Welcome to another edition of I am a PC. Today we have Pam Brooks with us who is featured as a member of the month in our May 2022 issue of health care business monthly. Pam, how are you? I'm doing great. How about you? Alex, thanks for having me. Oh, you bet. I'm excited to learn more about your history and career in the in the health care field. And I know we've talked at past conferences and I know you've been a member of the National Advisory Board. So you have a long history with AAPC. But before we get to there, why don't you tell us a little bit about how you fell into the career of medical coding and the business side of health care. Sure, I'd be happy to and fall into it is really an apt phrase. My first career choice was actually fashion. When I left high school and you know really long time ago I went to a program that was a fashion merchandising program where I did a little bit of design, display, actually did some modeling and it sounded like an awesome idea and a lot of fun, but then you know, you may know that I'm originally from Maine, live in Maine. And Maine is not exactly the fashion capital of the world. So although there was work in retail, it wasn't very exciting. And so I did it for a little while, I didn't enjoy working nights, holidays, weekends, and I wanted kind of a regular life. So I actually went to work for a factory and I worked in a factory for eight years, and I got to say, one of the things that I learned in that kind of a work environment was how to be