Teddi Mellencamp Arroyave said she still has at least another year of immunotherapy ahead of her as she keeps up scans and doctor visits in her Stage 4 cancer treatment. She said she is going for another round and scans on Tuesday, adding a fresh update to a fight she says is still very much underway.

The timing matters because the update comes a little over a year after her brain surgery, and it puts a clearer horizon on what has already been a long medical stretch. Mellencamp has been open about the treatment process before, but this is the first time she has paired the ongoing immunotherapy with a specific timeline that reaches well into next year.

That same week, on April 29, she turned to Instagram to talk about something far less clinical but still tied to the aftermath of her surgeries: her hair. Mellencamp said her hair has grown since the brain surgeries, but it is now too long for the wigs she has been using, and she said she is tired of them. She joked that she is at the point where she has the same hairstyle as Cruz, her 11-year-old son, and does not have enough “rizz” for it.

On April 30, Cruz Arroyave showed up in a video trying to help style her hair, and Mellencamp said he thought he could fix the problem but ended up making her look like one of the Paul brothers. The family moment was light, but it sat beside a harder truth: she said she is grateful for the support she keeps receiving, yet she is also scared about her health and still facing scans, treatment and the uncertainty that comes with Stage 4 cancer.

The practical answer for now is that the treatment is not ending soon. Mellencamp said she will remain on immunotherapy for at least another year, and the next checkpoint is Tuesday’s scans, which should give her doctors — and her family — a clearer picture of where things stand.