Teddi Mellencamp is still hopeful as he fights stage 4 cancer, despite doctors warning him that he has a 50% survival rate.
“The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” Star was hospitalized earlier this year with multiple brain tumors. During the procedure to remove the mass, doctors discovered two additional tumors in the lungs.
Mellencamp, 43, admitted that the average life expectancy rate for cancer patients falls into her mind while receiving immunotherapy for treatment.
The scary symptoms of “real housewife” star Teddi Mellencamp led to brain cancer diagnosis
Teddi Mellencamp admitted that doctors gave her the possibility of survival of “50/50” cancer. (Getty/Teddi Mellencamp Instagram)
“I learned that this is not the best question to ask if you’re undergoing immunotherapy, because I only had around ten years of immunotherapy,” she told Nightline.
She was initially upset to hear that immunotherapy had a success rate of “50/50”.
“Real Housewife” star Teddi Mellencamp has four more brain tumors
“It’s one of my favorite things, and they often say 50/50,” she said. Mellencamp remembered saying, “50/50? You’re probably going to buy a car that only drives 50% of the time. I don’t want this.”
She said, “And [the doctor’s] “No, it’s just how long immunotherapy has been around, so that’s just how long the research worked.” So I try to find a positive. ”
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Finding positivity was sometimes a challenge.
“I really want to control it, but this is completely out of my control. And for the first time, I’m really scared,” Mellencamp said.
she His famous father, John Mellencamp. During the process it remained small but guaranteed comfort.
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“Yesterday, my dad calls me 11 times in a row. Finally, I say, ‘I’m in a bath. Let’s live a little bit,'” Teddy explained on her podcast, “Two TS of the Pod.” “The Real Housewives” Startamra judge.
“He goes, “I just want to make sure you’re in the spirit soleum of our group family.”
Teddy’s father, John Mellencamp, checks in via phone every day. (Kevin Mazur)
She went on to say she immediately thought of her three children, Slate, 12 years old. Cruz, 10; and pigeons, 5, and they fall into the spirits of the Indiana family.
“He said, ‘Well, there’s the top five, there’s going to be a little area around it, and that’s where everyone gets buried.” She continued. “He goes, “You’re doing your will now, so you can put it there too.”
In the end, she said, “I think I agreed to be in the Spirit,” and joked that someone she met too long ago had urged her to put “Hot Girls Never Die” on the gravestone.
Mellencamp said US every week Earlier this month, she says she is in the battle for her life after cancer spreads to her brain and lungs.
“I’m fighting for my life.” Mellencamp told the outlet. “But for the life of my family and for all the people I love.”
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In February, after drug therapy became ineffective for migraines and Mellencamp began to feel severe pain, she rushed to the emergency room with her estranged husband, Edwin Aroyabe.
The “Rhobh” star is trying to “find” a “positive” during her cancer battle. (JB lacroix/wireimage)
“The pain had become something I had never felt before,” she said. “They diagnosed me Multiple brain tumors,but [ER doctor] He says he can’t take them out. They have to take me to Cedars Sinai [hospital].
“And I was like, ‘Can’t you take me tonight? I want to go tonight.’ I had six brain tumors and two lung tumors.
Mellencamp began treatment for radiation and immunotherapy shortly after surgery.
“After I lifted my head, I thought I was feeling how I felt,” she said. “My response has always been a headache and that means immunotherapy or radiation is killing your cancer, so it turns out to be good news.”
Teddi and his estranged husband Edwin Arroyave put on hold on divorce and handled her health. (Rodin Eckenroth/Getty Images)
“I’m so tired and I’m running away, but I know I’ll get better again,” Mellencamp said on social media after receiving both radiation and immunotherapy the day before.
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“What everyone can keep in mind… I thought I was already beaten that, and a few days later I found out I had four more tumors.
Stephanie Giang-Paunon of Fox News Digital contributed to this report.
