Teddi Mellencamp is updating her Instagram followers and revealing some of her battle scars.
, sharing that her doctors discovered an abnormality during a routine skin check.
"I got the call this morning: Stage 2 melanoma. Now, next Wednesday I go to an oncologist to have it cut out and come up with a game plan on next steps," she continued."Of course, this is all pending some additional testing and biopsies of other spots nearby that were taken today." "If a doctor says, 'come in every 3 months' please go in every 3 months," she wrote. "I so badly wanted to blow this off. 'What could happen in 3 months?' I thought. Apparently a lot."Mellencamp explained that she has continued to share her health journey because,"I was a 90s teen, putting baby oil and iodine on my skin to tan it. Never wearing sunscreen or getting my moles checked until I was 40 years old.
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