About Us

The Lemonaid Foundation for Endometriosis is a 501c3 nonprofit organization.  We are a young organization founded on February 2, 2023.    On February 1, 2023, my father - Rev. Dr. Lloyd Preston Terrell, called a family meeting and gave me and each of my siblings a check for $1500.  I used that money to start the Lemonaid Foundation for Endometriosis.  My father passed away seventeen days later, and I see the Lemonaid Foundation as a continuation of his life and legacy of helping others. 

In January 2022, at the age of 44, I was diagnosed with Stage IV endometriosis with a rare form of liver involvement.  On February 8, 2022, I had a nine-hour surgery to remove a grapefruit-sized endometrioma tumor from my liver, and I spent the next seven months recovering from the severe complications of endometriosis. During surgery, a part of my liver, stomach, bowel, and bladder were removed along with my appendix, belly button, right fallopian tube, fibroids, ovarian cysts, and extensive endometriosis.  When I was in the cardiac ICU, I promised God that if he would allow me to live and recover, I would spend the rest of my life advocating for women’s health equity and raising awareness about this destructive disease, so that other women and their families would not have to suffer that way that I did.

What We Do

The Lemonaid Foundation for Endometriosis provides workshops that educate women and the larger community about endometriosis.  We also provide resources through our website, and we host a biweekly virtual support group open to women around the country.  We distribute care packages that contain laundry detergent and feminine care products, as women with endometriosis spend exponentially more on these items as a result of abnormally heavy menstrual bleeding.  We host an annual health fair and conference that educates women on the warning signs of endometriosis, and we partner with other health organizations to provide the community with access to health resources such as COVID tests, blood pressure screening, diabetes, screening, and HIV testing. We also provide a support system for women and their families as they navigate the difficult course of finding endometriosis specialists to treat their condition. 

The Lemonaid Foundation for Endometriosis primarily serves the African-American community, but we extend help to any woman and her family regardless of race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background, or religious belief. We actively work to break down the barriers of distrust that are long-standing in communities of color towards medicine, and we partner with the community to bridge the gap of health disparity that has unfortunately plagued communities of color.