I'm Shei Micho and you're listening to the response on the BBC World Service.

It's a new program which lets you broadcast a story to the world using the technology in your pocket. Two weeks ago we asked a simple question online.

What would you like to talk about?

Sabofahim from Karachi suggested our first topic, turning point.

So, we asked you to make a two minute recording on your phone about an incident which changed you.

Then email it to us.

You're about to hear the results, stories of lives which transformed

in a moment, from finding love to surviving homelessness, overcoming fear, and even discovering that you can dance.

First here's Dan Jeffries from Bristol in the UK whose act of kindness saved his own life.

I was born with an incredibly rare medical condition called Wiburn Mason

Syndrome which is a vascular condition which left me blind in my left eye. There's

only been about 30 cases in the last 50 years worldwide.

So I'm a very, very rare specimen. And because of this I've always been of interest to

Bristol Eye Hospital.

And they got in touch with me back in 2007 and asked me to be a test patient for some student exams.

So I went to the examinations and the first some student

walks in, the examiners,

says, okay, here's the patient, what do you see?

And the student looked to me and he looked me up and down and he said, well, he's got very large hands and a protruding forehead and an exposed jaw.

And I heard this and I didn't really understand what he was talking about and then the second

student said it and then the third and then the fourth and I'm thinking all the while you're

meant to be looking at my eyes and it transpired that they were actually diagnosing a condition I didn't know

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