Teddi Mellencamp can see the light at the end of the tunnel.
The TV personality and daughter of rock singer John Mellencamp, who revealed in February that several tumors were found on her brain, shared an encouraging update on her cancer recovery in an emotional post on social media April 23.
Mellencamp, 43, announced she has about six more weeks of immunotherapy treatment after it was discovered that all her tumors have “shrunk or disappeared.”
“Doctors believe I will be healed if everything stays on course,” Mellencamp wrote on Instagram. “Thank you to everyone who has sent their love, prayers, and positivity ❤️❤️❤️”
“The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” alum also shared her excitement about her nearly cancer-free status in an accompanying video.
“Honestly, the crying is already done, but I just finished with all of my scans and my tumors have significantly shrunk,” Mellencamp said, “which doctors believe means that this all will work and that I will be back to myself and feeling good.”
Mellencamp underwent emergency surgery in February after being hospitalized for a series of “severe and debilitating headaches,” she revealed in an Instagram post at the time, which turned out to be “multiple tumors” that her doctors believed had “been growing for at least 6 months.”
The former Bravo star said two of her tumors would be surgically removed during the Feb. 12 procedure, while the “remaining smaller tumors will be dealt with via radiation at a later date.”
Mellencamp’s health journey seemed to take a turn for the worse in late March, after four additional brain tumors were discovered, she told Us Weekly in an interview published April 2. She also shared that she was battling stage 4 melanoma, a type of skin cancer she has long struggled with, that later metastasized to her lungs and brain.
“There are some days (where) I think you’re allowed to say, ‘I don’t feel confident right now,” Mellencamp said in the interview. “And there are some days that I’m like, ‘It is what it is.’ Some days, I’m really sad and really scared, and some days, I’m like, ‘I got this; I’m not worried.’”
Mellencamp also opened up about how her cancer diagnosis has impacted her father John, formerly known as John Cougar. On an April 9 episode of her “Two Ts In A Pod” podcast, Mellencamp told co-host Tamra Judge that “the Cougs makes me talk to him more than he’s ever made me talk to him,” including about her funeral planning.
“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.’ He goes, ‘I just want to make sure you’re going to be in our group family mausoleum,’” Mellencamp recalled, to which Judge replied, “John, no!”
Contributing: Jay Stahl, USA TODAY
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