Disastrous and sad Upper & Lower Eyelid Surgery (Blepharoplasty) - Calgary, AB

Unfortunately, this procedure at Dr. Perron clinic, has absolutely destroyed my ability to live normally and causes me almost daily agony and sadness! I now need an ocular surgeon/specialist to correct the damage done to my Left eye! I truly suffer, this is no way to live… It’s such a horrible existence with my eyelid like this now! My left eye will not shut properly anymore which means it dries out at night but that’s not the worst of it! I lint and hair are constantly getting in my eye at night it has turned into a complete medical fiasco! I have to pull down my eyelid or pull up my eyelid sometimes for hours with a 10 times magnifying mirror and eyelash cleaning tips and dig in my eyes and sometimes with tweezers trying to dig out lint and hair! I can do this for hours a day! Just imagine that hours every day… These little hairs/fibres off of blankets, clothing, jackets, random lint from the dryer… feel like a little razor blades and if their cat hairs the way they feel is torture once in your eyeball and you’re trying to get it out! As a result of trying to deal with this medical issue every day for years there is hollowing under my left eye now and it’s sagging. I have so much “ageing” (damage aesthetically) on my left eye where I do not have it on my right eye because of trying to get hair off my iris or lint off my eyeball - as this means pulling down on my eyelid for hours day after day, month after month, for years! I did reach out a number of times to Dr.Perrons office, and was so upset by the treatment and response I received… Brenda, tried to blame it on my thyroid and said my eyelid wasn’t shutting because my eyeball is bulging and stopping my eye from shutting! When you have thyroid issues, which I do not, it affects both eyeballs… I also don’t have anything wrong with my thyroid as I have no thyroid! I’m on a regular dose of thyroid medicine every day from thyroid cancer treatment where they take it out… But if I was having some sort of thyroid issues it affects both eyes not one! I have reached out as I mentioned a number of times and have been treated like I was a nuisance, “what do I expect them to do? my surgery was so long ago!”… Brenda says! I was hoping for some support, some advice, some guidance… The office has left my life negatively impacted by this surgery! It’s not a normal reaction, I had a rare complication that’s known to rarely happen! I was not informed about this complication, I had to find out about it on my own from seeing different plastic surgeons in seek of help to fix this but no one can do it and I need an ocular surgeon now to correct this damage! Dr. Perron had eye surgery which kept him out of his office for a good nine months or maybe even one year… Brenda said he would probably like to fix it himself but he’s not in his office for nearly a year at that point, so the best she can do is refer me out somewhere else! No support, no guidance I’m in this on my own, suffering, truly! At least 2 to 3 times a day I am caught up for a half an hour trying to dig in my eye with a light, the 10 times magnifying glass and these little almost Q-tip type of things… But it’s absolutely normal for me to get stuck during one of these sessions for up to three hours digging in my eye! I will cry and just weep with sadness… How can anyone live like this? I have purchased everything from my chambers, sleeping masks I patches, I masks I tape, you name it… If I’m very diligent and always sleep with my eye perfectly tightly covered… I can usually be OK for a short while! But because my eye never fully closes without intentional effort… During the day random things that are floating in the air, are getting in my eyeball as well Dash there’s nothing and nowhere safe to go away from lint and hair getting in my eye! I can no longer get my eyelashes done because now I can’t even have my eyes touched… Can no longer be around the family cats! Whenever I get Botox around my eye it will no longer shut at all for several hours after… Seems to be nerve damage done perhaps? What else would cause that I’m not sure I tried to stick to the facts but I’m emotional, I’m so sad… What I’ve described doesn’t even cover slightly the agony I go through on a daily basis. Getting the hairs out of my eye, which can be up to 10 at once… Can take hours but you suffer the whole time! I’m suffering because when the hair is in my eye it hurts so much and it’s so itchy especially if it’s laying across my eyeball, and across my Iris which you can’t see you just have to somehow get it off! So it’s a two in one pain… Getting the hair out and suffering while it’s in. It’s become a problem while driving as well… If there’s a hair that happens to be on my eye when I’m driving this is not safe as it’s so uncomfortable and takes my attention I just want my eye to close again I want the damage all around my eye fixed I was just trying to stay pretty like everyone else and honestly this has dominated so much of my life for the past two years I’m so sad I hate this! I was so excited to see Dr. Perron too.. he was my dream and my goal surgeon since I was in my 20s and first heard about him… But I was so poor I had nothing and could never afford to get the things I want it done back then! As soon as I got to the stage where I could afford to do these things and wanted to improve myself I went straight to him… I spent about 15 years knowing that when I wasn’t poor anymore and I got myself together he was the man I was going to see… And in the end and left with sadness and a life-changing issue that I don’t know if it can be repaired! The other plastic surgeon I saw said there’s a chance I could get fixed… A chance, just a chance! I will have to see in ocular surgeon and I hope this can be fixed otherwise, I don’t know how I will live my life like this! I hate to leave this review, but I have to face what I’ve not wanted to face all these years… The situation is really bad and my hopes and quality of life are hanging on this ocular surgeons appointment! God only knows what it will cost to fix this but I guess that’s part of it… You have to make that decision when you get plastic surgery it just really is a sad situation! I might as well tell the truth about my experience during my experience with this procedure at this office, as I’ve had three different revisions on my left eye, so it didn’t really go that well! First of all, I did not sedate very well and so I basically was awake and talking and even feeling some of the pokes while having it done… I tried to tell the plastic surgeon assistant before surgery that I i’ve had a number of experiences were maybe I don’t freeze very well or medicines work differently on me and she didn’t want to hear it… And of course while I was being operated on I was awake for a lot of it talking and I guess being annoying as the plastic surgeons assistant told me she “wished I would just shut up” Well, I wish I would have just shut up too but I can’t control myself when I’m on the legal limit of sedation drugs, which is what they gave me because I was having a hard time staying asleep during surgery… How could she say this? I wish I could control myself while I was whacked out on that sedation medicine during surgery… I’m humiliated from talking like that and all the crap I probably said. I was on sedation drugs! And they gave me she said four times more than they would’ve given a 200 pound man! Geez can’t you give me a little slack while I’m on that much drugs? I also had to go back in because my eyes were completely different… One turned out perfectly and so beautiful with the blepharoplasty, and the other eye, barely looked like it had changed… Again, nothing against the doctor at this point I feel like people have to get revisions with plastic surgeries so that’s fine although what I was looking for on the left eye to match the right I never was completed and I don’t want a fourth revision! Especially since that’s the eye that won’t shut! Despite everyone telling me to lawyer up or advocate for myself I never have, I’m ashamed… I really looked up to this doctor and this clinic and was a goal for many many many years… I just wish they would at least reach out and tell me who’s the best person in the city to see to get this fixed… They don’t care even! I’m dealing with this on my own it’s so sad. I cannot sleep with normal blankets or sheets anymore… In fact for the past nine months I don’t even sleep with a blanket anymore I just use a satin sheet and I have to replace it every month when it starts to get the fibres loose because they will get in my eye at night. Have to lint roll my bed and pillows and clothes all the time trying to get hairs and dust and lint off Absolutely must sleep with a bonnet now at night so that little strands of hair or whatever does not get in my eye from my hair at night Entire life changed… Could never just sleep over at my boyfriends or anyone else’s house without great effort… Must bring my own king size sheet to lay over their stuff, lint rollers and Sporley to constantly brush my face and get any hair that could be on off! Surely the plastic surgeons office must know what I’m suffering with… They have not never seen this before… Why would they leave me like this and not even give me any help? And now I have to try and advocate for myself which I don’t want to do I’m ashamed and embarrassed and don’t need the stress. I just want this suffering to end… I was just trying to be pretty and enjoy myself and got a little procedure! I did leave another review less than a month after the original procedure when I was still healing… Should not have left that review I was still healing, still had bruises when I left that review… I was just happy to make it through surgery as that was my first cosmetic procedure and I was nervous! During Covid I had another revision and had paid for breast implants with the same office… While talking to Brenda about the breast implants she was so mean and rude to me… And although I’ve seen horrific feedback for her, I had never experienced that with her at that point! She had always been lovely up until that point… I was a little nervous about the breast implants and asking some questions and she cut me off angrily and said if I do all this and then circled her hand around in the air, as if I was making a big stink, and said” if you do all this they’ll cancel surgery and kick you out!” I said, oh I’m sorry do what? I’m just nervous and was asking questions and she snapped back and said you weren’t this nervous last time you had surgery you didn’t act like this… I said act like what I’m confused I was just nervous and asking a question I wasn’t even making a statement that could be missed construed into something snappy… It was just a normal standard questions?! So I cancelled that surgery… Why would I go and be sedated and operated on when I’m being spoken to so poorly? I did not feel safe or comfortable I will update again once I see the ocular surgeon and no more! Please keep me in your positive thoughts… I’m hoping this can be corrected and this suffering! The photos I have attached are of surgery although I will update later today or later this week with pictures now to show the damage that has been done digging in my eye trying to get out hair! In addition, I have gone from better than 2020 vision to now needing glasses and of course, left eye worse than right… Who would want to deal with this fiasco? It’s so sad and discouraging.

This photo, is how I have to sleep sometimes… I have my eye taped and sealed so that hair and lint cannot get in.

My eye still will not stay shut even though it’s taped it is open even under the tape I cannot keep my eye shut!

I have been suffering terribly because of this procedure and the known rare complications that I was unfortunate enough to receive when I had this done!

Absolute disastrous sad experience… Please review my new review for anyone wanting this procedure done! You need to be fully informed so you don’t suffer the way I have!

If my new review is not approved under my profile, I will update this review with the full details of the suffering and damage that I’m living with…

And if anyone who could see this, has any advice or suggestions for me please send me a DM as I am obviously really interested in any help on dealing with this! I’m looking into whether I can find some sort of industrial strength I wash machine(as I’ve bought all the little ones you can get off of Amazon and they don’t work) or something that can help me at all… Definitely open to any suggestions.