I found this on the SpiroChicks website which has become one of my favorites! I absolutely love this blog! This is just SO perfectly true! Candice from SpiroChicks - I hope you don't mind me sharing this here! Her site is: http://www.spirochicks.com/2011/03/perfectly-abnormal-condo.html

15 Reasons Why Two Late Stage Lyme Patients Make Fabulously Strange Roommates

1. Most average roommates have designated cupboards for alcohol, or for easy-to-prepare foods like hamburger helper or macaroni and cheese. Instead, you and your roommate each have entire shelves sectioned off for pills, potions, and medication. Your easy to prepare “go-to food” cabinet consists of cans of organic white beans and jars of raw sesame seed butter.

2. Lyme patients often have to set alarms in order to wake up on time, remember to take pills, or to assure they eat enough throughout the day. When two patients live together though, you can double as both roommates and walking, talking alarm clocks. You typically know when it’s getting to be late and your roommate hasn’t taken her adrenal medication yet, and she also knows that it’s time to eat again when she starts to smell your brussel sprouts steaming from two rooms away.

3. With all of the cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli and brussel sprouts that you both typically steam, the average person might walk into your house and think it smells like the dog has some pretty gnarly gas. But when your roommate comes home from the grocery store and gets a whiff of a cruciferous veggie steaming, she drops everything and starts cooking too, because beef and cabbage sounds like its going to hit the spot.

4. You and your roommate both know “the face”. You know, that face that you get when your brain starts to feel like it’s full of hot wax and cotton balls. When you have company over and one of you starts to glaze over and zone out, the other picks up on it pronto and takes over the conversation. Typically, “the face” goes unnoticed by guests and “normal” folks. They just think you’re just quite an intent listener.

5. Your roommate doesn’t think it’s weird that you constantly feel motivated to go lay flat on the front lawn. In fact, she encourages it, and will lay out there with you despite the status of the weather reports. There’s even a name for it: Earthing. Your neighbors probably half expect you both to start hugging trees, but it’s all good.

6. You both sort of instinctively know what might be helpful to one another. When your roommate throws out her back, you know how long her hot rice pack takes to heat in the microwave. When you're packing to head out to the doctor, you know what to throw in your snack bag for her in case she gets hungry too. When she's got somewhere to be and she's running short on time, you know how to cook the lunch she was hoping to pack. Whereas asking just anyone to do such things might be a little overwhelming if they aren't fluent in "lyme patient".

7. Your roommate knows that when she catches you lathering up your arms and legs with the same coconut oil you just cooked your veggies in, you’re not planning to roast yourself too. To the both of you, cooking oil doubles as a perfectly acceptable organic body lotion.

8. When you open up the gnarly bottle of pills that makes your kitchen smell like stinky feet, your roommate doesn’t cringe and check to see if something curled up and died in your garbage disposal. Instead, she hurries to the cupboard because the pungent smell reminds her that it’s time to take her afternoon dose of pills too.

9. When you send out a friend or a family member to pick up some groceries for you at Whole Foods, you typically have to set aside 15 minutes to explain things like what swiss chard looks like, how to pronounce “quinoa”, and which aisle you might find gluten free oats. But when you hand your roommate your grocery list, she glances at it, then merely asks, “Rainbow chard or red? I like rainbow, myself.”

10. Instead of rolling her eyes every time some off-the-wall thing makes you sick, your roommate can often warn you before it even happens. If you’re on a walk and she breathes a whiff of gasoline before you do, she responds with a “quick, cover your nose!”. If she’d been two seconds later, she’d probably would have had to peel you off of the sidewalk. But if that had indeed happened, she wouldn’t have griped about that either.

11. While most of the population believes that a scoop of vanilla ice cream is the ingredient that completes a fruit smoothie, you and your roommate think that a beverage isn’t perfectly blended until you’ve added an avocado. Most might scoff at adding anything green to their milkshake (unless it were mint chip ice cream), but you both don’t consider it to be complete if you haven’t.

12. While alternative healing therapies and the notion of “detox” seem outlandish to others, you both fully embrace them. At this rate, between her unconventional use of organic coffee and your use of a neti pot, you two are bound to make Roto Rooter jealous.

13. When the guy who's installing your new furnace comes in to test it out, he ends up sticking around for a while and chatting with you both, because he thinks you're intriguing. He then proceeds to ask what the lime green awareness bracelets that are sitting on your dining room table are for, and when you tell him, he asks if he can buy a few. He informs you that you both have a "righteous positive energy".

14. You and your roommate are oddly able to laugh during occurrences that most of the general public would find quite unnerving. When your heart starts going into strings of irregular heartbeats and your blood pressure cuff starts flashing all sorts of different abnormal codes and symbols, she doesn't get frustrated or anxious as she drives you to the doctor. Instead, you find things to laugh about on the way there, and you both even manage a giggle when you're forced to inch out of the car as though you're 112 years old.

15. When you wake up and tell you're having a bad morning, you roommate can actually fathom what that might mean. She doesn't think that "bad" might equate to feeling tired, achey, or sick to your stomach. She knows what this kind of sick feels like, because she understands what it's like to have every organ in your body affected by an infectious disease. And when she nods and tells you that she's sorry, she really, truly means it.

My life is challenging, unique, odd, timultuous, fascinating, and completely out of the ordinary. Yet I've come to discover that though I don't have a choice in what my life may look like right now, I can choose whether or not I'm going to accept it, and it's up to me to decide if I'm going to love it or hate it. Despite the hardship and lack of normalcy, I've chosen to love it. Living with another patient who has made the same commitment makes that choice a whole lot easier. Ashley and I live in a perfectly abnormal condo, and I've loved (almost) every minute of it.

Is your household perfectly abnormal too? Well then, rock on.