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Podcast: It Happened To Me: A Rare Disease and Medical Challenges Podcast
Episode: #47 Living with NAION: Rachel Schreiman’s Journey Through Vision Loss and Advocacy
Description: In this powerful and educational episode of It Happened To Me, we sit down with Rachel Schreiman who turned her personal struggle with vision loss into a mission to support others. Rachel shares her story of resilience after experiencing two episodes of Non-Arteritic Anterior Ischemic Optic Neuropathy (NAION), a rare and debilitating eye condition caused by insufficient blood flow to the optic nerve. These episodes left her with significant central vision loss, but instead of giving up, Rachel embraced a new path.
Rachel Schreiman is a CPA and musician who holds an MBA from the U...