Her story was profiled on an episode of 60 Minutes in 2018, and in a feature-length documentary film –The Unknown Upside, about her surgeries and subsequent treatments which premiered in March 2019.
[2] It took two years[3] for doctors to correctly diagnose her with spastic diplegia, which is a form of cerebral palsy.
[5] In December 2016, Lombardo's parents elected to take her to St. Louis Children's Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri to undergo a selective dorsal rhizotomy surgery to potentially improve her ability to walk and to reduce pain.
[7] In July 2018, Lombardo was taken to the BIOSS clinic in Monterrey, Mexico to undergo an experimental bone marrow stem cell surgery.
[8] In March 2019, a documentary film directed by Tim Skinner – The Unknown Upside, chronicled Lombardo's story, where she was screened for the first time.