Author: David Gable

I was first diagnosed with KC around 11 years ago, but I really didn’t think that much about it at the time, and it hardly bothered me for the first few years. I used to go for regular eye tests and the opticians would always mention it, but we tend to move areas quite regularly due to work so I hardly ever saw the same optician twice so no one was really monitoring it to notice it getting progressively worse.   Continue reading “Richard’s Story”

It started when he was a teenager, with a gradual deterioration of his sight – first in his right eye and then in his left.

But Jonathan Pickles was already short-sighted, and at first he thought the blurred vision was connected to that. Continue reading “Donor’s Vision Helps Victim”

My brief history

After having KC for 10 years and exploring various possibilities, I went on the waiting list for a graft in January 2003. Following an episode of hydrops and corneal scarring, I felt it was a necessary choice for my left eye, luckily vision in my right eye is still very reasonable. Continue reading “One member’s experience of a corneal graft”

I write this passage to pass on my own experience of having and living with keratoconus. Although the condition has been for me frustrating and limiting in certain aspects, my personal view is that it has not proved to be a disability and has not prevented me leading a full and ‘normal’ life. Continue reading “Rugby and Keratoconus: A personal account”

My story begins in 1972 when I was 25.  I was working in a bank in London and was starting to notice that the figures in the ledgers, appeared to be double.  I had been wearing glasses for a few years and the optician referred me to Moorfields.  I explained that I was getting double vision and after a while I was sent down to the children’s department. Continue reading “David’s Story”