"I stayed shut inside my home for these past eight years. When you are sick, you isolate yourself and the face is what you see first." Before growing a new nose, doctors had tried giving Cecile skin grafts to replace lost tissue, but those died off. She was also given prosthetics, but struggled to keep them in place. It was then that surgeons Dr Agnes Dupret-Bories and Dr Benjamin Valerie asked if she'd be interested in re-growing the nose.