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SOL PEARLMAN ZEST FOR LIFE By Lynne Peterson - Aventura Digest
Friendly Sol Pearlman knows a good deal when he sees it whether buying and restoring antique Indian motorcycles, getting tickets for the theater or spending time with his family traveling to Cape Cod. Now, Sol can enjoy life even more after having successful eye surgery done by Board Certified Ophthamologist Dr. Stanley Braverman of Hallandale Beach. When Sol was a youngster growing up in Brooklyn, New York, he was playing in the street with a ball that bounced into a storm drain on the curb. Eagerly, he tried to retrieve the ball with a wire hanger. Regrettably, the hanger poked the child in the left eye which affected the pupil,
cornea and optic nerve. His mother took the child immediately to the hospital where a doctor patched him up, but the eye, to his family’s dismay, would not work normally. “From the age of six, my left eye was partially closed and I only saw shadows. As a result, I became bored reading, cut classes and had trouble paying attention. I did not excel in school as my brother and sister did and I turned out to be the black sheep of my family. As I became older, I did my best and worked in management and eventually found satisfying work as a caregiver,” Sol said. During an annual eye exam with optometrist Dr. Norman
Hershkovich in Fort Lauderdale, Sol asked the doctor about his eye trauma from childhood. “The doctor said he knows of an ophthalmologist, Dr. Stanley Braverman, who might be able to help me. At first, I thought the doctor was kidding because fifteen doctors previously said nothing could be done with my one eye and just to leave it alone.” Sol followed up and made an appointment with Dr. Stanley Braverman. After a thorough eye examination and evaluation, Dr. Braverman determined that the injury had caused a corneal laceration and Sol had severe corneal astigmatism because of the injury. Sol also had cataracts in both eyes. Dr. Braverman
“I saw fifteen doctors and Dr Braverman was the only one to say ‘yes’, he could help me!” explained that by removing the cataract and by implanting a Toric Lens for astigmatism in his left eye, as well as by doing additional astigmatism correcting incisions in the
cornea, this would be able to improve the vision in his eye as well as correct the severe astigmatism from the childhood
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