A mother of two and Indianapolis business owner has died in the Dominican Republic after having a botched plastic surgery procedure. Her family says the island doctors were not forthcoming with her care of the family, nor did they immediately reveal what caused the woman to die.
Shacare Terry, the proprietor of a children’s daycare facility called Minnie Blessings in Paradise, went to the island on Monday, April 11, with her childhood friend Carlesha Williams to get a Brazilian butt lift (BBL) — a process where fat is transferred from one part of the body to augment the size and shape of the buttocks without implants — and another body-sculpting procedure by Dr. Jose Desena at Instituto Medico San Lucas.
Terry’s family says her condition worsened instead of improving during her recovery from surgery, with her health deteriorating until she could not breathe on her own, eventually dying while being treated.
An autopsy performed in the DR stated she expired due to pulmonary edema, cerebral edema, and respiratory failure. Edema is a swelling caused by fluid being trapped in body tissue.
The family says the autopsy is incomplete, believing the woman also had sepsis, an extreme response to infection as a result of the surgery.
A GoFundMe set up by the family says Terry was sent to the recovery home on April 14 but taken back to the clinic the next day.
This 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 her loved ones.
Her first trip was in December. She had traveled to Mexico to get a bariatric surgery. Family members say she had struggled with her weight, and the quick nip and tuck in the Dominican Republic provided a fast way to achieve 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.”
She continued to tell WKBN, “Being a big girl at a young age is always not good.”
Terry was not happy about a surgery she’d had in the past to create the perfect shape post-childhood, and post-pregnancy. She believed 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.”
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