Well, it's not strep....

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Well, I finally went to the doctor (a few times actually) and found out that I had a staph infection in my throat.  She gave me some anitbiotics that didn't work, but did show me that I'm allergic to penacillin now (I developed a rash after finishing the medication, I seem to have delayed reactions to things I'm allergic to) and did some blood tests.  After I went in to have the rash looked at, I realized that my throat infection hadn't been cured yet, so I had to go in again and got some different anibiotics that seem to have killed it, even though I'm still really thirsty all of the time.  

The good news is that I don't have any indicators for diabetes (other than the non stop thirst), but I have high cholesterol (253 total with low HDL (good) and high LDL (Bad) cholesterol levels).  She looked at the results and said that I must have a family history of high cholesterol, and that considering my age she's reluctant to prescribe pills as I'd have to take them forever.  The really weird part is that my normal diet is basically the diet that is recommended for people with high cholesterol.  I hardly ever eat red meat (only every so often at fast food places), I occasionally eat chicken, I eat lots of veggies, little dairy and egg products, and I started eating cheerios with soy milk a few months ago.  I also started excercising last year and have been doing so regularly since then.  I'm starting to think that something went wrong with the test since my dad said the only family history on his side is a few overweight uncles and my mom's had a heart attack but no cholesterol problems.  So I'm either unique in my family or the test is wrong.  I'll be getting another one done in about six months and hopefully its results will be better.

In other news, I'm doing well in all of my classes and have been working pretty steadily for the last month.  So I now have $1000+ in the bank and should be getting a nice big check at the end of this month.  I think I might actually spend some of the money on myself and get a new Intuos 3 tablet for home so I can take my old one to work with me.  And I might also get that heart rate monitor that I've been eyeing since I started excercising.  Oh, my half-brother finally got his braces off after 6 years of having them on, now he's brushing his teeth all of the time.

That's all for now.

Happy Halloween (in case I don't write a new entry before then)
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