Detroit TV Meteorologist Jessica Starr Died by Hanging, Medical Examiner Says.
https://www.thewrap.com/detroit-tv-meteorologist-jessica-starr-death-by-suicide/
She got tired of waiting for her life to get back to normal so she killed herself?
Something is not right there.
I guess entitlement mentality can leave you with a lot of issues when life doesn’t end up perfect like you think you deserve.
I know husbands don’t matter at all these days. But that’s very uncool to abandon her two kids.
SECOND THREAD on this!
SECOND THREAD on this!
LASIK surgery is foolish,IMO.There so much that can go wrong...and it’s simply about glasses.
Did she have info that could have indicted Hillary Clinton?
Bet that clinic won’t advertise on the station anymore.
Had RK(LASIK predecessor) in 1993.
Was great for 9 years then started having trouble with near vision.
Hard to get a good eyeglass prescription now.
Regret ever having it done.
I had a close friend develop severe visual blurring
from a LASIK procedure, and went suicidal.
After failing treatment with medicines,
he underwent ECT and eventually got his act back together.
The fear of going blind can be VERY real
I had Lasik in 2001. Then I endured 6 months of dry eyes and starry night vision which gradually disappeared. Not pleasant but not anywhere close to driving me to suicide.
During the last 17 years of perfect vision, I have felt that it was a great decision. Was there pain and frustration at first? Yes, but worth it all.
Something else had to be going on in her life.
So sad and ironically on the feast day of St. Lucy.
Prayers for Jessica and her family.
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An airline pilot had the eye surgery.......but they did not take into account the circumference of the pupil ...
a necessary element to direct the laser properly.
He ended up with very flawed vision....and had to quit his beloved job.
Wow — I was afraid of that surgery anyway.
Now I feel justified in my fear.
There you have it, young, affluent, bright, beautiful, yet so fragile she apparently would rather be dead and abandon her husband and innocent, needful children than have one little thing wrong in her life; namely, having to wear glasses. I won't judge her. Someone infinitely more fearsome than me will be doing that, and judging all of us, soon enough. All I will do is ask Him to please, please Father, have mercy on her poor tormented soul, and please forgive her.
Surgery is no joke. Things can go wrong. If it's life and death, okay, you're forced into it. Otherwise, think long and hard about it, and never for frivolous reasons.
I just had PRK surgery in August. I waited for over a decade to do a LASIK procedure simply because I was afraid of my eyes being damaged.
I had very nearsighted vision, <-8. basically I was legally blind without very strong glasses.
I talked to dozens of people who had their eyes fixed & decided to spend top dollar at the best place in the city for the surgery. They informed me it would take time to heal. It took much longer than I expected.
First PRK is for people with thin corneas or very severe nearsightedness. Instead of creating a flap in the cornea, the top layer of the cornea is burned off by laser reshaped & after healing 20/20 or better vision is established.
I was very disappointed for several months. The pain was very bad for the first few days & m vision took a long time to settle down. Healing took much longer than I had expected.
I am now pretty happy with the outcome. I need reading glasses, but I can see better than ever for far distances.
I would caution everyone that we live about an arms length from our eyes what with computer screens & phones.
Maybe she was very very nearsighted.
I used to be so nearsighted that I could never be corrected to 20/50. Always had to get a special dispensation to drive. Every doctor I had told me DO NOT let anyone talk you into LASIK. You are not a candidate. I never did.
I finally got to the point where I got cataracts and couldn’t drive legally at all before I allowed surgery. I got one eye done, then later the other.
I always wonder why, if your lenses can be replaced so easily and you can then have vision so much improved that it is truly miracle like, why all cripplingly nearsighted folks shouldn’t be offered the opportunity to have this lens replacement procedure done as small children . Life changing. Future enhancing.
This is the first time I have heard of anyone having adverse reaction to LASIK. I had it done. I had fantastic results, thank God.
What hit me was when he said every morning he'd get up, look in the mirror, and tell himself "you ruined your life". I canceled my appointment and have been on contact lenses and glasses ever since. I just could not get past what that man said to the mirror and imagining the excruciating pain he endured. And, now I wonder if it was the same man who just committed suicide recently.
I'm nearsighted with 20/300 vision and have been wearing glasses since I was 8 and contacts since I was 20. (I'm within three months of hitting 60.) Lasik sounded good over the years, but the expense and the risk made me conclude that contacts during the day and glasses (eventually) at night were a winning combo that should continue. It's never bothered to me to stick my fingers in my eyes to put in contacts as some people describe it. I guess my vanity outweighs those considerations or simply years of watching the Stooges makes me immune to such worries.
In any event, it became an especially winning combo three years ago when my eye doctor suggested changing one of my contacts from -5.00 to -3.00 to create monovision where one eye is the reading eye and the other is the distance eye. Man, that still tickles me not to have to use granny glasses to read. Not that I had any issue using the grannies and still use them for really detailed work, but it's great to pick up something and just be able to read it. As well, being nearsighted with the glasses gives me a detail view when I take them off and put myself close to things.
Maybe I'm really fortunate in my combo, but I don't have any incentive to mess with this at all. I'm not passing judgment on anyone, just my experience.
Results of Lasik surgery are NOT 100% predictable.
People need to be fully aware of that before making their decision. It’s a great blessing to many, but things can and do go wrong.