Teddi Mellencamp braced for the worst ahead of her brain tumor diagnosis in February.
The 43-year-old former reality television personality reunited with Tamra Judge, 57, for a new episode of their Two Ts In A Pod podcast on Thursday and spoke in detail about her health crisis.
Judge remembered Mellencamp texting her after doctors discovered multiple tumors on her brain just weeks ago: ‘You said to me, ‘You all thought I was mental, but actually I’m on my deathbed.”
Teddi confirmed, ‘I remember feeling like this is actually it.’
Tamra responded to Mellencamp’s text message by telling her, ‘No, you’re not [on your deathbed], because if you’re on yours, then I’m on mine because I can’t live without you.’
The effects of the growing tumors were present for six months before the star, who is the daughter of musician John Mellencamp, finally sought medical attention.
Teddi Mellencamp braced for the worst ahead of her brain tumor diagnosis in February
The 43-year-old former reality television personality reunited with Tamra Judge, 57, for a new episode of their Two Ts In A Pod podcast on Thursday and spoke in detail about her health crisis
She’d been suffering from migraines but ignored the pain and kept pushing forward as she dealt with other things happening in her life.
Teddi announced her divorce from her husband of 13 years, Edwin Arroyave, in November.
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‘I didn’t want to face any of it. And I was like, I just need to keep moving forward. And if I keep moving forward, then everything’s going to be fine,’ she explained about her mindset at the time.
The former Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star then detailed her difficult recovery as she spoke about being discharged from hospital after her February 12th brain tumor surgery.
She told viewers that she was forced to take ‘disgusting sodium pills’ because, in order to be discharged, she had to urinate.
‘I couldn’t pee, guys. I do not know why I could not pee,’ Teddi said.
The sodium pills proved tough on Teddi’s system as she revealed that they made her throw up ’85 times’ in a single day.
‘One day, I remember I had just thrown up, like, 85 times from the stupid salt pills,’ she confessed to Tamra.
Judge remembered Mellencamp texting her after doctors discovered multiple tumors: ‘You said to me, ‘You all thought I was mental, but actually I’m on my deathbed.” Teddi confirmed, ‘I remember feeling like this is actually it’
While ‘things were a lot better’ once she was out of hospital and staying at a H๏τel with full-time nurses there to ᴀssist her, Teddi said that she ‘got really, really sad.’
She said the sadness came from her realizing the severity of her situation.
‘Once I understood, then I got really sad,’ she told Judge.
Elsewhere in the episode, Teddi continued: ‘I can say I’ve had some of my darkest, saddest days since [February] 12th when this happened.’
She recalled, ‘I was at a horse show. I remember going to my friend Nicole like, ‘I have the worst migraine I’ve ever had in my entire life.’ I remember not being able to remember how to say certain words.
‘I started shaking really bad and I didn’t know where I was.’
Despite taking migraine medication, the symptoms persisted and even got worse.
‘I remember being in such extreme pain. I could barely walk. I couldn’t see. I didn’t wanna do anything,’ the mother-of-three told listeners.
Teddi was active on Instagram on Thursday, posting a clip from the desert, where she said it was ‘f***ing freezing out’
Last week Mellencamp used Instagram to give her one million followers an update on how she’s faring in the weeks since her emergency operation.
Sharing a selfie, she wrote, ‘Update from my scans today: I have multiple tumors in my brain that weren’t able to be removed via surgery. I also have 2 tumors in my lungs. These are all metastases of my melanoma.
‘The doctors are hopeful that immunotherapy will effectively treat them.’
Showing a touch of humor, she added, ‘I am feeling positive— that I will win this battle, that I got this wig (I like the short hair, just not the bald spots), and that I can remember all of Angelina’s kids’ names.’