The fitness business owner and co-host of the podcast Two Ts In A Pod, Teddi Mellencamp, told her fans she had been diagnosed with stage 4 melanoma.
At the time, Mellencamp, who appeared on the three-season reality series The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, told Us Weekly, “I’m fighting for my life.” but also for my loved ones and my family’s lives.
She explained that she had been suffering from excruciating headaches on social media in February. On February 12, during a visit to the doctor, they found several tumors in her brain and surgically removed two of them.
After being initially diagnosed with melanoma in 2022, Mellencamp’s illness has since advanced and spread to her brain and lungs.
She remarked in April, “I kind of thought that I had already beaten it.” I discovered that I had four more tumors a few days later. Thus, there are a wide variety of highs and lows.
The health coach also discussed how her diagnosis has affected her children, whom she shares with Edwin Arroyave, her ex-husband.
“Whether it was good or bad news, we all just try to support one another and find opportunities for special moments.”
She went on, “I have really good kids, even though I know everyone says that.” “One of the main reasons it’s so much better is laughter.”
Following her brain surgery, she publicly displayed her scars during a forceful performance at a cancer charity last week. Mellencamp decided against donning a wig on the occasion.
The daily choice of wearing a wig or not. “I usually pick the wig on crying days,” she wrote on Instagram, sharing a selfie wearing a full blonde wig.
“I haven’t gone out since I left the hospital,” she remarked. “I feel great. I am aware that everything is getting better, even though it feels so terrible right now.
In her most recent Instagram post, Mellencamp gave a favorable update, stating that after therapy, her tumors have “shrunk or disappeared.”
She has been undergoing immunotherapy as well as radiation.
“There’s one update I just had to share!” In the caption, Mellencamp writes. “All of the tumors in stage 4 (the brain and lung metastases of melanoma) shrank or vanished, so I have about six more weeks of immunotherapy left, and if everything goes according to plan, the doctors say I will be healed.” We are grateful to everyone who has expressed their love, prayers, and encouragement.
“Hopefully, I will be done with immunotherapy and cancer-free after two more sessions,” she added. Since my doctor just spoke to me in that manner, I’m going to have a positive attitude. “You accomplished this,” he says. It’s you who has that Mellencamp blood. You’re doing fine, then.
The American Cancer Society states that stage 4 cancer has a 35% five-year survival rate and is the most advanced stage of the disease.
