{"id":70432,"date":"2025-07-17T17:21:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T17:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/70432\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T17:21:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T17:21:10","slug":"my-friend-teddi-mellencamp-glamour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/70432\/","title":{"rendered":"My Friend Teddi Mellencamp | Glamour"},"content":{"rendered":"

Your Revved Ted has mellowed out quite a bit, I must say.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I know. It\u2019s so weird.<\/p>\n

Nanushka coat; Melinda Maria jewelry<\/p>\n

How can others show up for people in their lives after they get a challenging health diagnosis?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I never love when people say \u201cwe\u201d when it\u2019s involving me and being sick. Like, \u201cWe are going to get through this.\u201d When somebody would text me and ask a question, that felt like work. \u201cHow are you?\u201d felt like work to me to respond. But if somebody said, \u201cHey, Ted, love you. Thinking about you. Here if you need me,\u201d I was so happy to respond to that because it didn\u2019t feel like pressure.<\/p>\n

Yeah, you did not like being asked questions, especially when you were in the hospital. That was when you were peak Revved Ted.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Peak Revved Ted was also on steroids.<\/p>\n

After you\u2019d just had your surgery and were on steroids, we had to remind each other\u2014your support group\u2014that we were going to get our feelings hurt sometimes. That you wouldn\u2019t always be in a good mood, and steroids can make you feel angry or aggressive. And then I spent the night there, and you woke up and looked at me and said, \u201cWhat are you still doing here?\u201d And I was like, \u201cI don\u2019t want to be here either, Ted!\u201d I was like, Uh-oh, I\u2019m getting my feelings hurt\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yet the day before I thought I had solved the Scott Peterson case.<\/p>\n

So maybe we should warn people about that\u2014just tell your friends, \u201cI may not be that nice all the time, but I still love you.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s so true. I\u2019ve almost blocked out those types of things that I was doing because some of it I truly don\u2019t remember. In my mind, I was in the hospital for three days. How long was I there? Nineteen days?<\/p>\n

It was a long time. It felt like you pretty much lived there.<\/strong><\/p>\n

An amazing thing that you and our friend Jen suggested, that changed a lot for me, was to integrate me back into real life. Instead of going directly from the hospital back to the house, I stayed elsewhere and had the kids come to me. I think if I hadn\u2019t done that, I would’ve gone right back to all of my old habits. I compare it to when I got out of the Big Brother house. I felt so turned around, like, I have to do 1 million things because I haven’t talked to people in four weeks. I needed to slow down, and that forced me to. I\u2019m really grateful for it.<\/p>\n

You also were concerned about your kids and parents seeing you while you still had those staples. It was sort of like, Let\u2019s ease them into it and have them visit when you were feeling at your best.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I was worried about my kids seeing me and me not being able to remember certain things or not being able to have the same type of conversations we used to have. And then, I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s vanity or human nature, but there was a part of me that was concerned about my physical appearance in regards to seeing my friends or going out in public. I still work on it, and there\u2019s moments where I feel shame, like, Wow, this is as good as it’s going to get today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your Revved Ted has mellowed out quite a bit, I must say. I know. It\u2019s so weird. Nanushka…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":70433,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[25666,25667,185,171,23399,67,132,68,1940],"class_list":{"0":"post-70432","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-_sensitivecontent","9":"tag-_syndication_noshow","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-splitscreenimagerightfullbleed","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us","16":"tag-web"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114869730466935890","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}