Indianapolis Woman Passed Away After Botched BBL In the Dominican Republic, Months After Getting a Mexican Gastric Bypass Surgery
However, the family says the autopsy is incomplete, they believe the woman had sepsis, an extreme response to infection as a result of the surgery. A GoFundMe created by the family says Terry was sent to the recovery home on April 14 but taken back to the clinic the next day.
The trip was the 31-year-old’s second trip to a foreign country to have plastic surgery done on her body in four months, according to the family members.
The first trip was in December when she went to Mexico to get a bariatric surgery. Family members say she struggled with her weight, and the surgery in the Dominican Republic provided a fast way to get the results she wanted.
Tammy Brewer, Terry’s mother, said, “She’s been having a hard time because she just wasn’t like a normal kid sometimes and always wanted to be better but got picked on because of her size and things like that.”
Terry was not happy about the first surgery and thought the only place this could get done was on the island.
“She had some butt implants put in before, and no one here would do it, and he said he can take these out and such and such and he needs more money,” Brewer said. “He wanted, I think, four or five thousand more dollars.”
Terry’s aunt, Nicole Baker, told WXIN how Terry was excited about her new body. “She talked about the liposuction and the tummy tuck and just the excess skin you have from weight loss,” she said.
“A friend of hers, the girl who also had surgery, said they had took $20,000 down there each because they were told to bring cash, so she did say that, that she had $20,000 and her surgery was [$17,000] and to stay in the recovery home was [$1,500],” the aunt said.
“The person who went down there with her who had the surgery was essentially her caretaker. She made a post that she was hired to take care of two girls.”
The mother said after the operation, two days into her trip, she FaceTimed her daughter and noticed she was lethargic during the call. She said she planned to get to her daughter because, she believed something was wrong.
“Mind you, I didn’t know nothing about them, I didn’t speak Spanish,” the mother said. “I called the U.S. Embassy because my concern was, ‘Can you go check on my daughter because I think she needs a higher level of care than what they’re giving her?’”
Terry’s twin sister Sharae also FaceTimed Terry and knew something was wrong. “I knew something wasn’t right. I knew it in my heart,” she told WRTV.
Sharae contends her sister was healthy before her April trip.
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