You are right Terry, we run into some interesting people, get some advice that is neither useful or informative and yes, there are boneheads all around.  It feels like the Twilight Zone sometimes.  Glad you are still with us, still blogging and still enjoying your post-stroke life.

Life would be terrifying if they accepted that things like stroke, heart attacks, cancer,  and death are random unpredictable and uncontrollable events ultimately no matter what risks we minimize or trivialize.

Terry, are you saying that most "smart" people are boneheads! Please that

you are enjoying life. I am going on a cruise next Thursday, see who I meet.

This is my first, looking forward to it.

Yvonne

I liked the cruise. Got to meet allot of interesting people. Their is a forum on cruise critic and they have roll calls, I got to communicate with about 50 or so people. Once on the ship we all gathered at sail away. So throughout the ship during the week got to get to know a few, which was nice. And no I do not think all "smart" people are boneheads. The neurologist I was talking about, after he found out he treated me more like one of his patients and  avoided me after that. And I also agree we can reduce our risk factors to decrease chronic illness. In a sense we are born with some of our "risk" factor's such as just are genetics are more prone to certain illnesses then other's.