UK Keratoconus Self-Help and Support Association

yes that is it exactly. I am still managing (just ) with lenses so don't need a graft at the moment (although you wouldn't necessarily know that from my typing! :roll: ) For me it is very important to read a mixture of stories so that I feel prepared for the worst but encouraged by the positive and ...

I think I watched the show you are talking about. If so it was dreadful - not the KC bit but the show. It was an extreme make over show where the production team completely rebulit the family's house and re stocked their wardrobes - for which they had to display due gratitude for the camera etc. The...

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They do hurt ~ but I still like them.

I don't know what this says about me!

Brigid

Matthew Wrote "Gareth, you've crammed a lot in haven't you?"

No he is just 157 years old!

Hi An interesting discussion, Edgar Degas, 1834-1917 - suffered a deteriation in his sight and feared he would go blind~which he never actually did. In 1871, he wrote to his close friend, the artist James Tissot: "I have just had and still have a spot of weakness and trouble in my eyes. It caug...

Fair comment Val - I am originally from Edinburgh so Manchester is not completely North -I accept, but there are some people from south of Birmingham (who live in desert like conditions with hose pipe bans etc.)who just don't understand about wet hair and winter weather. :wink: Gareth - I think I ma...

Thanks Sweet I shall try varing my drying technique. I don't use eye make up and foundataion because I find my eye lids have become very sensitive. Also mascara is a no go because my eyes water so much. Waterproof mascara worries me because of removing it, as well. Gareth - you're about as useful as...

Hi Sorry to interupt the important stuff but... I am asking for advice on an issue which may seem trivial complred to some others discussed here (probably because it is :wink: ) but it is becoming an issue for me. i have very straight brown hair which I have (for most of my adult life) worn cut belo...