UK Keratoconus Self-Help and Support Association

The Ashes are in Leeds, wahoo!!!

I'm going to headinley to watch the cricket on sunday (3rd day of the test, should be good) but how am I gonna be able to see the ball!!!! The chances of me seeing a relatively small red ball travlling at over 80 miles per hour are very very slim.

Oh well, at least it is supposed to be warm and sunny. bring on the beer Woop Woop

p.s my eyesight in my grafted eye is exactly the same as before the graft. Doesn;t look like getting anywhere with it. Starting to get depressed with it now wishing I never bothered with it. There is still a glimmer of hope that the skin heals and my consultant can manouver the cornea so i can see but it is only a very small glimmer. I'm not looking forward to him keeping the bandage lens out next time i see him but hopefully it won;t hurt too badly.

Be patient about your vision: it took me two years after my first graft for things to settle down. The wait was well worth it!

Andrew

ps Enjoy the cricket

One of the ushers for my wedding has a VIP pass for all cricket at Headingley as he works for a very nice hotel in town where the players and umpires stay.

re seeing the ball travelling at a great pace, not sure what to suggest other than follow the que's of others to the reaction of when the ball has been played.

I prefer 20-20 to test matches.

Love all sport, well cept golf - ick!

Lea
xox

Re seeing the action: binoculars. Or a telescope if you prefer.
If ou don't have, or can't borrow, some, can you hire them??
Bincoular hire stalls are common on racecourses, don't know about cricket grounds - but a cricket field is so big, strikes me they should be.
Try googling inocular hire....
Re vision post-graft - it's rare to have really good unaided vision post-graft. The idea of the graft is to make a more regular shape that's easier to correct, not to make 20-20 vision from the graft itself.
Many people with poor unaided vision do find it comes up well in contacts, or wiwith contacts or specs - I'm told 50% wear contacts nd 40% wear glasses post-graft - and the "lucky" 10% probably includes people like me who've given up trying to get good vision even corrected.
IT taekes a while, though - typically a year to 18 months - to get to the stage of getting the specs or contact.
Well, it can be done earlier, but the ey is still changing so fast, ou'd need a newlens/specs as soon as you'd got tsoon as you'd got the previous one.
If it's nay help - my unaided vision is about 5120 in the grafted eye, and very short sighted to read, adn getting ever more and more astigmatic, but has come up to amost 6.5 in a scleral lens.
OS don't despair yet.
Rosemary