How To Avoid Going Blind with Dr. Mervet Hachem

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🗓️ 3 July 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Hi This is Brad Weisman - Click Here to Send Me a Text Message When Brad Weisman started seeing flashes of light in his peripheral vision followed by spider-like shadows crawling across his sight, he knew something was seriously wrong. This frightening experience leads to an enlightening conversation with optometrist Dr. Mervet Hachem about the critical eye emergencies we should never ignore. Dr. Hachem explains that Brad experienced a posterior vitreous detachment—a specific type of floater...

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1:05.3	Something happened to me. This is several months ago. I think actually we talked about it was around the Christmas time.
1:11.1	And I wanted to tell you this, Hugo, because this story is pretty interesting.
1:14.2	I was, my eye doctor, who is Mervat Hacham, she said, you know, if you ever have any issues, like if you see any flashes of light, or if you ever like are, you know, see something that doesn't look right.
1:27.2	She had said because of your prescription that, you know, there's, that you definitely want to let me know if you see something like that. So I'm gone to take the kids to CCD. And I'm seeing these little, these flashes off to the right hand side. Now it's raining. So I'm thinking it's probably just somebody's lights. It's car or lightning, yes, exactly.
1:45.5	Something gets like a car or something lights. And then it keeps happening. Then on the way home, I do this, I cover my left eye. And I'm like, okay, it's definitely just the right eye. This is kind of weird. I get home. I'm thinking, okay, it's going to go away. I'll wake up tomorrow. I'll be fine. So I start brushing my teeth, which is good.
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