Close encounters of the roommate kind 2

I just spent more than a week with a couple of roommates. One guy couldn't talk because he was intubated, so he was boring. The other guy was funny, but had to have his colostomy bag cleaned once a day. In the room. However, we made it a joke. What's the point? It's possible to make the best of a crappy situation and make it better than a boring one.