopefully I am done and I will be cancer-free.”
“I’m gonna keep a positive outlook because that’s the way that my doctor just spoke to me,” she added. “He’s like, ‘You did this. You got this.’” The Two T’s in a Pod host announced earlier this month that she was “fighting for my life” in an update. Mellencamp admitted in an interview with Us Weekly on April 2 that she no longer tells her children that “moms always come back” when she goes to the hospital. She told the outlet, “I have not said that line to them since I’ve been back (from the hospital).” “I haven’t said (it) because I don’t want to lie to them, but they all know that I’m fighting the hardest I can. And I don’t know.”
Mellencamp said her children, Slate, 12, Cruz, 10, and five-year-old Dove, are receiving therapy to help them through the hard time.“ She stated, “I’m not equipped to fully handle this.” “It is helping because they ask me questions that I probably wouldn’t have thought to give them answers to.” Mellencamp claimed that since her diagnosis, her well-known father has called to check in on her on a daily basis and that they have grown closer. “I was not expecting my entire family to be out here within 24 hours, but by the time I was out of surgery, everybody was there,” she said. “My dad hates L.A., so the fact that he was out here for 18 days — wow. That speaks volumes. On an April 9 episode of her podcast, Mellencamp shared that her father called her numerous times in a row to let her know he had detailed plans for her burial amid her ongoing battle with cancer.
“Yesterday my dad calls 11 times in a row. Finally, I answer, I’m like, ‘I’m in the bath. Let me live a little. Like let me enjoy,’” she recalled. “He goes, ‘I just want to make sure you’re going to be in our group family mausoleum.’”
She asked her father if there would be any room in the mausoleum for her family.
I replied, “I have children, so where are they going?” She shared, “Well, there will be the top five, and then we will have small areas around it, and then that will be where everyone will get buried.” “I go, ‘Do I need to make this commitment right now?’ And he goes, ‘Well, you’re doing your will right now, so you may as well put it in there.’”
Mellencamp said she agreed to be buried in the mausoleum, located in Indiana, and joked that she wanted the message “Hot girls never die” on her tombstone.
Teddi Mellencamp shares ‘exciting’ update following Stage 4 cancer diagnosis
