A woman with no hair, eyebrows or eyelashes. A woman who was once referred to as pretty, but now loathed herself when she looked in the mirror. That woman was me.

Roberta Lombardi endured 14 months of treatment for HER 2 positive breast cancer including surgery to remove a tumor and chemotherapy, followed by reconstructive surgery with silicone implants. She couldn’t understand why she felt freezing cold, even indoors, and why she’d experience chest spasms.