I am a sixty-two year old lady with Keratoconus, diagnosed when I was twenty-two years old. My right eye was correctable with glasses but my left eye was not. Over the years I've tried hard contacts, toric soft lenses, and gas permeable lenses. The gas perms corrected the vision but were intolerable. The last specialist I saw at a major medical university in 2002 told me that there was no use in trying gas perms again since the technology hadn't improved enough and I wouldn't be able to wear them. A family member was going to see Dr. Maller in Fort Lauderdale so I asked the doctor if he'd be willing to evaluate my eyes to see if he had any ideas that could help me. After examining me he decided to work on the comfort factor first as I told him I wouldn't wear contacts if it were going to be a constant struggle. He conquered that problem with the second set of contacts and improved my sight so well in my left eye that I can see properly with that eye for the first time in my life. I also learned more about Keratoconus, in the short time I was there, than I had learned in my entire lifetime. Next year I'm going back down to Florida to see if I can be fitted with bifocal contacts so that I can dispose of reading glasses.

Carolyn Kim
Seattle, Washington

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