You know you're a singer when....

You've got a cold and you love it!! Well, I don't love it. I could do without all the coughing and the sore throat. But the great thing about colds is that it broadens your singing range for as long as you have the cold! (At least it does for me, being a person who can still sing with a cold!) I'm already both an alto and a soprano to begin with (I can do both parts equally well), so now that I can hit even lower and higher notes, I love it! Although I can't wait for the cold to go away, I will miss my new range.....

Anyway, I went to a doctor's appointment yesterday. Ever been to the hospital so many times that you start to recognize patients? This teenage guy named Camden and I said hi to each other because we were both patients of the same doctor and we'd recognized each other from previous appointments! So, anyway, the doctor switched my medication (again). We showed her all the medications I've tried (which I think I'm up to 14 now) and even though she prescribed half of them, she said, "Wow, this is impressive...." The old medicine I got taken off of, the side effects were terrible. First, it changed the taste of food, especially soda. Soda tasted flat and watered down, and tomato sauce just tasted nasty. Nothing tasted right. Secondly, it made you lose weight. I lost ten pounds, and I couldn't gain it back because thirdly, it made me lose my appetite. When I was 11 and 12 years old, I was called the "bottomless pit" because I could eat and eat and eat and never get full (my friend called me the "gifted bottomless pit" because I could eat, never get full, and not gain a single pound of weight). Nowadays, Mom scolds me because I'm never hungry for lunch (or for breakfast, but she makes me eat something for that), and I eat very little for dinner.

So I'm glad to be off of it. I'm glad soda will have its kick again. But this new medicine has a side effect of weight GAIN. I'm perfectly fine with being 120 lbs, I don't really want to gain back much of what I lost! Anyway, this December I'm going to Riley's Children's Hospital in Indianapolis (it's a very well known hospital around the nation) and we're waiting to see what they say we should do, because the last resort (since we've tried everything else) is steroids. My doctor doesn't really want to do that because I'm so young and because of the nasty side effects, but if nothing else will work, then I will probably be put on steroids. We're just waiting to hear from Riley's.

That's where I am. Please keep praying!

~*~Rach~*~

P.S. Random question. Who's the tallest kid in your youth group? We've got a kid in ours who's 15 years old, 9th grade, and is 6'7". Grew 7 inches in one summer. And he's not even full height yet. He says he could possibly be 6'10" by the time he's done growing. He's the only 9th grader (well, he and the one that's 6'2") that the adults look up to talk to ;)