HT201077 blurred photo stream pictures

Some of my pictures in a shared photo stream take longer to load and then they are blurred on my iphone 4s. I tried emailing one of the pictures to myself but the picture becomes a small dot. The blurred picture wont save to my camera roll either. Is there a fix? or do I just ask for the pictures to be shared again?

Do you have iPhoto on your iMac setup to automatically import Photo Stream photos into your iPhoto Library?
If you do they will be in your library where you can add them back to the Photo Stream.
OT

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