Elaine: My roommate has Lyme disease.

I once lived with someone (over a dozen years ago) whose aunt was a hypochondriac.

Plus, Yolanda says stuff that really undermine her credibility. Like her swollen brain comment and her Lyme origin story. Then there’s the whole feel that she uses her disease to manipulate people. She is not a trustworthy narrator.

She also insists that she broke her back giving birth due to a potassium allergy (literally impossible for a human to be allergic to potassium). She’s not exactly reliable.

As a med student, I’ve already seen enough patients coming in requesting to get checked for Lyme for all their vague symptoms. Welcome to the new gluten allergy.

Does anyone ever get the Epstein-Barr or Chronic Fatigue Syndromes any more? What about the full environmental allergies that used to be a thing?

Poor Gomez Adams, Mikey from Goonies/Sam Gamgee, and Andy from The Facts of Life. They must all be so sad.

Anna wasn't just her birth name, it's what she preferred to be called. I worked with her in the early 2000s and she was a lovely, beautiful person who brought so much light with her to work every day. I'm so sad to hear she's passed so young, but glad for her that her years of pain are over (she's had a lot of serious…

I used to watch reruns of The Patty Duke Show when I was a kid and I loved her.

Yolanda Hadid is her name, not Yolanda Foster.

You don’t need to be an M.D. to see that Yolanda almost certainly does not have lyme. If I had to hazard a guess, I’d say it’s depression (which can absolutely manifest as physical symptoms) being exacerbated by menopause. It also seems like she’s being taken advantage of by a lot of people selling snake oil cures.

Chronic lyme is the best disease to fake if you’re both attention-seeking and incredibly lazy.

i’m not an MD, and the only person i’ve ever known with chronic lyme was also a pretty serious drug addict so IDK what’s real or not.

How do his roommates explain this when they bring friends over? “Oh, that’s just Peter, he lives in the sideboard.”

There’s a filthy rich neighbor in our hood that has a Teepee in his front yard, he smokes weed inside of it. True story...

But did you hear about the woman who lived in a shoe?

“ if a man could fuck a woman in a cardboard box, he wouldn’t buy a house.”
-Dave Chappelle

That would be for Marathon Man, it wasn’t running up and down stairs, it was running marathons, and the famous British actress would be Sir Laurence Olivier.

If he were in character, he wouldn’t have even known the name John Cazale.