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Teddi Mellencamp provides fans with the latest information on their cancer treatments.
former The real housewife in Beverly Hills Star, 44, was diagnosed with melanoma in 2022. Her condition rose to phase 4 in February this year and transferred to her lungs and brain. She then underwent brain surgery and removed four tumors. She received immunotherapy after the surgery, which Mellencamp revealed in a podcast with Judge Tamra on Wednesday, Two TS in the pod, She was stopping.
“Essentially, what we want to know is, yes, I started to feel good, I could do all the pods, I could do all these things, I could go to all my daughters horse shows, I could stay in my home by myself, I felt very strong,” the reality TV star explained.
“What’s going on is that the longer I’ve been on immunotherapy, the more it makes me sick.”
Mellencamp explained that the side effects of the treatment made her barely unable to keep her eyes open and tried to “stay straight”. She said she will temporarily stop immunotherapy to help her body restore its strength.
“The longer I take immunotherapy, the more it will make me sick,” Mellencamp said. (Getty)
“I’m using steroids and we’re doing everything we can to get me back to my feelings, you know, I can do that, I can do everything,” she said.
The health update for reality TV stars comes a week after her candid interview charmwhere she spoke to the doctor without scanning the melanoma found on her shoulder.
“I never really thought about it because I was like, ‘I go to the doctor every three months. Why don’t they let me check it?’ The highest melanoma on my shoulder is the stage I finally followed up, like, ‘We didn’t have a scan because there was nothing on your body. “But see what's going on,” Melencamp told the publication.
Mellencamp shares three young children with her estranged husband Edwin Arroyave: Slate, 12; Cruz, 10; and Pigeon, 5.
In addition to providing the latest information on her cancer treatment on social media, Mellencamp also details how her child is affected by the condition.
“I'm fighting for my life,” she said in an interview. US Weekly In April. “But it’s also the life of my family and everyone I love.”