Overview
- An urgent care clinician directed her to the ER, where doctors identified Stevens-Johnson syndrome tied to a newly prescribed medication.
- She described severe symptoms with painful sores, blisters in her mouth and around her eyes, and an inability to swallow at one point.
- Hospital staff treated her with injectable steroids and antibiotics and kept her for close monitoring before symptoms improved.
- She was discharged in time to celebrate daughter Dove’s sixth birthday, a milestone she had been determined not to miss after last year.
- Mellencamp says recent scans showed no detectable cancer, though she remains a stage 4 melanoma patient continuing immunotherapy.