Meet my Friend, Patient Advocate & Four-time Breast Cancer Fighter

This is Terlisa Sheppard. Terlisa is my friend. She is also a patient advocate and four-time breast cancer fighter. Terlisa and I met this past summer at the Project LEAD Institute graduate program along with other amazing patient advocates. I was blessed to see her again in December of 2017 at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium (SABCS) and we put it on our schedule and committed to make this video together. I will visit this blog frequently to listen to her Journey of being a young mother diagnosed with breast cancer and now living daily with the disease. Meet my friend, patient advocate, and four-time breast cancer fighter.

Are you inspired? I think you should be, I really do. To know cancer is in your body in various organs and continue to look at life with a blessed, grateful disposition is nothing short of God-given, super-human constitution. I am and am honored to call her my friend. Standing next to her, you can feel the warmth of her smile radiating through the room.

Friends and Patient Advocates

We stood by Terlisa at a silent awareness campaign at SABCS to support her and to encourage research and more clinical trials for the metastatic community. With us is another friend, fellow LEAD graduate, and patient advocate, Kirstin Litz. We feel our time and voices matter to other breast cancer patients. Patient advocacy commitment can be in the form of support, comfort, research, and hours spent supporting our communities. We are bonded by a breast cancer diagnosis and survivor-ship.

These women, these patient advocates are not only friends, they are my inspiration. I would like you to listen to Terlisa’s story in this video. I can’t add anything else to this blog that will inspire you more than her Journey from breast cancer through breast reconstruction and patient advocacy. She did hit a home-run!

Disclaimer

References made to my surgical group, surgeon and healthcare team are made because they are aligned with my values and met my criterion after I did research of their practices and success rates. Any other healthcare provider that displays the same skill, compassion education and outreach to patients will be given consideration and recognition on this website.  The information contained on this website is not a substitute for or should be construed as medical advice. Please consult a licensed physician for medical advice.