WEBVTT 00:46.212 --> 00:47.047 You know what? 00:47.047 --> 00:51.317 Where I am now with XEOMIN, I'm still doing something 00:51.317 --> 00:54.320 to fill my soul. 00:56.189 --> 00:58.324 My name is Dona Norton. 00:58.324 --> 01:02.095 We are at Ocean City, New Jersey, about a block from the ocean. 01:03.063 --> 01:06.066 I can't imagine not being an artist. 01:06.066 --> 01:08.268 I can't imagine not being creative. 01:12.405 --> 01:14.140 With embroidery, 01:14.140 --> 01:16.976 I started actually doing it when I was in high school, 01:16.976 --> 01:19.813 and it was sort of a hippie thing. 01:19.813 --> 01:22.816 I think it's just something I feel in my soul. 01:23.850 --> 01:24.951 When I lost that, 01:24.951 --> 01:27.954 I lost a big part of myself. 01:29.589 --> 01:33.426 I have a condition called benign essential blepharospasm, 01:33.960 --> 01:37.897 which means that I can't control the muscles around my eyes. 01:38.198 --> 01:43.236 My eyes will slam shut without any rhyme or reason. 01:43.236 --> 01:46.239 They just close. 01:46.272 --> 01:50.043 You feel like you have sand and glass in your eyes. 01:51.044 --> 01:52.412 There are a lot of people that have 01:52.412 --> 01:55.415 what I have will shut themselves in. 01:56.583 --> 01:58.384 It was about 22 years ago. 01:58.384 --> 02:01.921 One day in the office, I was trying 02:01.921 --> 02:05.592 to put a whole big order into the computer, 02:06.226 --> 02:08.795 and all the sudden it was like a light 02:08.795 --> 02:11.798 switch went off and I couldn't see. 02:12.632 --> 02:14.267 So that was when I started mourning 02:14.267 --> 02:17.270 the loss of me. 02:18.171 --> 02:20.306 Couldn’t drive. 02:20.306 --> 02:22.575 Work stopped. 02:22.575 --> 02:25.411 I was really, really sad. 02:25.411 --> 02:28.281 And I'd never been sad my whole life. 02:28.281 --> 02:31.384 I saw many different kinds of doctors. 02:32.085 --> 02:34.220 No one could figure it out. 02:34.220 --> 02:36.723 And then finally, I went to a neurologist. 02:36.723 --> 02:39.692 He looked at me right away and said, you have blepharospasm. 02:40.793 --> 02:43.796 Not only did I lose my 02:44.164 --> 02:47.467 life, basically, my whole expression was gone. 02:49.235 --> 02:50.370 I lost my smile. 02:51.504 --> 02:53.940 I lost my joy. 02:53.940 --> 02:58.511 And I was ripe and ready for XEOMIN. 02:58.511 --> 03:01.614 With XEOMIN. I got my smile back. 03:01.781 --> 03:02.549 And you know what? 03:02.549 --> 03:05.552 I decided to choose joy. 03:06.152 --> 03:06.986 From that moment 03:06.986 --> 03:10.356 on, I can feel that I can control my eyes. 03:11.157 --> 03:13.893 I can control my expression. 03:13.893 --> 03:16.496 Where I am now, I get probably 10 03:16.496 --> 03:19.532 to 20 injections around my eyes. 03:19.599 --> 03:23.636 It takes about 15 to 20 minutes to have that done, 03:23.836 --> 03:26.439 and probably if you are needle phobe person, 03:26.439 --> 03:30.610 you would think that it's painful, but it's really not. 03:30.643 --> 03:31.978 I actually enjoy it 03:31.978 --> 03:34.347 now, because I know it's going to bring me relief. 03:34.347 --> 03:38.685 And I actually will go in now with other patients who are scared 03:38.751 --> 03:42.455 and hold their hand and assist them in injections. 03:43.756 --> 03:47.293 With XEOMIN the joy is still there. 03:48.027 --> 03:50.129 For the last couple of years. 03:50.129 --> 03:52.865 I'm doing a peace sign now, which I love 03:52.865 --> 03:55.868 because I just feel like 03:56.002 --> 03:59.439 if I can just spread a little bit more kindness and peace on this earth 03:59.672 --> 04:01.107 one jacket at a time, 04:02.175 --> 04:05.178 oh, it would just be, you know, wonderful. 04:06.946 --> 04:09.949 Well, it's a mission because I chose Joy. 04:10.483 --> 04:12.986 I needed to start something 04:12.986 --> 04:15.989 that would reach people outside of me. 04:16.122 --> 04:17.023 Hi, how you doing? 04:17.023 --> 04:18.424 Good, how you doing today? 04:18.424 --> 04:20.660 Good, I just made some new stuff, going to hang them up on the rack. 04:20.660 --> 04:21.527 Hang them up. 04:21.527 --> 04:24.530 My husband and I started thinking about 04:25.231 --> 04:27.333 what can we do for our community. 04:27.333 --> 04:30.336 There are people here that are really desperate. 04:30.570 --> 04:32.338 They really need our help. 04:32.338 --> 04:35.108 Now we have a huge 04:35.108 --> 04:38.478 thrift store and we have a food pantry there. 04:38.611 --> 04:41.614 It's called Second Chance because everyone needs one. 04:45.518 --> 04:47.453 That's what I want to work towards. 04:47.453 --> 04:50.056 Making changes in people's lives. 04:50.056 --> 04:53.192 With XEOMIN i'm so blessed to be able to do that. 04:53.593 --> 04:57.597 So I've come to a place in my life where I enjoy being more active 04:58.031 --> 05:01.034 in ministering to people that have blepharospasm. 05:01.601 --> 05:04.671 There are support groups, and I actually have one that 05:04.671 --> 05:08.941 I go to quite often, but now that I can reach out, 05:09.542 --> 05:12.478 that I can look at other people, 05:12.478 --> 05:16.082 I can say, do you feel like you 05:16.082 --> 05:19.118 maybe have a problem with your eyes? 05:20.053 --> 05:22.722 And I usually say it can be different. 05:22.722 --> 05:24.590 You don't need to suffer.