it's not your body that makes you ill--OH WAIT YES IT IS

[zombieboyband]

As many of you know, I share my life with a charming young man who is exceptionally talented when it comes to provoking 1) orgasms and 2) laugher, though not usually at the same time. He has his own tag on here for his quips; you should check it out. We recently had a 7th year anniversary. He is pretty cool, dudes, beyond being the best writer I've

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[raincitygirl]

It's not the end of the world. They even make gluten-free beer these days, swear to God. And if he's only allergic to wheat, not all kinds of gluten, he has a fair number of options.

[zombieboyband]

Oooh, love your icon.

But yeah, the wheat thing isn't too bad if you go the alternative products route. And all my healthy desserts were always made with oat flour, anyway. I'm actually more concerned/bummed about the milk thing, even though I've been vegan before, because we basically live off of whey protein powder right now. But we're trying out rice and hemp right now, so. It's mostly just everything in staggering combination. Like, our food choices are already weird from our vague "let's eat healthy!" ethos and my animal rights thing, and the allergies push us further along a spectrum of pickiness we're already fairly far down on.

Gluten free beer! How does that even. Amazing, world, amazing.

[citizenjess]

One of my co-workers has terrible allergies. Lightly scented lotions and dry-erase markers will leave her with debilitating migraine headaches for hours. She's possibly the only person not pleased that we've got an early spring in Iowa since, you know, now she can't go outside without being attacked by POLLEN AAAHH GET IT AWAY. Also, Sarah gets bronchitis pretty much every time the weather mildly changes, so you know, SOLIDARITY FIST BUMP

[zombieboyband]

Hahah, Ziggy also gets bronchitis each time the weather changes, which is constantly. And my already questionable hygiene routine gets trimmed down as the years go on because nail polish, lotions, perfumes, etc that are even lightly scented will make him cough and give him a headache. These days I'm down to hippie deodorant and soap and nail polish meant for babies to eat.

[if their black actually goes on black, I'm done. never doing anything else with my nails ever again.]

FISTBUMP arrrgghh.

I vaguely remember the days of living alone and passing out with my face in my dog's fur every night and slathering myself in pounds of scented glitter lotion and hosing myself down with misty girl smell products and generally being a cloud of fake flower scent allergens.

[muffinbitch]

Oh wow, that is an EXTREME list! So he can't happily stay inside OR outside? That is sucky indeed! And I thought it was bad for my ex housemate, sho was vegetarian with Celiacs disease. Oh dear. Hope you can find some good things to eat amongst all that?

[zombieboyband]

Hahah, yes. Inside bad. Outside bad.

I never realized avoiding wheat/gluten was so fucking HARD as a veghead, dude. Like boca burgers and shit ALL HAVE WHEAT IN THEM, and I never noticed/cared. I was keeping up with his diet for a few days but then, whatever, these wheat veggie hotdogs in the fridge shouldn't go to waste, I bought the nice expensive ones, after all.

[muffinbitch]

Ha, yes, we did communal food at the time, so I learned to read labels VERY carefully. It's in so many things! So many sauces and things you wouldn't even think of! Heh, at least you can eat the ones he can't. :)