Is this successful eye surgery?

Nor had I spoken to any individuals who wished they had never had the procedure — of which, I have since learned, there are plenty.
On April 13, 2007, I had the surgery. Dr. Belmont’s colleague examined me the next day. My vision was a little blurry, but apparently that was normal. Dr. Belmont said that everything looked good on subsequent visits, too. But the blurriness never went away.
At night, I saw halos around streetlights; neon signs bled; the moon had two rings around it like Saturn. My eyes felt sore, a result of dry eye, which also causes sporadic blurriness.
Dr. Belmont told me that sometimes women of a certain age who are undergoing hormonal changes or who take certain medications get dry eye. It would have been nice if I’d known my advanced age (39) might be problematic before I sat in the chair.
I cut out all prescription and nonprescription pills. Didn’t help. The doctor told me to use Refresh Plus, over-the-counter drops that temporarily help dry eye. The drops cost around $12 a box; I go through two boxes a week. She also prescribed Restasis eye drops, which can help increase tear production. They didn’t for me.
True, I no longer wear glasses. But the 20/20 line on the eye chart is blurry. I can make it out only if I squint, and it takes about a minute to read. My doctor views this as proof of the surgery’s success.
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The above story is from a woman who had eye surgery, and the true story was published after her doctor put it down as being a success ,, did it go on the record as such? As for that matter, there is no national data base to record failures on !! So where do they get the 94 percent success rate? From the woman above?, from me? Horrible system when so many of us can be harmed and these types of doctors keep on going
Protect yourselves,, do not go to these greedy money hungry butchers.. My experience was with Dr Porter and Dr Downing at the Downing McPeak vision center, here in Bowling Green , this is the main body of it. I know what she means, see when I went to Dr Porter , he also told me my surgery was a sucess !! And that the vision would improve,, etc yada yada yada,, then went to one of the owners of the center Dr Downing who tried to " improve " my outcome , which at least they were admitting that I had gotten cme and now my vision went from 20/40 to 20/100 with the likelihood of getting worse !! Not what I consider success Porter and Downing are in Bowling Green KY ,surgery at Glasgow,, at a center they own so that they can be even more greedy and cover up their mistakes even more easily !!!!

Post cancer CT scans

For anyone who is going through this, you know what I mean, my husband had a GIST tumor removed 2 years ago, totally removed, gone, etc, first year he went every 6 months for a scan, now we are doing it every year.
Today was the day, for the last several weeks at least, you start getting anxious, every twitch and pain makes you wonder, yet you really don't talk about it, you don't want to admit that you are scared still.
Today we got up before daylight to drive the 2 hours ( different time zone ) to wait in one waiting area, then get moved to another waiting area, finally drink the contrast, wait some more, then get the scan.
Now you have to waste an hour before the appointment with the doctor.
In the doctors waiting room, a woman walks up and wants to know if you will sign papers to be included in a study since GIST tumor patients are a little rare, now you really ramp up the anxiety level, wonder if she knows something we don't? Does she want to get the signature before we get the bad news?
Finally DR walks into the room, makes small talk , asks how you are doing, you really want to grab him by the neck and scream YES OR NO????
Finally he goes and reads the scan, comes back and says, everything is perfect!!!!!!!!!!!!! YEAHHHHHHHHHHH BREATH!!!!!!!!!!!
We know that in 8 or 9 months we will start building up the anxiety level once again,, but for today, we are happy, we are thankful, we are blessed.

My husbands tumor was larger than normal, sort of small watermelon size, which is one of the aspects they use to determine your risk of it coming back, large is bad,, on the other hand, the other measurement of risk is how " cancerous " it was, in other words, how many cells had divided, his was low, which is good, so will never really be sure he is low risk because of size.
Reducing the stress leading up to your time for another scan?
Keep busy, find something funny, jokes, stories , anything. Go out to eat, go to a movie, don't sit around and think about it!!!
Day of the scan, take a book, magazine , something to do in the waiting areas, something light, funny and entertaining!!!
Above all, have faith. Good Luck.