The Best Laid Plans

What's that saying again, "If you want to make God laugh tell him your plans"?

3 days after I was set to begin Accutane I found myself alone, with a dead blackberry, in a hotel room far from home. Pill-less. And 2 days off my daily dose of antibiotics .

Instead of trying my new prescription on for size I was deciding between washing my face with water or a paper wrapped bar of soap with a cartoon bear on the wrapper.
Will it make me break out? Unclear.

3 days of work for me would have me:
A. More stressed than I've been in months
B. on TV doing live shots for other stations in other big cities- LA, Sacramento, and Dallas.
C. on a diet consisting mostly soda and a Pizza Hut delivery.

This isn't exactly the equation for skin-so-good it belongs in an Aveeno ad.

Work took me straight from the station to Killean Texas on assignment.
4 Hours NorthWest of Houston.

News broke there, so off I went. No time to plan my acne regiment for the next 3 days let alone how I was gonna score a clean pair of underpants.

Last day before Accutane

Journal Entry #2 : Last day before Accutane begins

Every day I run, every bite of food I take, every stress I encounter I ask myself this:

"Is this causing my acne?"

Do I have food allergies, does exercise make me break out. Questioning everything you do is enough to make yourself crazy and I'm certain, hard to live with (just ask my husband).

Over the past 4 years I've tried to remedy each one of these ideas I've come up with.

Just in case it's food allergies I dropped foods with a high glycemic index- caffeine, alcohol, carbs, sugars... I've been off soda for basically 2 years. In case you're wondering, it hasn't helped.

Add this to the list of things that haven't helped: a bowl of halloween candy near my desk at work.

I've seen Chinese healers.

The treatment there was unique to say the least.

First was a round of accupuncture where they would poke me with tiny needles to 'get the hot air out'.

Whatever that means.

When they poke those little buggers into your hands between your thumb and index finger you want to jump out the Chinese healers window.

As I go through this 1 dose a day oral treatment I'm about to start I'm sure I'll think back fondly on all my acne trials.

I'll remember the blind faith I put in a woman as she lit a dozen glass balls on fire then suction cupped them to my back to suck the toxins out. Yes, there are pictures...(hot,right?)