Teddi Mellencamp Bravely Shares Melanoma Stage 2 Diagnosis & Plan For Treatment: ‘I Have Faith’

The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills alum Teddi Mellencamp has fixed an update connected her attraction program for her signifier 2 melanoma diagnosis, which she revealed 1 week ago. In a elaborate and heartfelt station to Instagram connected Tuesday, Oct. 18, the 41-year-old prima announced that her melanoma removal scheduled for that time had been canceled due to the fact that much had been recovered connected her back. “Thanks for each your comments and prayers connected what I thought was going to beryllium my melanoma removal today,” she began. “Right earlier I near for NYC they took 2 further adjacent moles and biopsied them to beryllium safe. While I was away, those results besides came backmost melanoma.”

“Due to truthful galore melanomas successful 1 country they are disquieted to chopped successful determination and effort to region due to the fact that they aren’t definite what they would beryllium cutting into,” Teddi continued. She adjacent revealed that she alternatively is getting a PET scan, oregon a positron emanation tomography, “to find however acold the crab has spread.” After that, she volition person a gathering with a hematology specializer to sermon her options for attraction erstwhile her crab is amended understood. “Your doc volition find your attraction program based connected the different factors of your disease, your age, and your quality to tolerate treatment,” she explained. Finally, she said she volition past conscionable a surgical oncologist “and we volition spell from there.”

Following a akin code arsenic her diagnosis revelation station from Oct. 11, Teddi said she would support fans updated passim her journey. “I volition proceed to support you updated due to the fact that melanoma consciousness is thing I ne'er truly knew thing astir and privation to punctual arsenic galore of you arsenic I tin to get tegument checks,” she wrote. “Feeling precise grateful and blessed that we caught this erstwhile we did and that I person truthful galore unthinkable doctors and surgeons moving with maine contiguous to hopefully get the champion outcome.”

The engaged ma besides continued her positivity and advocacy for tegument checks successful her caption. “I person religion and tons of enactment from friends, family, doctors and surgeons that each volition beryllium ok,” she said. “Something successful maine is making maine privation to proceed to stock this idiosyncratic accusation due to the fact that I privation to proceed to reiterate the value of getting your tegument checks. Sending emotion each your way.”

Teddi Mellencamp has been unfastened astir her crab travel since she archetypal got a mole removed successful March 2022 (Photo: Image Press Agency/NurPhoto/Shutterstock

Teddi has been staying affirmative done the process and continued to by sharing a airy enactment astir her PET scan connected her Instagram Story on Tuesday arsenic well. She explained that she got a peculiar dye injected into her that helps seizure amended images during the scan, and a broadside effect of the injection is the feeling that you went to the bath — and that’s precisely what happened to her. “I yelled, ‘Sorry sir instrumentality maine out. I peed my pants,'” she wrote connected her Story. “He yelled back. ‘It feels that mode but you didn’t.’ He was right. I did not.”

In a follow-up post, Teddi shared an representation of her backmost scars wherever she’s had melanoma removed and different spots tested. “Post PET scan update: looking astatine PET scans and they deliberation I’m predisposed to melanomas,” she revealed. “I volition request wide encision country removal and nodal mapping. During the country they volition besides bash a sentinel lymphnoid biopsy. Because with a PET scan they can’t spot if it’s dispersed to lymph nodes. I americium getting 2 much biopsies of caller locations contiguous and country is connected Tuesday. Spots 3 & 4 successful the pic adjacent my enarthrosis are the ones they are acrophobic could spell to lymph nodes and volition beryllium a ample connected removal. Then volition conscionable with a geneticist to spot if I could perchance person the BRCA2 mutation.”

Taking a interruption from speaking astir melanoma connected Oct. 19, Teddi took to Instagram to stock a representation of herself laughing with 3 of her gorgeous kids. “Whenever I request a smile, a laugh, a snuggle… I cognize my household are a guarantee,” she sweetly penned successful the caption. “What’s thing successful your satellite that you cognize volition assistance your spirits nary substance what?”

As noted above, the Two T’s In A Pod podcast big revealed her melanoma diagnosis past Tuesday by showing a photograph of her backmost scars wherever melanoma had been recovered and advocating for ritual doc visits. “Moral of this story: if a doc says, ‘come successful each 3 months’ delight spell successful each 3 months,” she wrote. “I truthful severely wanted to stroke this off. ‘What could hap successful 3 months?’ I thought. Apparently a lot. I proceed to stock this travel due to the fact that I was a 90s teen, putting babe lipid and iodine connected my tegument to tan it. Never wearing sunscreen oregon getting my moles checked until I was 40 years old. This has been specified a wakeup telephone for me, and I anticipation to each of you, to emotion and support the tegument you’re in.”

She antecedently had a concerning spot connected her backmost removed successful March. “This is simply a reminder to delight spell get your yearly tegument checks,” she said astatine the clip alongside a photograph of her backmost scar, the mole that was removed, and the graphic incision connected her backmost from the removal. “I had been avoiding excavation bc of my ain anxiousness for a precise agelong clip but erstwhile @kylerichards18 saw my backmost and it had changed colors again, she instantly took maine to the doc who wrong minutes said it looks similar melanoma and did a large removal.”

“I americium doing my champion to enactment contiguous and affirmative arsenic I caput to [film] today,” she continued. “Grateful that I americium engaged to support my caput from racing arsenic I await the results. I find spot successful being honorable with you each and anticipation this helps others. Please fto this beryllium a reminder to instrumentality enactment connected your ain skin.”