 All right. Well, I'm just going to jump into this video again, similar to our last video that I had posted about a week ago. Uh, today is actually Valentine's Day, uh, 2023. And I'm going to do a little bit of an update on things, uh, concerning my health and, uh, how things have been going for me since I've been out of the hospital. And look, this video, I'm going to tell you some things here at the beginning. This video is mainly for, um, my friends, um, my business colleagues and the people that are my customers, as well as like family and close friends. That way, um, you know, I want there to be kind of a record of what's been going on with me and what's been happening and, uh, sorry, the dog is in the background, uh, messing with something. So he might come in here and join us. But, um, anyway, I am doing these videos to kind of just document what had happened specifically to me. This doesn't lie concern really any grand scheme of things or anything else that might be happening. Uh, so my actions in these videos is to just discuss what has been going on with my event, with my myocarditis. And, you know, normally this channel is dedicated to tech. I just think that right now I want to keep everybody in the loop of things with me as I'm trying to get better. So, um, I just wanted to get that out of the way. Now, the other thing is, uh, I did wind up turning on monetization on the last video and then I'll have monetization on on this video. And the reason being for that is just because that money will go and help me, um, with costs on anything that comes up. Look, I do have insurance, but in the United States of America, um, insurance is usually accompanied by things called co-insurance, co-pays, um, deductibles. And so I don't want anything, you know, like I don't need any kind of like charity money or anything, but please do know that the that's the reason the video is monetized in that little bit does will help, uh, for anything that comes up because, uh, today I had to go in finally for my first checkup since leaving the hospital and I left the hospital last Sunday. Since then I've been home recuperating, trying to get my energy levels back. Um, I've just been kind of dealing with a lot of fatigue. That's kind of understandable and what I would expect, um, from what happened, but I have been dealing with that and I've been trying to get my energy level back up. And, uh, so anyway, today, today was my first experience with an MRI. Um, I had to go get an MRI done of my heart and it's a follow-up. It was the first follow-up thing that I've had since being out of the hospital. And then, um, so I thought I would give you kind of, uh, experience on how that MRI was because I honestly had no idea how it was going to go, what, what really was the ex, you know, what was to expect from it. So I thought if you want to know, I'll give you some details on how my MRI went, but, um, first I just got up this morning, uh, took my kids into school, dropped them off and then went straight to the, uh, clinic out by the hospital and it's actually a part of the hospital. That's why I have a hospital band still on. And so, um, I got checked in there. I got into a waiting room with a technician that was a nurse and he kind of explained to me what the MRI was and how it was going to go. And so, um, you know, when you start getting, I told what it is, I think that's the moment where you might start to have fear build up. That's when I started to feel a little nervous was when he was explained in the process because getting a heart MRI, uh, what I had to do was I had to go in a tube that, um, if you have any kind of fear of small places, it could be an issue. It's, it's a pretty much a solid, uh, tube that they slide you in. I think they said it was like four feet around. I mean, there was not much space between my head and the top of this tube. I could lean back and look up and see outside of it. I mean, but it was still probably a foot longer than my head. And so anyway, to get, to get in there, you have to get undressed, take off any jewelry, make sure you have no metal on you. Um, unfortunately, COVID protocols are still in place at the hospital. So you do have to wear a mask the whole time. So you have to wear a mask. Um, you know, I don't care whether you want to wear a mask. I'm just saying that you have to wear a mask. So I had to wear a mask the whole time inside the tube. And then, um, I was wearing just some scrub pants, uh, my underwear, and then a gown shirt. And of course, I had to have the open gown shirt on the front because they had a bunch of sticky tabs on my chest where they were monitoring, monitoring things. Um, I did have a pillow behind my head and then I did have an IV hooked up because they were going to administer, um, something later on in the test. So anyway, I, at first I was hearing about this test. I had no idea I was going to have to get an IV again, but I was like, okay, it makes sense. And IV was again, to send in, um, a contrast chemical or medicine that supposed to make a contrast view of your heart for the imaging, uh, that goes on in the MRI. So anyway, the IV, you know, you get your, your plug put in for your IV by the nurse. If you get into your gowns, let go put all your stuff. I had to go put all my things in the locker and then I went back and I drank a glass of water and then I was just taken right into the MRI machine again, where it's this tube. And I was explained to, you know, they did put some nodes on my chest again to monitor my heart. They, uh, and my vital signs, they connected the contrast medicine to my IV. They gave me a little ball to hold in my left hand and then it had a wire coming out of it. And, uh, that was in case I had any kind of like fear or I needed a break. I could squeeze that and they would take me out because the process takes an hour once you're in the tube. And once you're in the tube, um, not only they have all that stuff hooked up, but there's something they put on your chest or my chest, they put a thing on my chest that looked almost like a piece of body armor. Really. It was just like a flak jacket or something, uh, with some holes in it. And so that was on the chest. They gave me some headphones and they just had it on classic rock. They asked me what I wanted to listen to, but I was destroyed. I couldn't think of anything. So I just went with the classic rock and the only thing I could think about was, all right, I'm going to count how many songs and once I get to like 20 songs, it'll have been an hour, maybe like, you know, about 20 classic rock songs. So anyway, you have to get in this tube. They just, the machine sucks you in there. It's making all kinds of weird sounds. And, uh, then you go into these breathing. I don't know what it's called exercises patterns so they can do your imaging. So the whole time you're laying there and I just try to close my eyes and go away to that like special place in my mind that just like lets me escape all this stuff while I'm in it. But at the same time, there's an automated voice going off that's telling you breathing instructions. So it's like take a deep breath in, now take a deep breath out and hold your breath. And then you have to hold your breath and then the machine starts going crazy. And all I could say is it sounds like you're being, and it feels like you're being in like a Xerox machine. And you're like a tiny person inside of Xerox machine and the things going past you over and over again for anywhere from like five to probably the longest would have been like 10 to 15 seconds on how long I had to hold my breath. And that was just so that the images could get a good picture of my chest and my heart and get through everything. And like my understanding was so my lungs wouldn't be expanded and full of air. It's harder to take a picture through your lungs to get to the heart. So that's why the breathing instructions were important. But the whole time you're in this tube and again you can't, you can't move at all. Like that's the whole thing. They tell you to is you have to stay still to make these images come out good. So you don't need to move at all. So all you're doing is laying there and listening to these commands and listening to the songs in the background on these headphones they've put on to try to make the Xerox machine that's going off. That sounds so loud. So that continued for no joke probably 40 minutes of just that the commands and then you take a break in between the commands for like 20 seconds and then they do another command and it would just keep going and going and going. And then they would administer the the medicine the contrast medicine through with the IV and then they take another round of pictures after that after it's gotten through your heart. And I mean that's always a weird feeling to me because I can always feel when these IVs happen and you can feel the medicine or whatever's really been put in there. Once it starts going in you can kind of feel it you know it's coming in your bloodstream and it's just I don't know to me it's always an eerie feeling but that was administered I had to sit there for another 20 minutes and do more images and at this the whole time too you're not wearing a lot of clothes I was only allowed to wear my socks and my scrubs that they had given me and and I had to remain still and then there's cold air blowing over you due to the heat from the machine and to kind of give you oxygen so you don't feel like you're you know claustrophobic it's blowing cool air so my hands and my feet especially started getting really cold especially when I couldn't move them for an hour so if you do have to do an MRI I would recommend wearing like two or three pairs of cotton socks just to keep your feet warm that's about the only thing I could say that was the hardest part when I had to stay still after a while my feet really started to feel cold and get numb but that's the whole experience so I got out of there they cleaned me up you know got me back in my street clothes and they told me that I needed to go home it was going to be thousands of images they were compiling for this MRI and then I have a follow-up appointment in about nine days with a specialist to talk about what actually you know is a result from that MRI and anything else and if there's anything else that's going to happen I will know at that appointment so that's kind of what has happened since then I will tell you that I was feeling really great up to this point but I can't tell that the MRI and everything that was done in that process did it make me tired again so I feel like it was a good thing but it was maybe a little bit of a setback to my energy I'm gonna you know continue to work on building the energy this week and just rest some more so that I can try to get back to 100% I mean I will admit that I'm a little bit nervous about doing a lot to stress my heart out and I think I think about it a lot now because I mean why wouldn't I after having this thing happen but I haven't experienced any pain or anything since then so everything seems to be good as far as good can be and again look I mean I don't know what you expect from me in these videos if you're expecting something else and you're not somebody that I personally know or something or you know a normal audience member that's here that's just concerned with my health I just I'm gonna have to keep going on and I really do want these to be here in case something does happen to me I mean I don't know you know none of us are guaranteed any time here on this earth and so I mean my advice is to be ready because you just never know what's gonna happen and I don't know what's gonna happen I don't know what's gonna happen to me but as for now I'm going to continue to update you things like this I will be filming an episode of the cathode ray podcast with Lewis tomorrow if you want more information on that you can of course go check out Zez retro and all the things that we do over there and that Lewis does so I'll have a discussion with him kind of go through a little bit more deeper on things and just leave it at that and hopefully soon we'll be able to get back to some actual crt stuff some you know normal things around here because I do still have some great great plans set up here but anyway that's the update I really appreciate your support and all the kind words and I'll just say have a wonderful day