Hammate Hypochondriac and the Case of her Ancestry Hello shitlords and shitladies! Welcome to another edition of life with a fat roommate.  Today's tale involves first saying that I have determined hammate is a hypochondriac, as most obeasts are known to be. Since I've known her she has suspected herself of having one disease or another. You all may remember the time when she insisted she had a cyst growing inside her abdomen and that was why she was so fat. I guess any critical thinking skills ended there because the cyst theory did not in any way explain the fat on her face, neck, arms, ass or legs. Just the abdomen. I'm pretty positive she has mentioned this cyst theory to her doctor a time or two and I'm guessing he thinks she's crazy at this point.  About the time I had that ruptured brain aneurysm which was in Mar 2011 she claims to have had a stroke. She was working that weekend and did not go to the hospital or go home. She just worked and had a stroke. Subsequent brain imaging apparently doesn't show any damage however there is gliosis of the pons. I have no idea what that means but her doctor doesn't seem too concerned. At any rate, she felt more needed to be done and got the name of my endovascular surgeon to get his opinion. And, as I expected there was nothing. A few weeks ago she had a new doctor and told him about her stroke and problems. He sent her, yet again, for another MRI which showed guess what. No brain damage!  Where am I going with all of this?  She and her family are really big into genealogy stuff and she got the archive of all the information her brother has already gathered. I'm laying in my room and every so often she tells me "so, my 3rd cousin twice removed was dx with <insert some random disease here>. Me: oh, ok. Just now she said "well this is good to know! So and so on my daddy's side died of tuberculosis! that's good to know".   In the next few weeks I'm expecting her to start becoming concerned that she has inherited TB. Nevermind that we have a vaccine for that. Never mind that it's a communicable disease, not inheritable. I doubt she would know the difference and at this point I'm too afraid to ask. Edit: forgot to say that she also claimed about a month ago that she was having a stroke for about 5 days. You can't make this shit up!