News, Warnings, and Babble

 

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If I have to warn y'all about important stuff, then I get to babble a little.

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Don't be surprised if you see this sign at "medspas" and IV spas

 

So, we order our fluids from McKesson, and occasionally Henry Schein (more expensive for us).

 

Neither has a single bag for sale. We buy a LOT of bags, and they both love us and have put us at the top of their "you'll get some" lists, but there just aren't any.

 

A few years ago most of the IV bags were made in Puerto Rico. Then a giant hurricane hit and the power was out for a month and the factory was destroyed, and they had a great idea: "Let's move production to the mainland. How about North Carolina?"

 

Yeah, that didn't pan out swimmingly. The latest hurricane smashed the new plant, and now nobody can get IV bags. They're also prioritizing (with good reason) hospitals over "elective IV" places.

 

Don't be surprised if you try to book at an IV spa and they simply have no bags. Most are run on bootstrap budgets and buy every week. That ain't happening.

 

Luckily for us we had one of our "even a blind squirrel roots an acorn occasionally" moments a few weeks ago before all Hell broke loose, and we loaded up on bags. We should be good for a while. We MAY limit things a little if we have to send back some bags so they can be sent to a friend who owns an IV place out of state, but hopefully not. Can't let him close or go under if we can help it. Better to jump in that sinking ship with him. ;-)

 

Anyway, hopefully we're your IV place, but if not make sure you call before you show up somewhere.

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Time to make "the switch"

 

Just a quick note to remind you that you aren't seeing as much sun as you did three months ago. Even if you do, it's not the kind of DIRECT sun you get in the late Spring and Summer.

 

Time to add Vitamin D back into your supplement regimen. I put it back in my pill box about 3 weeks ago.

 

It's DIRT CHEAP. I think you get three months worth for 10 bucks at Walmart. You can always come get a 25,000iu boost from us (you'll need a second about 10 days later to establish a good baseline), but whether you do or not you should definitely get the little gelcaps. No taste, not hard to swallow, tiny, and helps you absorb calcium. As an added "warning", a giant majority of the people who had really bad Covid symptoms (like cytokine storms) were shown to be Vitamin D deficient. No point in risking it.

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Bet you didn't see this coming...

 

This is going to sound crazy (or it does to me), so we're going to ask you.

 

A friend of ours who owns one of these IV places is making "Let's buy a boat" money on his. When we asked how he's doing it he told us something we didn't know was a thing, and never saw coming: CBD IVs. True story.

 

Makes us nervous. I'm not sure about that stuff. First off, it feels like drugs. Maybe I'm just not educated on it enough, but ehhhh... Also, I'm not convinced it works. Some people swear by it though.

 

Anyway, let me know what you think about it. My biggest fears are that (1) it might just be snake oil, and (2) I don't know if I'd get an IV (a regular IV) at a place that did something that's borderline a "drug". I'd be afraid that someone would see my car and wonder if "Wheeler is doing that drug in there".

 

Maybe it's completely fine and I'm just paranoid and nerdy. After all, I'm 57 years old and I'm the guy who double-mows his yard (once in each direction) so there will be beautiful lines in the lawn. I'm all about the rules and doing things "the right way". I may not be the right person to make this decision. Maybe it works great. Maybe it's worth the mad money it costs. Or maybe it taints your image and gives you the reputation of being a hokey place that'll do anything for a buck. I just DON'T KNOW.

 

Can y'all please let me know what you think? It's your place. We just own it. Let us know what to do. If some people want it, and we still decide to not do it, I'll try to hook my friend up with another IV place in the area so they can do it. That way you'll still get it. Just come back to us for the rest of it. ;-)

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Astonishingly

 

We may be moving the Bossier City office, ALREADY.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The parking has been hell because one of our "neighbors" has their employees park in front of our office so their patients can have the spots in front of their office.

 

Our employees park all the way down at the end of the lot, like courteous people, but it just gives the other places another one of our spots to take.

 

We've tried to work with the property managers since we moved in (we were promised 4 spots in our lease and literally never have any), but they aren't really "can do" folks. We can't put up reserved signs, they won't make people move... it's a damned dirty mess.

 

So, we're looking at moving if it doesn't get fixed. Don't let it get you down if you're a Rapid Recovery Bossier person. There is some spot somewhere, and we'll get it fixed for you or we'll move.

 

Last thing

 

for the BOZILLIONTH time:

 

There are a LOT of new IV places popping up. A LOT. Just saw one around the corner from us in Shreveport, and went to lunch at Oyster Bar (my poboy spot) and there's one going in right next to them. There are more in Tyler than I can count. Quit counting at 23 places. Even Longview, little bitty East Texas Longview, has a BUNCH of places.

 

I'm not going to give you the what-for if you decide to use one of those other places, but if you are, PLEASE at least email me and let me give you a list of questions to ask them (and the answers you want) before you let someone else stick a needle in your vein. After you get the questions and the answers, you make your own decision and you don't have to tell me anything one way or the other. I just don't want you to end up somewhere you will be wasting your money, or more importantly, where you'll get hurt.

 

Stay happy, healthy, and hydrated, and we'll see you next month!