 Good morning. I'm Mary Ellen from the channel Mary Ellen after 60 and today I'm going to share with you something that happened to me recently. I got a chalazion. I'm going to share with you what it is. I want to let you know how I got it. I know how I got it and how I treated it. Toward the end of the video I'm just going to have a little chit chat. I'm going to announce the winner of my secret giveaway and the winner of my last giveaway for two people in the last video I did. A couple of weeks ago I noticed I had a hard knot under my eyelid right here on the bottom eyelid and it came up rather quickly. For five days in a row every day it got bigger and bigger and I'll put a picture somewhere up here of what it looked like. It was impeding my vision. I could see it when I looked down so I did call my eye doctor but I want to tell you what a chalazion is. It isn't a sty. It's formed around the eye and it really is an obstructed duct of some sort. This a sty is usually on the upper or lower waterline and a chalazion is usually around the eye and it's usually not an infection. Since mine was growing so quickly I did make an appointment to see my eye doctor and I called and they got me in that day. Even though it was not infected it was swollen and my doctor wanted me to go on five days of an antibiotic and I don't know when the last time I'd been on an antibiotic was but I did and also she wanted me to use a warm pact on my eye and I just thought I'd share with you what I used and how wonderfully it worked. I didn't have any rice in the house and Jim went to the store. He was going to pick up groceries so he picked up some long grain rice, not the minute rice. I don't know if the minute rice would work or not and I just put it in a clean old sock, put it on the plate, microwave it for 40 seconds and when the microwave went off I got another sock and I just put this inside it and you want to be able to move this around because this will probably last about 15 minutes and you want to make sure that you move the rice around you shake it around because you want to distribute the heat throughout the pack and then I just placed it on my eye for 20 minutes 15 or 20 minutes and I did that three or four times a day and that really did help but it'll work for any area of your body. You can make a long sock for back pain or you know hip pain or whatever and it does usually stay warm at least 15 minutes. So if you need warm and it almost feels moist. If you need a warm pack on something and you can also freeze these and it will work as a cold pack. So really a chalazium is a blocked gland and a sty is an infected gland or hair follicle and chalazium usually lasts about two to three weeks and it is reabsorbed and it's all good. Now I want to tell you how I got it you know when I I have a couple of ways I cleanse my face at night if I don't have on much makeup like today I have on mascara powder foundation blush and lipstick. So this evening when I go wash my face I will take my purity made simple put a small amount in my in my in the palm of my hand I wet my face first before I do that and then I take it and I'll put it on my eyelashes and then I pat the rest on my face and I work it in and I splash it off and my face is clean and my eyes aren't burnt. And if I have on more makeup I usually I will take my magic eraser cloth that's the first thing I do I go in and I get my makeup off and then I cleanse with purity. Well I have another cleanser that I like that I was using and what I did I forgot and I you know I got my face wet I put it in my palm of my hand rubbed it in my eyes and then around my face and I really really aggravated this eye in particular and so like for the next two days it was swollen it was red and I know what happened the inflammation caused the duct to close and liquid can you know stayed in there and that's what caused this swelling so I aggravated my eye and I won't do that anymore and I knew it had to be that because I don't put I don't put mascara on my bottom lashes I don't put eyeshadow very seldom it's been months and months since I put in the eyeshadow or and I never use a pencil eyeliner on my lower waterline so I knew it was something else that I did so that was the obvious culprit. So that's my Chalazian story if it helped you I'm glad it did and if you've watched me long enough you know how particular I am with my eyes I wash my eye brushes every time I use them I throw my mascara away after three months I do everything I can to avoid any type of problems I have seen many people with eye infections that's why I usually only have one tube of mascara open I use one eyeliner in my upper waterline because if something would happen and I get an inflammation or even an infection I know what the culprits could be but I thought I'd just share with you how I wash my eye brushes every day and it is just so easy. Whatever eye brushes I use I put them in a cup right after I've used them in my dressing room and when I'm done putting on my makeup I go into my bathroom take these with me and what I like to use and you can use anything I don't like to use chemical sprays I just like to use soap and water and I bought this for my face it's shea moisture African black soap I bought it like I said I bought it for my face and it was too harsh for my face but it is perfect for my brushes and I just keep it on a little plate I have one of these soap lifters that are wonderful and and my soaps on top when I go into the bathroom I run this under water I'll go ahead and do both sides just get some good soap on them I have two of these little scrubbies one of them is for my face and one of them is for brushes and I keep this in the cabinet with my brush and I just go around and around and around and work that soap in and then I rinse it off and I just lie it flat to dry couldn't it doesn't take two minutes and my eye brushes are always clean a viewer and a friend of mine Janet she left this comment on the video a couple of weeks ago it's how she can control if she has political ads or not as soon as this video goes live I am going to go in and I'm gonna paste her instructions in the very first comment so that way you can have a choice on what ads you want to watch in a video if you want to avoid the political ads but she said she uses an iPad I I do the YouTube red so I don't see anybody's ads so I don't know if it works or not for me on a computer but she said it works on her iPad I know I have talked before how much I do not enjoy summer the high dew point that we have and the high humidity I just don't feel as good and when I film a video I have to turn off my air conditioning I have to turn off fans and it's just not as comfortable to film so perhaps and I don't know I'm gonna try to do my best to upload a video every week but I might go to every other week through the summer I'm just gonna play it by ear I have a list of things that I still want to do one of the things I want to do is I want to show you my quilts and I'm I know how to sit down in front of my phone that's what I use as my phone and top but I'm not good about doing anything else so I'm gonna try to learn how to get some close-ups of my vintage quilts and I want to do that I have a list of things that I do I that I want to talk about some of them just aren't very relevant right now in what with everything that's going on but they will become relevant so I'll talk about them in another video in my empties video I got a lot of questions about being nigma and just because I like it doesn't mean anybody else will but I will tell you what I tried to use to replace it and I would try these items first I heard about being nigma from Natalie the beauty diva and she used it and she loved it and and I wanted and of course I wanted to try to she has gorgeous skin and she loves skincare so so I tried it and it was the very first moisturizer I used and I it just really did wonders for my skin then she told me to try honey skin that is one of them I tried so if I were you and you were looking for a moisturizer you might want to try some of these other things first the honey skin did not work with my I have really sensitive skin and I'm very prone to milia the honey skin didn't work for me the it cosmetics confidence in a cream was too thick the it cosmetics confidence in a gel ocean it was like I wasn't putting anything on and I tried that I think it was called vana cream bano cream it was a beef in a mask and I got milia from that so I had purchased four items to try to take the place and so far the dermatology SPF moisturizer is working so we'll have to wait and see but I would try other things before I would spend I think it's $70 or $60 a jar does last me eight to nine months and my other charts will last a lot longer because it's new in the refrigerator well it's three months old but I always keep it in the refrigerator I take half of it out I'm really hoping when it cools down that it'll continue working for me but my skin feels really good in the morning a couple of videos ago I wrote something in my video and just said that if you're still here we use the word random in your comment and you'll be entered for a $50 e-gift card well I went to random comment picker loaded my video and I had it searched for the word random and I had 52 people that left comments that use that word I press the button and the winner is make up fun with Olivia congratulations Olivia Olivia used to film videos several years ago she quit and she's back and I absolutely enjoy her and this is the first time in a long time that a YouTube content creator has won one of my giveaways so Olivia just make sure you leave a comment below and I'll let you know how to get in touch with me and we'll decide what kind of gift cards you want before I announce the winners of the giveaway I just want to remind you to always seek professional help for any issues that you have I just shared with you what my doctor recommended for me to do I want to thank you all for sharing with us what has brought you peace I have loved reading your comments and thank you again for sharing that with us the first name that popped up as a winner of the $50 e-gift card is Reba Patessi and I don't know if that's how you pronounce it or not but you won and the second winner of a $50 e-gift card is Brie Wells congratulations Reba and Brie and just make sure you leave a comment below and I'll let you know how to get in touch with me I want to congratulate all the winners and I want to thank you all for watching and for commenting I appreciate you so much and that you support my channel that you watch me it means a lot and it is all good and I hope you have a blessed day take care and I will see you in my next video to leave her I did make enough I didn't have any long grain oh my gosh I want to share with you that's just what I well I started also there's going to be a little shit