The circumstances surrounding Jessica Starr’s suicide in December were discussed by her husband and mother in a national television appearance. They believe the meteorologist died as a result of difficulties she had after laser eye surgery.
“There was nothing else that we can attribute it to,” Dan Rose, Starr’s husband, said on ABC’s “Good Morning America” on Wednesday.
Starr committed herself in December 2018, almost two months after she had surgery to improve her eyesight. She was 35 at the time. Paula Faris of ABC News quotes Rose as saying that Starr realized “something was not right” after the incident.
“She started to complain of incredibly dry eyes. She had almost no night vision. She had starbursts that she was seeing during the day and at night,” said Rose.
Jessica Starr Illness Reveals
Starr contacted a therapist shortly before her death, according to the study. Starr’s family, according to Faris, knew in retrospect that she had developed depression.
She has been having problems eating and sleeping, according to her mother Carol Starr, who spoke to “GMA” and voiced skepticism that her daughter’s health will improve. Her mother and spouse both saw that she was becoming more reclusive.
“Her family says she was a completely different person after the surgery,” said Faris. “They’re going to choose to remember her as the warm, fun-loving, gregarious wife, mother and friend and sister that she was.”
A popular TV news personality stated on Facebook that she was still experiencing difficulties from her October 2018 treatment only days before her death on December 12.
Starr remarked in one of the films documenting her experiences following surgery, “I do still need all the prayers and the well-wishes because it’s a hard go.”
Jessica Starr got a more recent procedure called SMILE (short incision lenticule extraction) that is similar to Lasik. According to a December 18 report in the Detroit Free Press, the procedure was first done in Michigan last year after receiving FDA approval in 2016.
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Dr. John Vukich, head of the Refractive Surgery Clinical Committee of the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery, has said that the SMILE operation is “fundamentally the same” as Lasik, and both are quite safe.
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A 27-year-old veteran committed suicide after undergoing Lasik, and a Cleveland kindergarten teacher had to have a pain pump implanted in her abdomen to deal with ongoing eye pain, both of which were highlighted in a 2018 New York Times article about the risks of laser eye surgery.
Clinical data on SMILE demonstrates that sight-compromising problems are exceedingly uncommon, occurring in fewer than 1 percent of patients, according to the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery, a source referenced by the “GMA” study. There have been more than 1.5 million SMILE surgeries so far.
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