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Articles by John Connor
Last Thursday was the hottest day ever recorded in U.K. history at 101.6 degrees F. Heat sensitivity is enough to…
It’s 1 p.m. in the U.K., and it’s 90 degrees Fahrenheit. I can hardly move due to the heat. My left…
OK, this was my first test. Accomplish this and Day One should be a breeze. The trick is not to…
It was such a jam-packed week that the flavor was definitely multi-fruit! It included a meet-cute with a barber…
It’s taken over a year to conceive, organize, and plan, but yesterday, I was able to leave the house on…
Even in my able-bodied days, I was hardly Channing Tatum — who is? Model, actor, dancer, singer, and he…
Stranded. Not on a desert island but in an empty hospital ward. Earlier, it had been filled with fellow MSers…
“Thank you for sharing” is a clichéd phrase I never expected to use, or indeed have used toward me! However,…
I looked at the road, then west to the horizon. It was the Trans-Canada Highway. I was standing just…
Last Monday night, I was strangely in the audience at London’s Comedy Store. At a rough calculation, I have…
It was a sunny Lower East Side of Manhattan Sunday morning. The bulbous New York Times was shoved, just…
Exactly one year ago on this day of writing, I was down and out. This year, I’m not exactly…
Second in a series. Read part one. I’m actually driving! I really can’t remember the last time I had…
First in a two-part series. Do I give in or fight? I’d had all the tests, and in the summer…
Last weekend a mother brought 4,000£ ($5,200 U.S.) of medicinal cannabis from Holland into the U.K. for…
In February of last year, I stopped. Walking more than a few steps was suddenly impossible. I’d fought, taken…
My nephew James has taken an interest in this column since having a starring role in it a…
You think getting a chronic illness is as bad as it’s going to get, but then you quickly realize…
Julian, the doorman at the London Comedy Store, is giving me his biweekly telling off about drinking.
In the earlier days of my MS, I could still walk a bit. It was not enough to risk…
I can’t quite remember when I got hooked on the writings of Jack London, but I don’t think I’ve…
Relapses can be sneaky. They can scythe you down. I’ve been dealing with multiple sclerosis (MS) since 2006 and…
Take a minute … and relax. It’s been a fraught few weeks of numerous solo hospital visits, as…
OK, I’ve used a typical tabloid headline to draw you into a column about dealing with lymphedema. Well,…
If MS was just about MS, it wouldn’t be easy, but it would be a lot easier. It’s different for…
This is going to be a hard column to write, and quite possibly it breaks all the rules of…
One of the hardest things I’ve had to accept with MS is the necessity of asking for help. Pride…
Well, it feels like it, at least. I just had the whole of the Christmas-New Year’s period off because…
New year, new beginnings — not a chance. Theresa May still has Brexit as her waking and sleeping nightmare,…