Category: health

  • Sophisticated Surfer

    In January of this year I started taking Isotretinoin (commonly known as Accutane).  I knew from the start that I would have dry skin and that has certainly been the case.  Since my dosage was recently increased from 40mg per day to 60mg dryness has increased again with some side effects that I wasn’t expecting.…

  • 2011 Purdue 5K Challenge

    Today was the Purdue 5K Challenge benefiting the Purdue Cancer Center. I’ll post more pictures and information later, however I was able to do better this year than last with a time of 22:36 placing 16th among my age bracket and 58th among all men.  Until the final results list is released later today I…

  • Isotretinoin – Week 4

    This post is a bit late and I see that I skipped last week’s post as well.  However, better late than never. My treatment with Isotretinoin is progressing.  In the last few weeks I’ve gotten old-people hands as I’ve affectionately referred to them.  Effectively this means that my hands are quite dry and get cut pretty…

  • Running is now work

    Today was the first time in two weeks that I have actually ran at all.  I ran one mile tonight on the treadmill that my parents brought down last weekend (thanks Mom & Dad!) While I only ran one mile and (including a slow one minute warmup) it took about nine minutes to run, I couldn’t…

  • Winter Running

    Today was the second five-mile run of the week.  It was also the second day in a row of running around the campus instead of on a county road.  My runs normally focus on those roads as I typically would just come home from work, take Sparky out, then get dressed and go for a…