Wonky windows: Understanding the imperfect cornea
Keratoconus is a disease in which the cornea (the clear front window of the eye) progressively thins and begins to bulge and protrude.
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Keratoconus is a disease in which the cornea (the clear front window of the eye) progressively thins and begins to bulge and protrude.
I was diagnosed with keratoconus when I was fifteen, but I had glasses from age eleven and, against my wishes, was forced to permanently sit at the front of the classroom at school. The new glasses never seemed to be effective for very long and those four years of relatively rapid vision loss was the start of countless visits to optometrists and opthalmologists. Unbeknownst to me at the time, the frequent change in glasses prescription was the first tell-tale sign of this degenerative corneal disease.