Teddi Mellencampa candidly deals with the possibility of dying in the middle of the battle of Cancer
Teddi Mellencamp shared his brutally honest thoughts on his ongoing battle with cancerincluding what he told his children.
The first Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Star received her for the first time diagnosis of melanoma In 2022, which went to the fourth phase in February e metastatized to its lungs and brain.
In a new interview with US WeeklyMellencamp revealed how he was facing his health struggles.
“I’m fighting for my life,” he told the publication. “But also for the life of my family and for all the people I love.”
Mellencamp shares three sons, daughters Ardesia, 12 years old and where, five, and son Cruz, 10 years old, with her husband Edwin Arroyave, from whom she separated last year. Throughout its time Real Housewives, He always said to his children: “Moms come back”, every time they were angry for her to leave them for a work event.
“I haven’t said that line since I came back (from the hospital),” he said. “They all know that I’m fighting more hard I can, but I didn’t say it (it) because I don’t want to lie to them. And I don’t know.”
“Everyone wants me to always be super positive,” he said.
“One of my coping mechanisms is to be sarcastic. I would prefer to joke and have the best possible result that being completely in denial and break my heart.”
In terms of help to his children to cope, Mellencamp said he started showing them a therapist because he didn’t feel “completely equipped” to help alone.
“He is helping because I ask me questions that I probably wouldn’t have thought of giving them answers,” he said.
“They realize when I suffer and how enormous the intervention has been. I don’t know they know the rest. I think they are a little frightened. I intend to fight very hard. I can’t imagine my life without them, so I intend to do everything I can, it doesn’t matter how much I do to say. I can’t imagine – it seems like a narcissist?
Last month, MellenCamp revealed in an Instagram post More tumors were found in his body After The doctors had previously removed more tumors than they initially expected During surgery in February.
“Update from my scans today”, MellenCamp wrote a post on Instagram with a photo of him. “I have more tumors in my brain that have not been able to be removed through surgery. I also have two tumors in my lung. These are all metastases of my melanoma.”
However, he said that fortunately he will not have to undergo another surgery since the doctors “hope that immunotherapy will deal with them effectively”.
Immunotherapy is a type of cancer treatment that uses the body’s immune system to combat cancer.
Second US WeeklyMellenCamp should have discovered on June 1 whether or not it would need another round of immunotherapy or surgery. However, his treatment plan changed after more tumors have been discovered on March 25th.
