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<p>In September 2009 I lost the sight in my right eye, I spent 2 weeks in the Eye Pavillion in Edinburgh. The doctors and the support from the nurses was great while I was in hospital and they managed to save the eye. I had an abscess and an ulser on the cornea of my eye. This has left permanent scaring on the front of my eye wich has left me without sight for the last couple of years. There is a chance that I get my sight back through a cornea transplent, however this is a complex operation and I wont be able to do sport for a couple of years after the operation. I have picked 'FightforSight' for personal reasons, all doctors and nurses I have seen oer the past couple of years have been great. For years to come I will continue to see specialist before and after the cornea transplant. I will have the chance to get my sight back in the future, however some people are not so lucky.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Heres a little bit about what 'FightforSight' does: </strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">'FightforSight' was instrumental in establishing </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">the UK Corneal Transplant Service, a computerised national distribution service for corneal tissue. This service has vastly improved the availability of corneas for transplantation by facilitating the sharing of tissue between hospitals and by reducing wastage. More than 48,000 corneal transplants have been recorded since the service began. In addition, Fight for Sight are currently funding research projects, being carried out at the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, that will help increase the success of corneal transplantation as well as another project which is studying the use of <em>in vivo</em> confocal microscopy to monitor risk of rejection in transplant patients.</span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">The events I will be running in 2012 will be:</span></strong></span></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">The Meadows Half Marathon - Sunday 4th March 2012</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">The Edinburgh Half Marathon - Sunday 15th April 2012 </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">The Edinburgh Marathon - Sunday 27th May 2012 </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">The Great Scottish Run (10k) - Sunday 2nd September 2012 </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">The Great North Run (Half Marathon) - Sunday 16th September 2012 </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Lochness 10k - Sunday 30th September 2012 </span></li>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><em><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: black; font-size: 10pt;">Mens Health Survival Of The Fittest Series, Tri-nation, (Cardiff, Nottingham and Edinburgh) 10k's </span></span></em></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Cardiff - Sunday 7th October 2012 </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Nottingham - Saturday 13th October 2012 </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Edinburgh - Sunday 21st October 2012 </span></li>
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<p> Photos will be added from every event.</p>
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