I bet this is the first cholesterol post you've read today

When I turned 30, I decided to go in for a complete physical since it had been nearly 10 years since my last one. I even had bloodwork done. As a kid I was told I had high cholesterol (you could find me in the Husky section at Sears), but I don't remember it being a big deal since no one made me do anything.. and I was pretty good at doing nothing. Not much had changed at 30 when my bloodwork came back and my total cholesterol was 278. "High Risk" is 240 or greater, so I was at the top of the class. That was September 2004.

A few weeks ago, I donated blood at the blood drive held at work. Today I got the cholesterol results back from my donation. Can you believe it is down to 234?! That's a 44-point drop since two years ago. I won't bore you with exercise talk anymore (by the way, did I mention I took 1st place in the Chief Joseph Run?). However, I guess eating oatmeal for breakfast every morning really DOES work, in combination with regular exercise. "Borderline" cholesterol level is 201-239, so I'm at the high end of "borderline", but that's better than the high end of "high risk".

Sorry if you don't care; I was just pretty jazzed about it, and it's my blog.