I get told I don't look good by the alchemists all the time even when I don't have a disease...go figure

How can you hate it if you don't even know you have it? that's my problem with diseases - even in real life if all I have is a bloody cold - I know, and I love to complain about it. In Skyrim, I never feel the effect well enough to cause any problems.

Turn around and head back towards Helgem(not sure of spelling) you will see a fork in the road,while looking at road sign to the right you should see what looks like logs forming stairs, follow these and it will lead you to a shrine of Talos.

Lol, i was just about to say that. Like 10 years ago, i remember catching Witches Pox on one of my char's when he was far from town and didn't have a Potion of Purification or any Cure Disease spells, whenever i'd attempt to fast travel to the nearest city with a Temple, i'd arrive dead. I also fought a Vampire for awhile to catch Vamprism, and when i did, i also caught the Bubonic Plague (Black Death), and i'd die before i could turn into a Vampire. Pissed me off, because i had to cure it along with Vampirism, which Vampires only had a 0.6% chance of infecting you with Vampirism, so you had to let them beat on you for awhile, which also more often than not, got you diseased with something nasty. Vampires, Mummies and Zombies carried the nastiest sort of diseases, crap that would drop you dead within a few days.