![]() 'Shopping for our wives!' Prince Harry and friend Nacho Figueras pose in women's sunglasses as they buy gifts to take home from Tokyo - while Meghan Markle 'enjoys girls' night out at Taylor Swift concert in LA' (despite the singer 'snubbing her podcast').We tend to stick with the procedures that have a longer track record and that are more tried and proven."ĭan and the rest of Jessica's family is remembering her as a loving mother, wife, and daughter - who loved her job, family and life. "We just don't have a long-enough track record with SMILE yet for our practice to feel comfortable performing it. The end-goal is the same, but how we get there is very, very different," Adelson said. "They're two entirely different procedures, very different approaches. Todd Adelson at LasikPlus says SMILE is too risky for their office to try the new operation. For some people it works that way but for others it doesn't."ĭr. I think it's, a lot of times positioned as this is something super simple: you get it done on a Friday and you get it done and you go back on a Monday. "This isn't a different procedure where - where you're getting lip injections and if it's botched you can get it corrected. We have to remember that we have two eyes and this is probably one of the most important senses that we have," Dan said. "It's positioned as if you're going in to get a cavity filled. Lasik has been around for 20 years while SMILE has only been around for two. SMILE is said to be different and less invasive. SMILE is different than the more common Lasik surgery that people like Tiger Woods have had done. She felt like the procedure, something had gone wrong or her body had reacted to the procedure in a non-normal way," Dan said. "She had a procedure on October 11, and I would say within less than three or four days she started to indicate to me and her family that she felt like something was wrong. She left behind a suicide note of more than 30 pages for Dan. Jessica Starr's husband talks about mental health toll of surgery complicationsĭan believes Jessica planned on taking her own life for several weeks before she did on December 12th. ![]() Remembering FOX 2 meteorologist Jessica Starr "We want to try to help somebody," he said. He's urging anyone who plans to have any kind of surgery to know their risks - both physically and mentally - before the operation. It's scary."ĭan is now focused on their two young children, Noah and Riley, but also on helping someone else. "In hindsight, I think she was telling me she was having a neurological problem and I don't think she even understood what was going on with her body and her mind and her eyes. I'm not visualizing things like I used to,'" Dan said. "She looked at me and she said, 'Dan, it's like my eyes and my brain aren't communicating like they used to. ![]() He said she progressively became more upset after the pain didn't improve. They're almost a video diary," he said.ĭan broke his silence Wednesday in a wide-ranging interview with FOX 2. She talked about her vision on that specific day. She was using them to compare how her recovery was going. "I don't think she had any intention for them to be shared, they were for her. In her own words, she said it was becoming too much. Jessica was suffering from chronic dry eye and blurry vision - complications from the surgery. The videos, which you can watch parts of in the player above, were taken weeks apart and show her growing frustration. ![]() Jessica Starr's husband opens up about her suicide, eye surgery complications I can see but I can't see and it's been 6 weeks of hell," Jessica said. She said she had been praying to her grandparents but they weren't answering. "I went and I wasted money - for what? For what? For nothing." I don't know why - I was fine in contacts glasses weren't that big of a deal. I have a lot of emotions, a lot of feelings going on, I am really mad at myself for doing this. "I don't know, I am kind of frustrated, upset, regret. In the last video she shot in November, 5 weeks after the surgery, Jessica said she couldn't sleep but had some minor relief from her doctor with some plugs put in, as she pointed to the corner of her eyes. She indicates herself that the surgery did change her life - but now how she wanted. The videos journal Jessica's struggles in the weeks between October 11, when she had SMILE done, and December 12th, when she ended her life. ![]()
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