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	<title>Eyes Apart:  Living with strabismus</title>
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	<description>...also known as crossed eyes, lazy eye, wall eyes, squint, tropia, double vision, turned, floating, wandering, wayward, or drifting eyes.</description>
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		<title>Strabismus got you down?  This will lift you up!</title>
		<link>http://www.eyesapart.com/2007/12/01/hand-in-hand/</link>
		<comments>http://www.eyesapart.com/2007/12/01/hand-in-hand/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Dec 2007 05:50:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois (admin)</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Brett shared the url to this video in our Eyes Apart Strabismus Support group recently.  Brett writes, &#8220;If strabismus seems like a barrier to living our dreams and gaining acceptance, just imagine the hurdles these two beautiful dancers have managed to overcome.&#8221;

The ballet &#8220;Hand in Hand&#8221; is performed by Ma Li and Zhai Xiaowei, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New fun video game offers vision training in minutes a day!</title>
		<link>http://www.eyesapart.com/2007/11/23/flash-focus-sight-training/</link>
		<comments>http://www.eyesapart.com/2007/11/23/flash-focus-sight-training/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Nov 2007 21:51:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois (admin)</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Children's vision]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Just for fun]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Vision therapy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Flash Focus:  Vision Training in Minutes a Day is a new video game for Nintendo DS.  It&#8217;s designed to improve hand-eye coordination, focus, and peripheral vision through a series of fun games.  Flash Focuswas developed in Japan and is distributed there as well as in Europe, the UK, and Australia as &#8220;Sight [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Would you trade part of your life expectancy to be rid of strabismus?</title>
		<link>http://www.eyesapart.com/2007/11/03/trade-life-expectanc/</link>
		<comments>http://www.eyesapart.com/2007/11/03/trade-life-expectanc/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Nov 2007 03:10:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois (admin)</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Social trauma]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Strabismus]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Surveys & research]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[  David Marshall writes:
Dr. David Guyton at the Wilmer Eye Institue of Johns Hopkins sent this to me along with some other articles, but this one is a very powerful reminder of how crippling strabismus can be to those of us who suffer from it. It is a study conducted by George R Beauchamp, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Intimidated by the creeping shadow of strabismus?  Here&#8217;s help!</title>
		<link>http://www.eyesapart.com/2007/10/25/shadow-of-strabismus/</link>
		<comments>http://www.eyesapart.com/2007/10/25/shadow-of-strabismus/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Oct 2007 05:57:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois (admin)</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Help and find help]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Social trauma]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The following item is edited and used by permission from a letter posted by David Marshall recently in our Eyes Apart Strabismus Support group.  David wrote:
I often wonder if my strabismus is much like a shadow on the wall. There are days when it looms so large over me all I want to do [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Social confidence with lazy eyes</title>
		<link>http://www.eyesapart.com/2007/10/20/social-confidence/</link>
		<comments>http://www.eyesapart.com/2007/10/20/social-confidence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Oct 2007 22:22:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois (admin)</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Help and find help]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Social trauma]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The following item is edited from a letter posted by shayla last month in our Eyes Apart Strabismus Support group.  It&#8217;s hard for some people to accept being referred to as having &#8220;lazy eyes.&#8221; We know that strabismus eyes work much harder than normal eyes.  Shayla used this term about herself with confidence, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lazy eye amblyopia research study</title>
		<link>http://www.eyesapart.com/2007/10/13/lazy-eye-amblyopia-research-study/</link>
		<comments>http://www.eyesapart.com/2007/10/13/lazy-eye-amblyopia-research-study/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Oct 2007 06:22:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois (admin)</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Children's vision]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Surveys & research]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[According to the European research news resource, AlphaGalileo.Org, &#8220;Researchers at the University of Bradford are seeking volunteers for a study into the condition ‘amblyopia’ which is more commonly known as ‘lazy eye’.&#8221;
According to this report, the study will be done using a &#8220;new state-of-the-art Optical Coherence Tomographer&#8230;used to examine the structure of the eye in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blogging again and better than ever!</title>
		<link>http://www.eyesapart.com/2007/10/08/blogging-again/</link>
		<comments>http://www.eyesapart.com/2007/10/08/blogging-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Oct 2007 05:49:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois (admin)</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Blogging]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Help and find help]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Our site has been down over a week after an upgrade of the blogging software.  Part was due to incompatibilities with some of our older plugins and our theme template as well.  So we&#8217;ve had a face lift!  I hope you&#8217;ll find our site easier to use and more helpful than ever. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Photos of rectus eye muscle strabismus surgery in progress</title>
		<link>http://www.eyesapart.com/2007/09/28/strabismus-surgery-photos/</link>
		<comments>http://www.eyesapart.com/2007/09/28/strabismus-surgery-photos/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Sep 2007 02:04:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois (admin)</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Strabismus surgery]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve been asked several times if I know of any photos on the net of strabismus surgery in progress. I came across these photos a few weeks ago. I’ve been hesitant to publish them, because while it may help relieve fears for some to see what is actually being done, others facing the surgery may [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My strabismus: Two lazy eyes like 2 unruly two-year-olds!</title>
		<link>http://www.eyesapart.com/2007/09/24/two-lazy-eyes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.eyesapart.com/2007/09/24/two-lazy-eyes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2007 20:25:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois (admin)</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Help and find help]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Lois' story]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Social trauma]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[The way we see]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.eyesapart.com/2007/09/24/two-lazy-eyes/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Those of us who have strabismus do not like to be referred to as having a lazy eye.  We are not lazy.  Because our eyes don&#8217;t work right, we often have to work much harder to accomplish a task than those who have normal vision.
But if any form of strabismus could be referred [...]]]></description>
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		<item>
		<title>President Abraham Lincoln:  A great man with a drifting eye</title>
		<link>http://www.eyesapart.com/2007/09/19/abe-lincoln/</link>
		<comments>http://www.eyesapart.com/2007/09/19/abe-lincoln/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2007 03:26:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois (admin)</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Inspirations]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.eyesapart.com/2007/09/19/abe-lincoln/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[President Abraham Lincoln had a rugged, somewhat homely look.  Now scientists say that Lincoln&#8217;s face, which it&#8217;s said was often the brunt of ridicule, was distorted due to a medical condition called cranial facial microsomia.  The result was that the left side of his face, including the eye socket, was much smaller than [...]]]></description>
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