April 11, 2018 Columns by Mike Knight ‘OT’ in the House: Occupational Therapy Is Improving My MS Home Life It is noon on Wednesday, and I am sitting in a chair in our living room. My wife holds two books against my hips, one on either side, while Stefani, my occupational therapist, measures the width ā measuring me for a wheelchair. Like a lot…
March 26, 2018 News by Patricia Silva, PhD United Spinal Plans Webinar on Making Flying Better for Wheelchair Users The United Spinal AssociationĀ will hold a webinar this week to seek ideas for making air travel better for wheelchair users, including multiple sclerosis patients. One focus of the event will be the problems wheelchair users have encountered at airports. AnotherĀ will be bills in the U.S. House and Senate…
December 15, 2017 Columns by John Connor On the Road It’s 4 a.m. and, unsurprisingly, I’m laying flat on my back. Yesterday, I had a whale of a time and now I feel like a beached one. I’m not in my own bed because I’m staying in a tres jolie bed-and-breakfast in Northern France. The trouble is the bed…
November 17, 2017 Columns by Ed Tobias Airport Tips for Holiday Flyers Thanksgiving is just a few days away, so I thought it would be a good time to repeat a few of my airline travel tips and add a few new ones. Get the wait-time app Needless to say, you need to get to the airport early on busy travel…
April 7, 2017 Columns by John Connor One Day in the Working Life of John Peter Connor These might be the days of the gig economy, but I’ve been doing one every Tuesday for 27 years. My particular white van (for US readers the delivery drivers of such are a British stereotype of the new Amazon order ā or lack of it) is a comedy vehicle…
March 31, 2017 Columns by John Connor Request for Tennis Lessons Leads to Academy Teaching Many Disabled In the summer of 2012 David Bowie’s song “Heroes” became the anthem of the London Olympics despite Bowie turning down an invitation from British director Danny Boyle to be part of the opening ceremony. Gracious as ever, Bowie agreed to a meeting. Boyle had a lot to thank him for.Ā Bowie…
March 21, 2017 Columns by John Connor A Mountain to Climb with MS – in My Living Room So, I’m lying on the floor taking in the stippled ceiling we’ve never changed in the past 19 years. My son, Ā also 19, is now at university. That’s how I can be so exact on the age of my relationship with the hideously slathered ceiling. We moved in one month…
March 15, 2017 Columns by Patricia Silva, PhD Walk In, Roll Out: The Conundrum of Cardio Exercise with MS In pursuit of an answer for breathing difficulty The MRI of my cervical and thoracic spine showed no active lesions last week. That was good news. Other…
November 28, 2016 Columns by Debi Wilson When Accessibility Becomes a Question of “Why Bother?” My first encounter with “Why bother?” was in 2011. My whole family had met in Maui to celebrate my daughter Amber’s wedding. It also was my first travel since my 2010 primary progressive multiple sclerosis diagnosis, and my first trip with a wheelchair. I didn’t realize when you fly…
November 15, 2016 Columns by Ed Tobias Have Scooter, Will Travel “Round, round, get around. I get around.” I was humming that classic 1960s Beach Boys tune this morning (yes, I’m that old) as I thought about a feature story that I saw on one of the TV networks recently. The story profiled Cory Lee. Cory has spinal muscular…