Pennsylvania cop died by suicide after suffering nightmare complications from Lasik eye surgery

A young Pennsylvania police officer took his own life after he suffered from side effects caused by elective eye surgery, according to his family.Ryan Kingerski, 26, took time off from his job at the Penn Hills Police Department in August to undergo the popular eye surgery, LASIK, in hopes it would improve his vision, his grieving parents, Tim and Stefanie Kingerski, told CBS News Tuesday.However, he began suffering from painful side effects, including headaches, double vision, seeing dark spots and floaters — tiny spots that appear as streaks or cobweb-like shapes across a person’s field of vision, they said.His parents said their son was “full of regret,” and they tried finding specialists in hopes of locating some remedy to help with his pain, but nothing was helping.The young police officer then killed himself in January — five months after the surgery.“He left us a note that said, ‘I can’t take this anymore.LASIK took everything from me.’ That’s the note that we got left,” his dad told CBS News.“That’s what we were left with,” his heartbroken mother added.The cop was “witty, charming, smart” and had a passion for police work from a young age, his parents said.

He followed in his father’s footsteps, and along with his twin brother Jacob, they both became cops.When Kingerski eventually told his parents that he wanted to undergo the surgery, they said they were more worried about the dangers he faced on the street as a police officer.“We had no thought of that,” his mother said, with Tim adding they believed LASIK was a “simple and effective, routine surgery” that would have him “back to work in a couple of days.”However, their son never returned to duty.“It just … it ruined his life.Ruined it.

Completely ruined his life in 12 seconds,” Tim told WTAE News.Kingerski’s parents said the pain of losing their son is unimaginable — and decided to share his story with others before they consider undergoing LASI...