A former pharmaceutical sales rep, Deidra is a 3-time cancer survivor. She was diagnosed with melanoma in 1991 at age 32 in 1991. In 2006, she was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma at age 47. Three days before Christmas in 2014 and 12 weeks before the wedding of her son, Pierce, she was diagnosed with hormone-receptor-positive breast cancer in two spots. She had double mastectomy and immediate DIEP flap reconstruction on January 18. She also had nipple reconstruction and tattooing. Her goal was to be able to dance at Pierce’s wedding, and she did. She continues to take an aromatase inhibitor. Deidra is one of three women whose stories are featured in the Breastcancer.org video series on reconstruction after mastectomy. Listen to the podcast to hear Deidra talk about: why she was honored to share her story what she would tell a woman who was recently diagnosed with breast cancer how she felt when she was relating her story on camera what dancing at Pierce’s wedding meant to her

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