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Postby Sweet » Sun 26 Mar 2006 7:47 pm

LMAO!!! Oh oh! We have been found out!!! Well, you know they shouldn't have followed me!! LOL!! :wink:

You see ... i have this strange eye condition and ............... NO i can't blxxdy well wear glasses!!!! :roll: :? :twisted:

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Postby Louise Pembroke » Sun 26 Mar 2006 7:47 pm

I see you've really given the idea some thought.

Just another 2 pair of eyes though and you can have a different set for each day of the week.

Oh yes Chris I like that idea!

As for the 'blind leading the blind' I have my own little story here...Moorfields, 2nd transplant, and a [completely] blind friend visited me after surgery and went down to the cafe on the ground floor. I didn't have my lens in and the other eye had the shield/dressing on. We were holding onto each other and promptly bumped into a couple of people in the cafe seating area and we couldn't stop laughing
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Postby GarethB » Sun 26 Mar 2006 7:49 pm

Tried changing your prescriptionImage

We'd make good burglers, we'd find the window long before the doorImage
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Postby Sweet » Sun 26 Mar 2006 7:51 pm

Oh god i can't laugh anymore, my side really does hurt now!!!!!!!!!

Change my prescription, you know i'm going to poke your eye out in a second!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Postby jayuk » Sun 26 Mar 2006 7:51 pm

LOL @ Louise! I can visualise that!!!
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Postby GarethB » Sun 26 Mar 2006 7:56 pm

You're not asthmatic are you Sweet.

Which inhaler would you like?
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Postby Sweet » Sun 26 Mar 2006 8:06 pm

LOL!! Oh ,,,, a blue one will be great! LMAO!!!
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Postby rosemary johnson » Sun 26 Mar 2006 10:09 pm

Getting back on topic....

Well, it was good to get to an AGM for once! - and to "see" several of you, however briefly.
SOrry I had to slip out early - had managed to get confused with the time gap between the AGM and my next event and when I looked at how to get from one to the other, through enginerering work, oo-er.

Is it possible there could be a summary of the ameeting - or at least, of the talk - posted here? - notes rather than a full transcript, I mean?

I thought the talk was a good talk, but had too high a ratio of "What is KC?" to th genetics material - for an audience who know what KC is because we've got it, I mean. Maybe others differ?? - but was a tad disappointed not to hear more on the genetics.

I was very interested by the early comments that people get the same type of mis=shapenness in both eyes, and family members who both have KC have the same types of mis=shapenness, which made them think it was genetic, because an environmental cause wouldn't have lead to this similarity.
(By this, I mean the types of eye shape - pointy cone, droopy boob, big globe, etc)

Also that is seems to be more prevalent in Asians and progress more in Caribbeans.

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Postby John Smith » Mon 27 Mar 2006 12:22 am

Well, I did record the talk, so hopefully will have it on a DVD sometime... but it was quite long, so it probably won't fit on the conference DVD (out fairly soon, hopefully!)
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