 Hey guys, so it's been a while since I did an HIV doctor visit. That's because I haven't been here in a while. My last appointment was I believe June or July of this year and I didn't go because I was dealing with anxiety and depression and I just wasn't in a mental space to take care of myself in that way. Doing a lot better now. So this is my first doctor's appointment I think in a year which is supposed to be every six months. So I'm back here and for those of you who are new to my channel and new to my content, I do this for all of my doctor's visits so that you can see that an HIV doctor's visit is a relatively painless experience. It's not scary. It's not some mysterious, weird, terrifying experience for those of us in the HIV community. It can be just like any other doctor's appointment with a couple extra questions. So stick around. Here we go. Hello, sir. Hey, how are you? Good, how are you? Good. Happy. It's Tuesday today. It is. It is. It's good that I'm vlogging by the way. Oh, camera's on. Hello. Hi. So how are you doing? I'm good. How are you? Good. You know, it's Tuesday. So we're here. I work from home today so it's better than Monday. I know. I missed the telehealth work from home days. They were nice. We were back full force. I saw you before but I don't think so. No, we've never been before. This is the first time. I'm Kevin. Hi. How are you? How are you? So we're just doing the follow-up today, right? Just regular follow-up. That is correct. I missed my last one. I think it was June or July. Okay. But everything's going okay. Victoria will be fine. No issues. Do you have any content to speak in? No. You can see the show. Do you want anything? No. A lot of work. What do you do for work? I work with my parents at their manufacturing plant. Oh, nice. Okay. And then I also do HIV advocacy content creation. So I'll talk to, like, AHA if I partner with them. Oh, exactly. Okay, so I'll head to them. And then, yeah, AKLA and stuff. I actually was like almost full, full time doing content creation right after the pandemic. And then... The pandemic. And then I kind of... Can't justify. My parents were there ready to, like, coach me. They've been wanting me to work for them for a while. For a while. And it was the time that they took you. Oh, yeah. Yeah. And we'll just do routine lab stuff, right? Everything else okay? No other issues? Can I also get my ears cleaned today? Sure. Like a lot of wax? Typically. Oh, this one is okay. The other ear is fine, especially your left ear. I have a feeling. Are you doing the injectables? We did start doing the injectables. I was at... I'm just asking because I've been updated on that. Yeah. I mean, it's good, right? It's... I think it's a little hard, I mean, to... Is it the logistics of scheduling? Yeah. I mean, it takes a lot of manpower to do it. I think it's also... I mean, for me, I mean, I'm also positive. And for me to want to take a shot every month, they'd have to come to the clinic every month is would be a lot for me. Yeah. Because it's like, you can't give it to yourself at home, right? So you have to take it. That's kind of my... So for me, I'm just like, I'd rather take a pill every day than, you know, have to come into the clinic. Next year, it's supposedly going to be approved for two months, every two months. So that'd be a little more probable. Yeah. I mean, so I think it's great if people want it and there's a lot of reasons for people. I mean, I think it's a... For the real... The true person who really needs it, I think it's a very specific person, right? I think it's a person who does not... Doesn't miss appointments, right? Because you don't want someone who misses meds and misses appointments because, you know, you can become resistant to these shots, right? So... And... But, you know, someone who misses... There has trouble taking their meds or misses their meds. I think it's a great, great option, right? And there's some people I have who are on it who just feel a lot of stigma taking a pill every day, you know? And that's pretty psychologically. Psychologically, it's helpful. And I think it's great. And some people just take a lot of pills too. And they just want to reduce their pill burden by, you know, one. And that's helpful too. So I mean, I think it's great. I think, too, there's... I mean, for HIV meds, right, there's a lot of really great things coming down the line, right? I think when it goes to two months, I think it's going to be very big. You know, it's going to be approved for PrEP too, I think next year. Oh, cool. You know, there's going to... There's a couple meds coming down that'll be like, maybe Q, every twice a year, injectables, you know? And that will... Now we're talking. Yeah, and that's like a game-changing thing. I think that's really... Like, for me, that's something I would want to do. For sure. But yeah, so I mean, I would say it's a certain type of patient who wants the injectable. And I think it's great for people at works, right? We're kind of moving towards two-drug therapy, right? And send three. You know, I think people are becoming more uncomfortable, you know, suppressing people in two-drugs versus three, if it's the right two-drugs. What's the name of the injectable? Or is there multiple? So there's only one right now, right? That's approved. And that's Kevinuva. So Kevinuva's the injectable. So when that consists of two drugs, right? One's a capytegra beer and the other one's E-durant, you know? So an integracein and an RTI. So, but they... I'm not like, I know what you're talking about. Oh, not to you. Yeah, okay. So it's two classes of drugs, right? So one, one that's in Victoria, basically, right? And another one that is... was a drug that was in Odesi, right? So that was... Then they can combine. So it's two shots. It's in the... It's a lot of fluid, especially the first dose. It'll be a lot of fluid. So it's like three CCs, three MLs on each side, for the first dose. For me, it's two, so that's less. So it's not for everybody. Sometimes it hurts. It supposedly gets better as people get the shots. It doesn't hurt as much. But for every two months, it's always going to be three CCs of fluid. Yeah, no, it's great. It's great drugs, but we're doing really exciting time for HIV. All right. Well, so let us... You got your food shot. Thank you. And... Getting my booster. Getting your booster. Great. Like a week. And we will just do your blood work today. And I sent all your refills to Premiere. Excellent. All right. Well, it was a pleasure meeting you. You too. So just hang here, and I'll send Julie in, and then you can get out of here. Okay. Oh, let me put the gear irrigation in. Then there'll be, you know, a few minutes. I've got the drops in and stuff. Okay? All right. All right. So hang here. It's nice meeting you. You too. Okay. Bye, Ray. You don't work too hard this weekend. All right, guys. So that was that. As you can see, pain-free, relatively easy. I really like it at APLA because their doctor's appointments are very personal, as you can see. They really want to know how you're doing, not just medically, but also in life in general, and ask those key questions that make you feel like you're not just a number, but natural patient. So now someone's going to come and clean out this ear. This is the one that always typically gets backed up and then draw some blood. I already did my urine earlier because when I got here, I really had to go to the bathroom. So got that out of the way, and then I'll be done. All right. So here we go. Which ear was it again? This one. Okay. Get it started. Drops. Yeah. People always ask me, like, what are they doing with your ear? What is that? We'll say that. Like just people commenting. Oh, really? Yeah. Oh, you're a blogger? Yeah. Oh, okay, nice. I know I have my little, I do a little bit of tube seven right now. I called her because she was very scrawny, very tiny, and I'm like, child, you need to eat more. And COVID hit and all of a sudden she went from an extra small to a 10, 12 when she's seven. Oh. Yeah. So I'm like, God, COVID hits you hard. She's healthy now? Yes, she is. She's thick. She's a big bone. I wanted her to gain some weight, but not that much. No, it's like getting physical again. Oh, yeah. That's the hard part for them because they have gymnastics and they have cheer. Oh, nice. Yeah. That's good. They didn't want to do exercise no more because they were so like, used to the whole year that they were out of sports and stuff. Yeah. A lot of their back, it's like, I'm tired. Do they enjoy it? Yeah, they do. They actually like more gymnastics than cheer. Is it different dealing with COVID? Yes, it is. We used to see, I think, more patients before COVID. Because you're limiting it or they're just not coming? So I know that they were limiting it at first. Now we're just kind of opening it all up, even Saturday. Yeah, they're doing two Saturdays now. We're going back to the same routine as we were before. It's good because I think we all need it. Do you want me to sit in a chair? You can have me help her today. I'm going to have you hold on to this and you could go ahead and remove the mask from one side because it is going to get wet. Just hold it on really tight here. Tilt this way. Which way? This way, towards me. Let me know if at any point I'm hurting you. Okay. Coming up. All ready? Usually it's really stubborn. That was probably the maximum pressure I can get. I think we might be done. Yeah? Oh, I hope so. That looks disgusting. Oh, you're clear? Yes, that's worth it. Yeah, here. I'm getting real personal. I don't know. I'm going to dump this over here. I did it when I got here. Okay, awesome. Thank you so much. All right, bye.