CheeseBlog Is About Cheese

I am back on the cheesewagon! I am whipping the pony with a cheesestring! I can hear the squelching of my tires through the cheese-like mud!

Yes, one scant year later, (can you believe it?) th’cheeseblog will once again serve to document the absence of cheese in my life. Today I visited with a naturopath and she told me to STOP IT! Stop eating cheese (and garlic, onions and mushrooms…she did have the grace to say “I don’t understand, you’re Italian,”) and waltz my way to a much more pleasant, itch-free existence.

Oh, mostly I itch. It’s what bothers me. I am red-faced and itchy all the time. My doctor said, “huh. I don’t see anything. Try hydrocortisone.” And the hydrocortisone works, a lot like a bottle of calamine lotion or wine. It makes the itching/pain stop but it doesn’t make the thing that makes the itching/pain go away and stop itching/hurting.

So my second try is the naturopath. Of course she did food sensitivity tests. And of course she pinpointed dairy and (to a lesser degree) wheat, so the woman I work with who predicted that this would happen gets, I dunno, $5? And it is with a degree of skepticism that I embark on this drastic and unconventional path. However, as evidenced by my attendance at a party with a naked dancing man the other night, I do belong to the school of Don’t Knock It Till You’ve Tried It/Had it Waved In Your Face. If I stop itching, it will be so very worth it.

Onward, Cheesoriah!