so this just kind of has helped you further your career, I guess, further establish your, who you are as a medical coder. Right. Right. Okay. All right. All right. And so now I'm stumped, Laura, because like you had you had all of this experience. Like how many years of experience did you have prior to being certified? Um, well, like I said, about 10 years experience in the medical billing field, but only about six to eight actually medical coding experience. COVID happens. I'm noticing this a lot, this, that COVID has either set people on a path to finally get certified or they are in a completely different career field and jumped into medical coding because of COVID. So here you are, you finally have this because of the layoff and get certified. And what was that process like? Did you sign up for our education and tutorials prior to taking the exam? I actually found out about some funding to work one because I was on unemployment and which led me to the instructor that I had, Lois Wittaker, and she helped me get everything to go through and that's how I got my funding and got it paid for. Everything went through great. It was a great experience. And how valuable was all of your previous work history in preparing you for the exam? Did you feel like you had to hit the books hard? I don't know if you took practice exams and did you tell us about that? I didn't try to take any practice exams. There's still a lot. I felt like that I learned in the class and there was, you know, the guidelines and everything is it was, you know