As we welcome 2025, we want to thank you all for being a part of this community, for the support you provide and the knowledge you share, and for showing everyone that keratoconus is not a barrier, but a challenge that can be overcome. For the new year, we wish you all good health and happiness, clear vision, affordable health care, comfortable contact lenses, successful corneal grafts, effective crosslinkings, and stable corneas. Here is to a new year of sharing and learning from each other's experiences and insights.
What would you write in a New Year card to someone with Keratoconus?
We asked our community what they would write on a New Year card to someone who has keratoconus. Here's what you had to share:
☺️ show YOURSELF the patience and compassion you deserve this year 🥳
May 2025 bring you easy scleral insertion!
The future’s so bright we’ve got to wear shades ! Happy New Year !! 😂😂
Happy New Year!! Live your live to the Max. Be Grateful for every day you water up and open your eyes and you can see, enjoy that day and the next and the next! The present is what count and one day you will realized you live your entire life to the fullest able to see every single moment of it! Blessings to ALL and worry no more live the present because you can see!
Stay strong, patient, allow for others not to understand what we are going through, this disease is not fatal, just frustrating, aggravating and somewhat depressing, but there is hope, you are not alone, we care
Happy New Year! Everything will be fine! Wishing you a blessed new year ahead and A-1 vision.
You can do this! I'm 48 next year and was diagnosed at 16, I live a very normal life, I work, I drive except at night. I wear sclerals and have had no surgeries. My vision is functional for my life style. Yes I struggle but there is so much to be greatful for in life. If I can do it, you can too.
Happy newyear…💫 Sometimes you might feel alone because not everyone understands what you are going through, but you are not alone♥️
May 2025 be a good contact fitting year
May u always be kind to yourself
It’s difficult but you’ll be ok ❤️ have plenty of saline & save money
Give yourself grace on those bad days, and learn to adapt.
May your night vision improve much this year ❤️ and yea don’t lose hope be strong
May 2025 bring scleral lenses for you ❤️
It may seem sometimes that Kerataconus controls your life, but don't let it! Take control of your diagnosis with all the medical advances and live your life to the fullest!
Keratoconus is not just a complex eye condition that affects you physically, but psychologically and socially as well. However, there are effective treatments available. Make sure you see an Ophthalmologist specialising in the cornea. Additionally, there will be ups and downs. If I feel down, I remind myself that it's OK to sometimes not be OK, but I also remind myself of what I do have. 🙏
Don't worry, it is going to be ok. There are great new treatments and contact lenses out today.
May the New year bring goodness to you and the disease process of our eyes stop!
We are strong .... we are rare .. we have to bring positivity in our life either its difficult .. but he have to fight the war of sight & blindness #keratoconus is our partner and will remain ... to accept it with a big heart 😔
I am amazed with your incredible perseverance and to please check with your doctor to see if you are a candidate for FDA approved cross linking as there are 62 national and regional insurance companies that have positive coverage. Happy Holidays!
Hoping the new year brings to you the best of everything in life, may there be no struggle or hurdles, hope things sail smooth and your eyes shine as bright as your future and make you believe nothing can stop you! ❤️ I am proud of you, fighter. Lots of love, positivity, strength and healing energies! ✨
Don't give up! This can be beaten and will! Be a warrior, not a victim! With each coming day/year we can spread awareness and get more support! Please spread the word and help cure us and our kids!! Much love to you!!
Don't give up! Don't rush to a transplant. There is no one contact\scleral lens that is great for everyone. Find a keratoconus specialist who can provide great vision. DON'T GIVE UP!
Stay S T R O N G!! This may be the year for a cure!!!!
Among the many eye problems that can make ones life difficult #keratoconus is certainly one of them Requires great patience, NO eye-rubbing, and an experienced clinician to care for you for 3 reasons: 1- to maximize your visual function with glasses and or contact lenses 2- apply CXL when and if needed so to avoid a transplant 3- screen family members (especially teens) for #keratoconus expression and possibly offering #2 and last remember that life’s difficulties only make us stronger and more compassionate: Happy New Year!
🎼 Things are going to be great, and they'll only get better, Your future's so bright, ya gotta wear shades! 😎
Dear [Keratoconus] Fighter, I want you to know, you are not alone. I struggled for years with keratoconus but the last two years saw my sight decline. All of sudden I was unable to drive myself around, my family did the driving for me. I struggled for two years, attempting to find the perfect fitting lense. I was referred to alot of people but never got a perfect fitting lenses. Everytime I got discouraged and after every failed trial lenses I cried. I had to stop my studies and adjust my life. It was hard but my family would never let me give up so I kept fighting until I got a perfect lenses two months back. I know its long message but all I want to tell you is do not give up, keep fighting. Keep telling yourself ..... I am not keratoconus💪
It's a new year and new possibilities don't worry about not seeing the blessings coming your way because there coming this is your year keratoconus
You are only beaten when lay down. Blindness is not a disability it’s just something else to get over. There are blind musicians, photographers and painters.
I can see better days ahead for so many of us; let's celebrate.
This may have been a crazy year but next year will be cornea (cornier)
Don’t be afraid to get surgery. I just did and it made a huge difference.
Here’s hoping the snow doesn’t come in a flurry and make your vision even more blurry! Merry Christmas and best wishes for the new year!!! Blink three times and I hope to see you there!!
Diagnosis is not the end. It means that there's now openings to being helped. Things do get better. Some days will hurt more and make you feel like there's no point in trying, but each day your sight feels OK is a day your fighting back the condition. Each day you wear your lenses, or each day closer to surgery is a day closer in your fight to show that kerataconus won't win.