Back to grapefruit-juice

“Did you actually mean to buy grapefruit-juice?” Linda asks.
“Well, I’m not taking anti-cholesterol drugs any more,” I say.
The advice is you shouldn’t consume grapefruit or grapefruit-juice if you are taking anti-cholesterol drugs.
I got varying advice on this.
The drug-pusher, alias halitosis-breath, who started me on the anti-cholesterol drugs in the first place, said the concern over grapefruit was a bunch of hooey.
My wife, perusing the dreaded Internet, thought grapefruit and anti-cholesterol drugs would cause the end of the world.
“That Internet has caused more malarkey than anything,” my current Doctor says. “When I hear ‘I read it on the Internet,’ I think ‘Horror-of-horrors.’ Self-doctoring and self-diagnosis.”
“All right,” I say to my wife; “we’ll switch to orange-juice, and I’ll stop eating grapefruit. It ain’t cast in stone.”
So for years I only drank orange-juice. (Cut in half; half OJ, half water, much to the rather vocal dismay of my siblings. I prefer it that way — dilutes the sweetness. I used to cut grapefruit-juice too.)
A few months ago my doctor allowed me to stop anti-cholesterol drugs, after I argued I didn’t think they were necessary. —Not as important as getting back into shape.
So I guess we can go back to grapefruit — which I prefer.

“Linda” is my wife of 40+ years.

RE: “The drug-pusher, alias halitosis-breath......” —My previous Doctor, at a health-center (previously HMO), prescribed a slew of drugs to cure my perceived ills (his perceptions). All these drugs have been dropped, stopping various dangerous side-effects. I got back in shape at the behest of a Physical Therapist, who I respect. —The previous doctor became “the pusher-man,” and we switched health-centers; i.e. got a new doctor. “The pusher-man” had strident bad breath.

RE: “Much to the rather vocal dismay of my siblings.....” —My brothers and sisters, especially my blowhard macho brother-in-Boston, loudly accuse me of being a cheapskate, and that cutting orange-juice in half is evidence of this. Jesus drank it straight.