UK Keratoconus Self-Help and Support Association

I once considered training as a counsellor, given how many people kept trying to tell me all their troubles, and I found some textbooks in the public library and read them to get an idea of what might be involved. I decided not to in the end, and what follows is a very brief, non-professional summar...

Having thought over the weekend, here's some more suggestions: MUSIC I've often heard that listening to music os good for helping damaged brains repair so suggest you listen to music as much as possible. CAMERA FLASHES I've been to quite a lot of parties in the last few years and seen lots of photos...

p.s. I heard someone on Radio 4 the other day saying she once had ME - she said something vague about being very stressed out, and she basically woke up with it one morning. She said hypersensitivity, to lights, sounds, anything, was the main symptom. She said she found a wonderful neuro-psychologis...

I once got a dent in my arm after I stumbled and fell, hitting my arm on a windowsill in Sidmouth. (2 pints of real cider might have been partly to blame!) It lasted about 2 years, gradually healing itself. It's completely better now, and never caused me any trouble. Re getting mugged - I suggest yo...

Hi R welcome back. And I just about made sense of your typing.... For doctors to be behaving as they are ("Who do you normally see?" and refusing to act until they see your notes) I can only imagine they must be taking you for a "frequent flier" i.e. one of those patients who kee...

Hi Cam back with no fewer than FIVE (!) tubes to fill with my blood. In theory you can lose up to 3 pints before you actually die... Tell me, why do banks these days have luxurious etc Machines are cheaper. It's only a disability discrimination issue if lifts aren't available - if you can ask and be...

he was trying to calm down parents who leaped to (wrong) conclusion from optician's refusal to give diagnosis that I was about to die of eye cancer! OMG did they really!! Oh dear oh dear!! I seem to remember they ALWAYS overreacted to anything wrong with your eyes - and I was forced to change optic...

Hi R Good luck for next appointment Well done at getting all that sorted with the practice manager Oh, and congrats on the rosette - should have said that last time. I think another part of the trouble with doctors is that to qualify you have to do enormous amounts of rote-learning, and spend years ...

R When you look back over the doctors who HAVE treated you as a rational human being, is there a common factor? Was there something about them - they were least rushed? Meeting you for the first time? Their speciality matched the symptoms you arrived with? Was there something about you - you were le...

I'm just analysing data, from some organizations nowhere near London, I have no direct contacts with the people on the ground. I would suggest that you or anyone else reading this who has any concerns about domestic violence and wants advice, or information about what help and support is available i...