Author: Jen Rios

Bible in a Year: 4th Time Around the Sun!!!

I must tell you that I am starting my fourth time reading the Bible so it’s my ‘fourth time around the sun.’

The first time reading the Bible, I was completely blown away, and I thought I knew what to expect! The second time through the Bible, everything was in COLOR. This last time through the Bible, I felt that God is opening the door to me and it is AMAZING!!!

Something that I have realized, the word of God is truly POWERFUL!!! My first time through the Bible, I had pressure sores on both of my heels starting in April, and they did not fully heal until November.

Technically, this would be my sixth and seventh time through the Bible, because my second time through the Bible was the second and third. I listen to the Bible on YouTube while I am reading my lunch and then I listen to it again on Hallow as I am going to sleep. My short-term memory is not good anymore so I’m just trying to hear it again!

Parker told me in 2011 that when you start to read the Bible, the devil tries to get you! So, to anyone who wants to join me in this trip around the sun, let me know that you are part of this project and I will pray for you! If you have my phone number, email, or you can just message me on Facebook or Twitter:

AWFUL!!!

so, the first day of 24 years of having MS, I must tell you that it is AWFUL!!! The moment I opened my eyes, I checked my phone because I had a feeling:

It actually took me listening to three audio rosaries before I sat up in bed. This weather is terrible and my body feels awful!!!

If first impressions are anything, I don’t think I’m going to like my 24th year… #MSsucks!!! 😒😒😒…

12.28.24 “She Wasn’t Wrong.”

Last night, before we got into bed, my Mom looked at her phone to see what the date was and because it was after midnight, it was December 28. She said so.

Right after she said it, I said, kind of disinterested, just like that doctor said, “Look, you have MS. You’re going to go blind. And then you’re going to die.”

Just after I finished saying those words, I let them hang in the air for a moment before I covered my face with my hands. And I begin to cry, as my Mom said that she was sorry.

Tears these days are kind of clipped. I don’t cry for very long, but it is a heaviness that hangs in the air. I’m vaguely thinking of this song from the 90s and maybe I will write about it soon.

I’ve been telling my Mom that I never would have imagined that my life would be how it is now 24 years after I was diagnosed! I can’t believe this, but this is how it is.

Thinking about that doctor with those ugly glasses, she wasn’t wrong. My eyes have started fading so much so that I have a new sentence that I say. It started just before Christmas. That sentence is:

I can’t see that.

Rough Day

I was awakened today by a throbbing pain in my knee before I even opened my eyes this morning. I hate waking up like that But, my mind was taken off of my knee once I sat up in my bed and as the bed was moving to a sitting position from zero gravity, I voluntarily let out an aria of, “Oh’s.”

I gave up and just decided to lay back down. I knew that it was going to be a rough day… AGAIN!!!

Mornings are SUCH a rough start, actually, my days begin in the early afternoon now. Tomorrow is my 24th anniversary and I knew I would be quiet about it. It’s a strange feeling in the bit of my stomach.

Sean came over yesterday for some leftover Christmas food and I told him that my due date is on Friday. He looked at me so shocked! He just said, “My birthday was a long time ago!”

Merry Christmas 2024!!!

I did not get my star up until today, and it is without beads and ornaments but I still love this tree!!! 19 years and counting!!! My Mom even found the tree skirt!!!

Merry Christmas 2024!!!

I have to modify my phases at this point. I have to use my desk for different things AND not my nativity scene. I’ll write about it in the coming days.