Another “Do Nothing” Weekend

February 21-22, 2026

This was a hard weekend. My first thing Saturday morning routine is a trip to Menards. I know, a very weird choice but they have EVERYTHING, and they’re open early, but I just wasn’t feeling like doing anything. I had a list for Meijer, Walmart, and Aldi as well.

My appetite is fluctuating and I’m feeling nauseated now. I have over the counter antinausea in addition to the prescription, and I’m taking both. It doesn’t help that I’m also in an IBS flare and can’t sleep. Stress does horrible things to a body already in the fight of their life.

If you haven’t read the “ABOUT ME” page: I’m a 57 year old female with one adult son. We moved from Metro Detroit to mid-Michigan with the goal of buying property even further north. The initial goal was to be in this apartment/townhouse for a year, but life happens and things change. We like it where we are so there isn’t a big push to move but when you want property to garden and raise animals, it is frustrating.

A big goal for the first year in our stop-over city, was to focus on my health. I worked hard during 2025 on my IBS, Fibromyalgia, and high blood sugar and was feeling much better. I hadn’t had an IBS flare in a long time and being “up north” I was more mobile and hadn’t had a long lasting fibro flare either. Then, I cut my thumb cooking steak alfredo in October of 2025. That became infected and subsequently immobile and I was put on two different antibiotics to kick that infection. Since I still hadn’t found or even looked for a primary care doc, and the urgent care that I went to didn’t seem to be taking the infection seriously, I searched https://www.healthgrades.com/ and found an amazing PCP who helped me tremendously. I saw them again in November for a physical and to establish care. During that visit they wrote orders for my mammogram, colonoscopy, and blood work.

The blood work came back quickly and my cholesterol was elevated, but not terribly, and I was shocked that my A1C (blood sugar) was within the normal range. I was also pleasantly surprised to leave that appointment without a handleful of prescriptions!

It took a while, due to the holiday season I’m presuming, to get my last mammogram films from before the move. But, once they had the films, I was able to do everything through MyChart. I grabbed the first screening appointment available at the closest location.

I tried to sleep Saturday but didn’t get much. I finally gave up and made food. I was craving potatoes that you make with the roast so all the goodness seeps into the potatoes so out came my trusty Instant Pot because I hadn’t planned ahead.

I read the 66 page insurance rider for my critical illness insurance. The insurance website has 13 different forms for the insurance and I still don’t know what I need!

Sunday was spent in much the same way. Laying around, praying I could sleep but I was able to put some things on Facebook Marketplace and sold them both within a few hours. Our place is 3 floors and about 1500 square feet if you include the basement and is downright HUGE compared to our last place in downstate. Turning a room into a recovery room is going to take space that just isn’t there. Not that downsizing/purging isn’t a good thing! 

The bedrooms are on the second floor along with a full bath. I don’t know that I’ll be able to climb the stairs for the first week and I know, from the breast reduction, that it will take a week or two before I’ll be able to use my bed again.

There is still stuff that I want to pass along to someone who will use it more than I do but until the appointment on Tuesday, I’m not sure what the timeline is, what will be scheduled for me, and what I might actually need for recovery. 

The more time passes and Tuesday comes closer the more nervous I get. As a planner, I think it’s the unknown that is causing my nervousness and insomnia despite medication.