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Keith Algreen was 11 years old and had just started the sixth grade in the fall of 1986. He was not a big guy, “…four foot eight and weighed all of 80 pounds wet,” says his mother, Marilyn. He was making plans to invite his friend, Jodi, to dance with him at the school’s fall celebration, and planned to tell her it was because he was the shortest in the class and she was the tallest.

Some glaucoma tube shunt surgeries utilize corneal tissue recovered, evaluated, and distributed by Iowa Lions Eye Bank

Tyler McKinney was a junior and the starting point guard for Creighton University’s men’s basketball team in late 2003 when he was sidelined with an eye infection called acanthamoeba keratitis. McKinney isn’t sure how he contracted the infection in his right eye, but his best guess is that it happened when he was in Canada during a preseason basketball trip.

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