Apply for Membership in Fuchs’ Friends

Current Members please note. This form is for persons who are not yet members.  For changes in your membership or other needs, you must write to the Message Board Moderator.

Please Note: We shall hold your surname and email address in strictest confidence.  Completion and submission of this form to our web site implicitly gives us your permission to utilize your other information, such as gender, age, location to develop demographics about Fuchs’. 

If you have a Set-top box or other system without a mouse click on the ‘If No Mouse’ below for instructions for navigating around a form:

Other Notes:

• Do NOT submit multiple requests; we have no way to handle them.  Only the first request received will be considered. All fields must be completed properly to ensure your registration. Incomplete requests will cause an error message to display.
• Please use caps AND lower case for proper capitalization of items except email address and zip code (e.g, Robert, not robert or ROBERT).

This link is for help on this form only 

First or Given Name of the Applicant

Last or Surname that same person

Warnings

Some Internet Service Providers (ISP), apparently in an attempt to reduce SPAM,  refuse to accept, or only sporadically accept, email from Yahoo.  Other ISPs, are causing difficulties for YahooGroups members, claiming to reject these emails for Policy Reasons.

If your ISP is on the list below, we strongly urge you to apply through a different email address, such as Yahoo, GMail, AIM Mail, another web based email service, or a non-web based email service not listed below. 

The following ISPs are not generally accepting emails, including invitations to join a Yahoo group, from Yahoo:

 

comcast.net
hotmail.com
live.com
msn.com
myway.com

sbcglobal.net
sympatico.ca
adelphia.net
bellsouth.net
ymail.com

If you are served by one of the above, please make a point of complaining to them about their lack of cooperation with Yahoo.
 

If your computer or your Internet Service Provider performs automatic Spam isolation or firewalling, you must turn this feature off or you will not receive the Invitation that allows you to Join Fuchs’ Friends.  This invitation will originate from Yahoogroups and you cannot join unless you receive it and respond to it.

An improper email address will cause a form to be rejected since we have no way to reach you. Proper email address format  always has your service provider in it; for instance:
myname@aohades.com

E-mail Address

City

State or Province

Zip or Postal Code

 (5 digits for US)

Country

Age

   Of person who has Fuchs’

Gender (of the person who has Fuchs’)

 Male            Female

Year Diagnosed (yyyy)

Pick ONLY ONE of the Radio Buttons Below

  I have Fuchs’ Corneal Dystrophy

  A friend or relative has Fuchs’ Corneal Dystrophy

Please select ONLY ONE reason below that best tells  us why you want to join Fuchs’ Friends

 I am a doctor or corneal specialist.

 I want to learn more about Fuchs’ Corneal Dystrophy.

 I want to talk to someone else who has Fuchs’.

 I want to find a good Corneal Specialist in my area.

 I want to learn about ways to cope with Fuchs’.

 I want to hear about corneal transplant experiences.

 I want to discuss timetables and symptoms of Fuchs’.

 I want to discuss related eye problems such as cataracts glaucoma etc.

The Fuchs' Friends group at Yahoo is a private message board/email support group for people with Fuchs' Corneal Dystrophy.  Your request will be forwarded to the Moderators of Fuchs' Friends for consideration.  If your request is accepted, a Moderator will instruct Yahoo to send you an invitation to join the group. 

The From address on the invitation will be:

fuchsfriends-owner@yahoogroups.com

If you have your email system set to block emails from Yahoo.com or Yahoogroups.com, or set to manually ask for a response from the sender, you will not receive the invitation from Yahoo.com, and we will not know that you  didn't receive the invitation.  Also, if you have told Yahoo to not send  invitations to you, Yahoo will not send you an invitation.  Please make sure that you can receive the invitations sent by Yahoo.com.

You must respond to the invitation from Yahoo to join the group. Please check all Yahoo originated email carefully for this invitation, which has a 30 day expiration.

More typographical errors are found in email addresses than any other field on this application, thus we ask that you carefully reenter your email address below:

Please reenter your Email Address here exactly as you did earlier in this form

An improper email address will cause a form to be rejected since we have no way to reach you. Proper email address format  always has your service provider in it; for instance:
myname@aohades.com

It may take up to one minute for an acknowledgement to return after you press the SUBMIT button.

Please do not press the Submit button more than ONCE.  You might have to wait a few minutes until the server acknowledges that it received your request

Click Only ONCE

Please allow us up to two days to respond.
If you don’t receive an invitation in two days, please press the Join Help link below and send us a Help message.

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