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Connor is my

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grandson, and that's my daughter Melissa's
little boy.

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Connor now is in fourth grade.

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In fact, he's running for student
council today, so real proud of him.

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I took care of him

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ever since he was, like three months old.

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Yeah,
it was always just kind of a struggle.

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I don't want anybody
to have to go through what I went through.

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There is hope and that’s XEOMIN.

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My name is Jan Neutz

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and I have something called
cervical dystonia.

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It's just a constant,
like pulling of your muscles

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in your neck
so that they just completely tighten up.

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My head was completely turned
to the right hand side.

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It's kind of like that.

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And I wasn't able to move it
or control it.

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It is a brain dysfunction,
a neurological disorder.

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It's like fighting your body all the time.

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I was like this and like this and, like,

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just trying to hold my head and trying
to, you know, get comfortable.

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I was about 20, 21 and

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I went into a medical assistant program,
which I absolutely loved.

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And then I went off
to work for an eye doctor,

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and I helped him with some surgeries
in the office and checked vision

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very strangely over about a two week
period.

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My head just started
like completely turning to the right

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and it just was staying there.

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So it got harder and harder to do my job.

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I had dreams and plans.

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Pretty much all of that was dashed.

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I had tried many different treatments

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and they worked for a while
and then they stopped working.

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Then you're back to square one.

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It got to be a huge problem.

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There were so many things
that I wasn't able to do.

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About eight years ago, I started XEOMIN.

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It's this feeling like, you know,
something like, lifted off of you.

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It was like I had more control of my head,
which was incredible.

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And it also allows me to do things
now that I enjoy doing.

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My husband and I love to travel.

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We have planned a Mediterranean cruise.

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I do have some tours planned for us,

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so there is a lot of excitement
going on with that.

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If my dystonia was the way it was before
I started

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the XEOMIN I would not feel comfortable
taking a long trip like that.

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This is a trip of a lifetime.

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Receiving XEOMIN for me is every 12 weeks.

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I get a series of about 15 shots

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through the neck
and the upper shoulder and upper back.

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He does use an EMG, an electromyogram

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to be able to test the muscles
that are really tight.

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It's so much easier to plan my life.

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I'm very grateful for XEOMIN.

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I always

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have driven since I was 16 years old.

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When I got cervical dystonia,

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it was very disturbing.

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I stopped driving.

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I would say with XEOMIN

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that driving is a lot more comfortable
for me, and I'm able to drive

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wherever I need or want to go.

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Conner is about nine and a half.

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We have a really close bond.

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I don't think he understands

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completely what grandma has or what
I deal with,

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because with XEOMIN, I've always
just been able to do things with him,

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take him to the park, take him for walks,
get down on the floor with him

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and play.

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Pretty much.

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I'm a normal grandma.