Teddi Mellencamp Details Throwing Up 85 Times Amid Hospitalization
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is holding nothing back.
The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills alum detailed her weekslong hospitalization for multiple brain tumors, revealing what really happened after she underwent emergency surgery in February.
"I was wretched in the hospital," she began on the March 13 episode of her and Tamra Judge's Two Ts In A Pod podcast. "It was a bad 17 days for everyone in my life."
In addition to experiencing "patchy" spots in her memory, Teddi said she was "put on all these medications" with intense side effects.
"I was on a sodium drip," she explained. "They made me take these disgusting sodium pills that I threw up every day."
The 43-year-old continued, "One day, I remember I had just thrown up, like, 85 times from the stupid salt pills."
But that wasn't all. Teddi said she also spent some time with her hands restrained because she "kept wanting to touch" the scars on the back of her head from the surgery.
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"I didn't take the hand restraints well," she shared. "I would try to rip my hands out of them."
Eventually, Teddi was discharged to a hotel with a full-time nurse. There, she learned that doctors discovered more tumors in her head and lungs despite having already removed four from her brain.
'Once I understood," she recalled, "I got really sad."
Teddi is now undergoing immunotherapy and radiation to treat the remaining tumors, which she said makes her feel "absolutely terrible."
"I have the worst headache," she tearfully revealed. "I feel back to how I felt at the beginning."
Still, Teddi—who is the daughter of John Mellencamp and Victoria Granucci—is keeping her head up. As she put it, a nurse recently explained to her that "the fact that you're in pain right now is huge, because it means it's attacking the cancer."
She added of her recovery journey, "I'm feeling really positive."
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