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[RCRanger03]

Awesome I'm glad i could bring you fully into the fold. Now take that new bonafideness and start sharing, and recieving all the knowledge and support this place has to offer.

Also i was wondering if it was possible to drink too much water? I was nasty sick on Sunday, and started drinking ridiculous amounts of water. I lost the sickness but i have this ridiculous cough ever since. Like sometimes i'll go into these hacking fits and it will pull up this nasty greenish yellow mucus stuff. Anyways it helps combat the coughs to drink water, and i've been ridiculously thirsty laterly (possibly accutane side effect). So the last three days i've been drinking like 2 or 3 gallons of water a day. To put it simply my pee is so clear and pure that aquafina has contacted me about becoming a bottling source. I just want to know if drinking that much water can be harmful?

Quote of the Day
In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.

From the mind of Senor Cervantes. Don't we all find ourself battling windmills one time or another.

Oh and i saw my favorite twilight zone episode yesterday "The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street" awesome awesome episode capped off with my favorite monologue that Rod Serling ever gave. "The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs, and explosions, and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, ideas, predjudices, to be found only in the minds of men. For the record, predjudices can kill and suspicion can destroy. A thoughtless, freightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all it's own for the children yet unborn. And the pity of it is, is that these things can not be confined to the Twighlight Zone.”

Til another day my friends

[Thanatos•]

Yoyo,

2.5 - 3 litres of water a day is the optimum amount! Try not to exceed that though.. Too much of anything isn't good ;]!

Good luck!

[ClareB]

Yes, it is definitely possible to drink too much water, but by your description of the amount of water you are drinking, it doesn't sound like you are at risk for water intoxication.

Here's a link to some info on water intoxication http://chemistry.abo...lwaterintox.htm

[wanabeacnefree]

Based on even just the title this is officially the coolest log EVER!!! Keep us posted!

Yes! keep us posted, your writing skills are the best!!!

BTW the extra part of this title is from The Pretenders song Message of Love. Great quote though!

[ewok]

Yes it IS possible to become intoxicated by water and die from it. It is very rare and you would need to drink around 15 liters in a short amount of time but it is possible. So be careful with that.

[RCRanger03]

Thanks for all the info peoples yall are like my own personal Mythbusters. Knock on wood but i think im moving from active acne to needing to deal with red marks. So i especially wanted to get yalls advice on how to go about dealing with it. I've been to the other forums and read a bunch of their posts, but yall are my patrons so i thought i'd give yall a say. I need something cheap though right now i have $7 in my checking account, but more can procured for a noble cause. Just realize that I'm a college student living in a Resident Dorm so i dont really have all the amminities. Tank You

I know all yall have been clammoring for a second bank of pictures, and i do believe i have a date to give yall. September 25 should bring more pictures, bc i have to go home and do the derm truffle shuffle (Goonies reference HOLLA).

I'm taking my first collegiate test today in Intro Geology so wish me luck, or rather wish me an A or rather come and rough up my professor and tell him if he doesnt give me an A something bad will happen to his dog or rather become my professor and give me A's all the time or rather make me the professor ..... yeah i'm done now ...... or rather im finished or rather ........................

As for my byline, it may be in that song, but it originated in Oscar Wilde's "Lady Windemere's Fan"

Quote of the Day
“But I, being poor, have only my dreams. I have spread my dreams under your feet; tread softly, because you tread on my dreams.”

Mr. Yeats with some beautiful prose. The way i see this is a plea from everyone to everyone, because we all tread on each others dreams.

Hope for a time when acne is a thing of history, hope for children and grandchildren that never feel its searing touch. I hope every day every waking moment, because If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.

Good Morning and in case i dont see ya Good Afternoon Good Evening, and Good Night

[RCRanger03]

Apparently saying "Knock on wood" doesnt actually work as well as actually doing it. I woke up this morning to a nice breakout of mostly little cysts and some reinflamation of some old ones.

My Horn's squeezed out another one, but with Oklahoma beating people by at least 50 every game. We better just beat rice by 150 so our margins can be the same for the Shoot Out.

Quote of the Day

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

George Elliot with one of my favorites for keeping my chin up. I know many of you have "lost" many precious years to this harsh condition, but aren't the most precious years the ones that have yet to come. I know its hard, but dont let it take more then you've already given to it.

Laters

[RCRanger03]

I'm not going to lie Sunday was a wickedly hard day for me. A nice little surprise breakout that started out the weekend apexed, and alas painful and ugly acne may be, but reason to miss Sunday mass it is not. So i get all dressed up and head over to church, and find myself a nice end seat on a pew. A nice little family with a baby takes the pew directly in front of me and they kneel down to pray and let their baby look around and do its cute little baby thing. So then their little girl who had been fidgeting around pops up next to the baby who happened to be in a staring contest with me (I was winning I swear I could feel him about to blink) anyways in a very loud "its just between me and you but everyone else listen if they want" voice she turned to her mom and goes "Ewwwwwww whats wrong with his face mommy." Her mom turns and smiles a little half smirk at me and i shrug non chalantly because i dont really care. Then little miss fidget said "Mommy i dont like him make him go away." The mom turned to say something whether to apologize or ask me to leave, but i was already on the move. I found another end seat, but my thoughts were swimming. Had I really fallen so far. From a pretty decently good looking fellow if i do say myself to Mr. Scarelittlechildrenbylookingatthem in just one summer. Normally i would just blow it off, a manuever i've become very apt at, but it had come so unexpectantly in just about the only place where I let the armor down (to really get anything out of church you have to be open). It hit me hard, and was only the start of a plain awful day. Just one of those days that it seems like the whole world is out get you, or if not that then its just pretending like you dont exist. I know i preach this whole happy go lucky approach to acne survival, but this shows that at times im just as vulnerable as the person who posts about how acne is ruining their life. So i thought i'd share a little of that with you, because honestly in this new world of college, you guys are the only ones who have the faintest idea of who i am. I'm a very hard person to know, especially in person. You all have the benifit of reading my words of which im much more efficient in communicating than with speech.

Anyways i'm feeling much better now and my breakout is clearly on the decline. So that concludes the emotional part of our program. Consider yourself lucky because it doesnt happen very often. Usually only in very spirtual atmospheres (church, retreats, confession) and sometimes with familiy. I consider this a bridging experience because i consider you peoples my familiy in a way. Brothers and Sisters in Arms.

Quote of the Day

People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.

Elizabeth Kubler-Ross with words that made smile on a day where smiles were sadly lacking. Stay thirsty my friends, not for beer, but for life.

PS this is an amazing song Andrew bird and Nora O'Connor - Oh Sister (Bob Dylan Cover)

[ClareB]

(((RCR)))

Hugs, not because I pity you, but because I relate. Kids are honest and sometimes the truth is not what we want to hear. They are raised in a society where beauty is emphasized above all else, and unfortunately our wicked little disease does not conform to that social norm.

Glad to hear you're keeping your chin up.

[A Knee]

For the red marks (if you somehow missed this), Apple cider vinegar (or i think most vinegars) will help reduce them

PS: i like your blog, its real big
(can anyone guess the movie that came from?? )

[RCRanger03]

Could it be a Napoleon Dynamite adaptation? I think in the movie the quote was "I like your sleeves, They're real big". Thats my guess anyways.

[RCRanger03]

Well well its been a while for our standards. I take my last pill of perscription 1 tomorrow and head back home for the first time on tuesday for my derm appointment. And that means PICTURES!!!! The stuff on my cheeks is trying to go away, but the new battle front is the big squishies (Quarter sized) that is submarining my wild John The Baptist beard. Where they come up all the hair falls out and makes me Patchtastic. I did have a painful stretch yesterday were it felt like those scarab beetles were making munchies of my subdermis (My skin was so itchy it felt like it was crawling and it was quite painful too) I have had a wierd kind of pang in my lower abdomen (Below the ribcage but above the hips and little to the right side) It kinda feels like hunger but im not THAT food deprived, granted i am eating exceptionally less than i did at home during the summer due to finacial lacking. I dunno if i should mention it to the derm bc i really dont want to give him any reason to take me off.

Alright i'm off to watch Burn Notice, and in case ive never mentioned in im kind of a TV Series Glutton. Here's my lineup of shows that im going to try and fit in.

Prison Break (I liked the premier, especially the silky smooth Mahoney assassain move, William Fitchner has pretty much been a baller since Equilibrium)

Heroes (Last season ended pretty neatly, and yet left so many questions. I dont think i've ever hated a villian as much as Syler, or loved an asian as much as Hiro. Yatta my friends Yatta)

Lost (I've put my heart into every cuckoo for coaco puffs twist and turn for the entirety of the series, but Charlies death had to be the most contrived main character death ever. He could have had tea and crumpets before that place filled with water, and THEY HAD SCUBA TANKS. Sorry still frustrated about that, and Jacks impersonation of Grizzly Adams made me laugh in a confused way

Bones (That girl who does the facial reconstructions can reconstruct me whenever she wants, I love girls who are alot smarter than i am.)

House (Hugh Laurie's accent amazes me every time i hear it. Plus he is funny as hell, and i love seeing him verbally abuse his minions

Stargate Atlantis (They finally ended my favorite tv series Stargate SG1 last season, but Carter is on Atlantis and so is Kaylee from Firefly so i expect a money seaon for Atlantis)

Eureka (A town full of geniuses would be like eden for me. Plus with all the women being smarter than me ......)

Burn Notice (Its like bond, but every week, with more humor, Alcoholic Bruce Campbell, and do it yourself instructions) Edit: Season Ended Tonight bummer


Quote of the Day

Never look down on anybody unless you're helping them up.

Jesse Jackson. It doesnt really need explaining. Laters

[i'd rather dance with you]

AHH! Your stomach pain! Be careful it's not appendicitis..I got that like a month ago lol. I hope it goes away fast!

[jm216]

this is the best log ever. your words inspire me. keep posting! that is all.

[RCRanger03]

I think you're the best log ever .... if log means person

All done with the first box 30 pills 600 mg of Sotret. Does the perscription usually get raised after the first month? My derm hasn't revealed his plans to me.

I'm looking for a decisive win from the Horns for once, seeing as Rice hasnt been us in the last 13 years and havent beat us in Austin since long before i was born. Also GO ALABAMA! GO SOUTH CAROLINA! GO KENTUCKY!

Thats all for today folks. I'm gonna go make my famous Bacon Ranch Hoagie (real bacon ranch dressing chopped black olives deli sliced colby jack cheese hard salami, and pastrami on toasted wheat bun ..... its what heaven is made of). Laters

Quote of the Day

At the timberline where the storms strike with the most fury, the sturdiest trees are found.

[Brandy]

Oklahoma beating people by at least 50 every game.

[RCRanger03]

Yeah Yeah if we dont win the shootout im going to blowdart bradford in the neck for his troubles, and maybe Malcom Kelly too if i wasnt so afraid of him.

Anyways I seriously believe in jinxes now because as soon as I mention to someone back home that it was getting better i woke up the next morning with this ginormous lump on my right check. Its rock hard and has a couple white head poking up in one part but i dont dare touch them. The problem is that it sits right on top of my right dimple (yes i have monster dimples and they're apparently "cute" when they're not covered in pus filled lesions) back to the problem. Since its on my dimple it stretches and contracts with my mouth, and when I yawn its equivilent to me basically squeezing the hell out of it. So over today its only get redder, larger, more painful, and overall just more pissed off. To top it all off the bigger it gets the more its affected and the more its affect the more painful it is , and the more painful it is the harder it is for me sleep properly, and the harder it is for me to sleep the more i yawn and the more I yawn the bigger it gets. I feel like Fat Bastard here in a freaking vicious circle. What kills me the most is that its more comfortable for me to frown than to smile and when i try to smile only the left corner of my mouth goes up so it looks like im having a stroke. Grrrr i wanted to show the derm promising results so he wouldn't have a reason to take me off the tane, and now on the eve of the appointment it looks like i have a misplaced cheek implant.

Ranting over its just everytime i recognize my improvement something else comes along and messes it up. Alright now im going to walk a mile away to use the internet bc the internet for my dorm is broken. Here's to magically being clear tomorrow Cheers.

Quote of The Day

"We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature."

Go hug someone you can't stand, and gain two fold. You'll not only lose an enemy, but gain a friend. That one is from me. I'm gone.

[RCRanger03]

Gather round chihldren gather round for this spectacular event. The unveiling of a SECOND BANK OF PICTURES. Its been a long time coming folks, but i think you'll find that it was worth the wait. Horror, Humor, Action and Sex Appeal! Don't delay enjoy the show, but please please dont leave without making your voice heard.

Day 1 - Week 6
The Horror (Not for the weak stomach or faint of heart)

Left side (This is the tame side)
- Left Side Close Up
Right Side (You can see whats left of the big cyst on my dimple that popped when i was yawning)
-Right Side Close Up (It's blurry but thats the worst area right now)

Forehead and Central Face (No witty remark for this one)

The Humor
Silly Goose
DO NOT WANT! (Your healthy dose of what the hell is going on)

The Action
The Stare of Destiny (David Finchner and The Coen Brothers have already been signed to direct it .... jk this is just for the people who always complimented my eyes the first go around)

The Sex Appeal (Look but dont touch ladies .... unless you want to make an honest man out of me. Celibacy baby 18 years and counting, and one wonders how i keep it up with such a seductive visage)

The kind of picture i promised myself i'd never take ..... sigh Myspace mirror pic
- Bringing you a little bit closer

Hope you enjoyed our my little photo bonanza, i'll be back on tonight to update you on the derms observations. Laters

Quote of the Day
People will forget what you did. People will forget what you said, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

[ewok]

You have eyes to die for!!! Not to mention a very hot body!! Please keep updating, you're doing amazing!

[RCRanger03]

as promised an update on the derms opinion.

Basically he asked alot of question about my increased "redness" (He never said acne, or cysts, or anything else just redness). He asked me why i didn't stop when it flared up and use the steroid he perscribed incase it got too intense for me, and was surprised i knew so much about the process of Accutane, and my overall knowledge of acne (Due thanks to all of ye at the Org). In the end he decided not to graduate me to 30 mg because he wants to see how i react to another round of 20mg so i accept the verdict and tried to fill my perscription here in SA and not a single walgreens in the this metropolitan area has it. Of course they have 30mg, but not mine. So i'm going to have to wait 2 more days til they stock it. Which will make it a whole week i havent had a dose directly after 2 weeks of half doses. Thats my tale.