A woman in China has been left traumatised after her eyeball was sewn to the corner of her eye during a botched cosmetic surgery which left her with blurred vision, hair loss and depression. On August 17, the woman, surnamed Zhang, from Weifang, Shandong province in eastern China, told Sohu Video about the bungled operation. She underwent the double eyelid surgery at the Weifang Kuiwen Lirendu Medical Beauty Clinic in 2021 It cost her about 30,000 yuan (US$4,200).
Zhang explained that during the operation, she felt discomfort in her eyes and later discovered that her left eyeball and the corner of that eye had been stitched together. “In November 2021, I underwent double eyelid surgery because the outer corners of my eyes were uneven. The doctor said he would make some adjustments, but when he was stitching, I felt discomfort in my eyeball,” Zhang said.
“After the stitches were removed, I noticed a threadlike connection between my eyeball and the corner. The surgeon, hospital director Wang, assured me it was nothing serious and offered me another operation to separate them.” However, her condition deteriorated and her eye became inflamed.
The tissues fused again a week later, which severely limited the movement of her left eye and she had persistent blurred vision. Zhang now has to rely on eye drops and can only move her eye by turning her head. She tried to negotiate with the clinic to pay for corrective surgery at a larger hospital in Shanghai, but the clinic insisted the problem could be resolved locally at a lower cost.
“I told Wang that I could not go on like this, but he insisted it was a simple operation that could be done in Weifang for just 1,000-2,000 yuan (US$140-US$280). “He said, ‘If you’re uncomfortable, go ahead and get it done. If not, just leave it as it is,’” Zhang said.
“I asked for 30,000 yuan back, but he said that was too much. He only offered 10,000 yuan, which wouldn’t even cover my travel expenses to Shanghai. Also, he kept delaying the payment, and now it has been two years.
” Zhang revealed that her mental health has also suffered because of the stress. She has developed depression and is experiencing significant hair loss. The Weifang medical beauty clinic has declined to comment on the situation, according to Sohu Video.
Zhang’s case and her post-surgery photos have terrified many people on mainland social media. “I can feel the pain just from reading this,” one person said. “Stitching the needle through the eyeball is really terrifying.
It’s a miracle she did not go blind,” said another. Similar previous cosmetic surgery blunders have caused an online stir. In February 2021, Chinese actress Gao Liu took to Weibo to show her botched nose job at a Guangzhou clinic.
The failed procedure caused her to lose work opportunities and face a potential breach of contract penalty amounting to two million yuan (US$280,000). In July, an influencer in China called Qin Xinyu lamented his failed nose job and wrote a song about it called Return My Nose Mum Gave Me , which went viral..
