“My vision was getting blurrier and blurrier, and I was starting to get worried about being able to play.  I kept rubbing my eyes thinking I needed to clear something out. I went to a local optometrist for a check-up, because my coach was worried, and the optometrist diagnosed me with keratoconus that day.

Keratoconus made my cornea bulge slightly in my right eye, causing distortion and blurriness.

He told me to stop rubbing my eyes, which could be making it worse. We don’t really know what caused my keratoconus, because it doesn’t run in my family. I like to learn and so I dug into everything I could find about keratoconus. The National Keratoconus Foundation was a great resource.  I learned that keratoconus can be caused by a number of things, including excessive eye rubbing, allergies, and genetics. There are several treatment options depending on the severity of the condition. My keratoconus is not advanced to the point where I’d need a corneal transplant, thankfully, so my optometrist recommended BostonSight SCLERAL. Scleral lenses gave me my vision back immediately. Sclerals require a learning process to apply and remove, but once you get it, you get it.  It’s just another step in my morning routine.”

Now I’m back on the field again, doing what I love.