Thanks To Plastic Surgery, NJ Woman Can't Close Her Eyes

Marilyn Leisz (via CBS)

Bad plastic surgery doesn't just happen to Sly Stallone: a NJ woman says an eyelid procedure gone wrong is the reason she can no longer close her eyes. Marilyn Leisz is suing Dr. Paul Parker for negligence for her eyes-stuck-wide-open surgery. “All the favorite things I used to, like tennis, racquetball, swimming, horseback riding, bike riding, skeet shooting, gardening, I can’t do those things,” Leisz told CBS.

Leisz admits that she had had several plastic surgery operations prior to the eyelid operation. She said she went to Parker, a Bergen County plastic surgeon, to correct bumps on her eyelids from a cosmetic procedure performed by another doctor. But the married mother of two claims she wasn't warned of the risks, and was told later by another doctor that she wasn’t a good candidate for this surgery because she had had too many other procedures. Now, she can't fully close her eyes, even when she sleeps: "…To blink I really have to really squeeze my eyes to…fully close my eyes.” She has to use gel at night, and a vaporizer so she doesn’t scratch her eyes; she is losing her eyesight as well.

In the pantheon of botched plastic surgery procedures, this is definitely up there with four breasted lady. But maybe this is some sort of existential crisis made real—after all, some might say that hell is being in a room with other people without ever blinking.

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By Ben Yakas in News on March 30, 2011 7:25 PM

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ANGRYGOD11

Every plastic surgeon requires every patient to sign at least a couple of stacks of waivers before any work is done. If that wasn't clear enough to her, too bad.

Guest

“All the favorite things I used to, like tennis, racquetball, swimming, horseback riding, bike riding, skeet shooting, gardening, I can’t do those things,”

Sounds like a tampon commercial. Stupid bitch should have let nature takes its course, but no, her vanity got the best of her.

Minabee

At least she'll go into any future surgeries with her eyes open. HEY-O!!!

wobblesmith

you mean if i continually have unecessary surgery performed on my face and body, something undesirable might happen? i don't have an imagination, so i'll need you to be more specific. and if, in your specificity, you don't mention a side-effect from which i eventually suffer, i will sue you like crazy. because i am a cunt.

brooklynRick

can she get another operation to fix her eyes? What about fixing her demented need to look "better" though surgery, do you think thats fixed now?

yetanotherdamneduselessaccount

It's tough to think of anything more fitting to say than "you fucking dumbass".

Guest

She's totally high.

PicoPhreako69

o__0

Why am I strongly reminded of Ramses II's mummy when I look at her picture?
Also, ew.

DC

waitress ill have what shes having!

Mark B

Vanity has a price, doesn't it, stupid?

Rocknrope

Is that her O-face?

GothamExtremist

Who gave it to her? You?! Damn you ARE good! You sur know how to work that tongue!

Thomas C.

Skeet shooting? She has to sleep with her god damned eyes open, and she's worried about never being able to shoot skeet? Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?

On the other hand, she looks young and pretty and had no crows' feet for her court date.

Matt F.

Is she 18-0 at Wrestlemania?

Bugenhagen

She's got Bette Davis eyes!

justthinkin

I could see sleeping being a problem (and they make shades for that) but why would this interfere with any other aspect of her daily life? She can still blink, right? Talk about the blind leading the sighted.