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Teddi Mellencamp is opening up astir her wellness aft being diagnosed with signifier 2 melanoma.
As the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills alum explained successful an Oct. 11 video shared to her Instagram Stories, Teddi received the telephone from her doc astir her diagnosis aft completing a workout and went into their offices instantly afterward. Now, she's sharing her communicative arsenic her doctors put adjacent steps moving forward.
"Melanoma consciousness update," Teddi captioned an Oct. 11 Instagram photo that featured the backmost her close shoulder. "Despite my anxiety, I listened to the doctors and went successful for my 3-month tegument cheque past week since my erstwhile melanoma. They said I had different abnormal spot adjacent my past one, truthful they did a biopsy. I got the telephone this morning: Stage 2 melanoma."
"Now, adjacent Wednesday I spell to an oncologist to person it chopped retired and travel up with a crippled program connected adjacent steps," she continued. "Of course, this is each pending immoderate further investigating and biopsies of different spots adjacent that were taken today."
As the mom of three noted, she's sharing her communicative to punctual others to enactment connected apical of their screenings.
"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."
Teddi concluded her profoundly idiosyncratic connection with a reminder to instrumentality attraction of yourself archetypal and foremost. "This has been specified a wakeup telephone for me," she added. "And I anticipation to each of you, to emotion and support the tegument you're in."
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