 Hey weirdos, it's Darren and I wanted to give you a quick update on that post I made several days ago about how thankful I was, that you were there for me, that I was able to actually now be able to afford the medication that was so expensive and yet my insurance company had not yet approved it. Well, the insurance company still hasn't come through on that, but then again it's the holiday weekend and I'm sure something will be figured out within the next week or two, but that's okay because I've got a month of that med because I was able to purchase it myself thanks to you listening to the podcast. Well I told you in that post that the medication could possibly be a game changer for me, a life changer, literally, I think is actually what I said. Well they said that the medication, it's testosterone by the way, I don't think I mentioned that, it turns out that I had low T, so I finally found a doctor who would prescribe that. I've gone through years and years and years of being without energy, sleeping 14 hours a day or 12 hours a day usually, having the depression and everything else, which I still am on meds for by the way, but then again it's early. But the testosterone I was told by the doctor could take several weeks to really take effect for me to feel it in its full capacity. So I might actually start feeling even better in the weeks to come, but I can tell you that in the last five days I have been happier, I have had more energy, it really has literally been a game changer, a life changer for me. I am thrilled with how I feel now. I wake up and I don't have the vertigo as much as I used to. My migraines are practically gone, which is odd. I didn't realize the testosterone had anything to do with migraines, and maybe it's just a coincidence, but hey, I'll take it. In fact, maybe this is the placebo effect, maybe it really hasn't taken effect yet because it could take weeks to take effect, and maybe this is just my mind tricking me into thinking that I'm feeling better and I don't care. Send me sugar water to take, and tell me that it's medicine if it works for me, right? But I am feeling amazing right now. I am now able to get up and get started on my day. I should be able to do more now, things that I have been wanting to do for who knows how long, like start doing the audiobooks like I really used to instead of taking three years to do a book for one particular author, which I still feel crappy about, but he was so cool about it, and he's already given me another book to narrate because he just likes Weird Darkness and he likes me, and that's a friendship right there, even though I've never met the guy, but I've been able to do that. I actually felt like going out with my bride and going out to lunch, which hasn't happened in a long while. We haven't gone out. Granted, the pandemic kept you, you know, kept all of us from going out and doing anything. So even if I was in the mood to go out and go out to launch her dinner or something, we wouldn't have been able to. But even since we got our shots and everything, I just wasn't really feeling up to it. Now I'm actually asking her out. She says that my playfulness is back, that her husband, the one that she married, is here and she hasn't seen her husband in ten years. I have all of this to thank you for. You are the reason that I was able to get the meds and get on this track. If the insurance never comes out, if for some reason they decline it and it is a controlled substance, so I know that's a possibility. But even if they do, I'm actually in a position now, it's not fun to spend $400 a month on one particular medication. But if that's what it takes, I'm okay. Because you have made Weird Darkness a successful podcast, which I never thought was possible. I started doing this back in 2015, goodness gracious, six years ago, wow, it's been that long. I started doing this in 2015 just because I thought it might be fun. I needed a creative outlet because my quote-unquote real job, even though I love the company that I work for, it just wasn't real creative. If you know me at all throughout my life, I'm so right-brained, I needed something to get my creative rocks off. And that's what I tried just to see, and it just happened to take off. But I would never expect to be where I am today with a podcast. Nobody is successful in podcasts unless you're Joe Rogan or somebody, you know? And of course, I'm not nearly close to that level. I don't think I ever want to be close to that level, that's too much for me. But my wife and I, we've actually said in the past that our definition of wealth is just being able to go to the grocery store without first having to balance the checkbook to make sure we have enough for groceries. That's it. That is our definition of being rich. And because of you, we are finally there now. But I can get this medication that has just been an amazing, amazing change for me. Today, Independence Day, it sort of has a double meaning for me because I feel my freedom again. I finally feel independent from whatever it was that was keeping me down. I have you, I have God, I have my bride and my doctors to thank for it. I cannot thank you enough. I wish I could message each individual one of you and say thank you, but there's just way too many of you. And I don't think that even being, I don't think that even posting on Facebook would be enough because not all of you follow on Facebook or are in the group or anything like that. So I'm putting this into the podcast just to let you know how thankful I am for each and every one of you for changing my life. So thank you. I hope you're having a great holiday weekend. If you're in the U.S., if you're elsewhere in the world, I hope you're having an amazing Sunday. God bless and you'll be hearing from me again tomorrow with another episode.