With everything being so awful, the goal is to write uplifting copy. OK, sounds like my sort of gig. One…
Articles by John Connor
I’ve just been sentenced to at least 18 months in solitary without time off even for good behavior! Pretty harsh.
Quarantine sure feels like Christmas. The shops are stripped bare. The streets are empty. Family homes are stuffed with everyone…
Take a deep breath, and I don’t mean the kind promoted by fake memes infecting the web to “prove”…
There’s nothing like a good, old-fashioned bacteriological pincer attack to take your mind off impending death. I’m not exaggerating about…
I know the new strain of coronavirus is bad, but in the face of impending doom, I’m likely to…
Being disabled constricts what my body does — but I’m still me. For a long time, I was trapped as…
The medical profession must be sick and tired of patients diagnosing themselves via the wonders of the internet. But as…
This is the story of how I became a patient columnist. Three years ago, I was still walking. Shambling, anyway.
I’m well aware that new converts can be bores. I started an increasingly trendy vegan lifestyle back in December.
Well, this is one way of showing that I attended first-year philosophy seminars: Draw on the thoughts of Plato and…
There was a time when I didn’t have deadlines. I’d finally finished academia. No more essays ever! In theory, I…
Only 347 shopping days to go! So don’t dismiss this as a column about last Christmas (though that’s what it…
What did I write about last New Year’s? As usual, it was related to a bodily function: urinary tract…
This would be Santa’s third year as a disabled, magical creature. He seemed to be the only one but…
I rolled onto the neurology ward of the hospital that has been dealing with my disease from the beginning. The…
With “The Terminator” involved, it’s fair enough that this tale starts out as a father-son thing. My son, Jack, kept…
Fear grips me. Marijuana relaxes, eases pain, and helps my body work better. It also stirs paranoia, but only…
I didn’t file a column last week due to medical reasons. It’s a perfect excuse for a patient columnist —…
By 2017, over 50,000 people with disabilities in the U.K. had lost their accessible vehicles due to reassessments required…
As I sit down (nothing unusual there — all I do these days is sit down!) and write this, I’m…
Many of us live with a reality that we’re too embarrassed to talk about, even with medical professionals. Multiple sclerosis…
For the last few months, urinary tract infections (UTIs) have been the main subject of this column. My current disease-modifying…
I’ve been whinging for months now about struggling on through near-constant urinary tract infections. This week’s joyous occasion was…
“Events, my dear boy, events.” Because of my own political proclivities, I don’t tend to quote old Conservative prime ministers,…
Ah, the sequel. Back in April, I wrote about getting an electric wheelchair and then spending hours working out…
There’s always something. The trouble with a mélange of complex medical issues is that one good action often can lead…
Things had been going well with my electric wheelchair, but now I found myself out of control, heading toward the…
I was struck down by sclerosis in 2006 — literally. I was playing tennis and ran to return a drop…
The joys of MS are never-ending. One area that gets disrupted by this disease of the central nervous system is…