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Keratoconus (KC) is a condition of the eyes that thins the cornea and makes it steep. Think of it as the side of the football is a normal cornea. Then you turn it and the tip is a KC cornea.
So what it does is distort the light coming through the suface of the eye. Instead of a sharp image, it puts a tail on it. Some people look at a light and see a comma shape. I look at a light and it is basically a dragged-out circle.
The treatment is to fit the patient with Rigid Gas Permable (RGP) contact lenses. That presses down the cornea in order for the light to come in normally and provide good vision. Most KC patients are able to wear contacts for the rest of their life.
There are those, though, that contacts become unbearable to and/or the condition progresses to the point where contacts are not doing any good. That's when they consider a cornea transplant.
Now that you know some background information, let me proceed with my story of Keratoconus
Just a little bit on the writing of these pages: I wrote all of this except for the majority of page 4 and all of page 5 in June 2002. That is why the entries are so short. My memory fails me in some areas. I wanted to keep the present tense of a journal throughout these pages, so that is why I wrote it like this. The more detailed and (in my opinion) more interesting entries are on part of page 3 and onward. That's when you get more recent entries. I hope that this will help you on discovering what Keratoconus is and my journey through it. Enjoy!
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