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What - Inspire is a place where you can connect with people who share your health concerns and find information and advice in groups sponsored by organizations you know and trust.
Why - As a member you can use Inspire to let friends and family know how you're doing, contact others who share your health concerns, receive personalized updates and information about participating in surveys and clinical trials, and more.
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Support your group and raise awareness with badges
- By Walter · Posted June 20, 2008
- 33 recommendations
- Hi everyone. We added a new feature today that you can use to support your groups and the organizations that sponsor them, and get the word out about the causes that are important to you. If you visit ...
Guestbooks - An exciting addition to Inspire
- By TeamInspire · Posted May 20, 2009
- 23 recommendations
- Hello everyone, We're writing to let you know about a great new feature we'll be adding to Inspire in the very near future: guestbooks. This is a feature that many of you have requested, and we're very ...
New feature: video!
- By Brian · Posted June 28, 2008
- 15 recommendations
- I am pleased to announce that we have updated Inspire to support video. You can now share a video of yourself, videos that you find inspirational or informative, and more. I've included one of myself ...
Follow Inspire on Twitter and Facebook!
- By TeamInspire · Posted June 10, 2009
- 12 recommendations
- We're happy to announce that you can now stay in touch with what's happening at Inspire by following us on both Twitter and Facebook. While Inspire communities are still the best places to connect with ...
Inspire members featured
- By Brian · Posted October 28, 2009
- 10 recommendations
- Today Massachusetts General Hospital's Proto Magazine published a wonderful profile of nine Inspire members. Each of these stories underscores what we all know to be true -- that Inspire is a special ...
Uh Oh I am really Dying Soon
- By JudyV · Posted September 28, 2009
- 8 recommendations
- Every now and then it hits. It hit tonight, big time. I wanted to call someone, but who do you call to say something like that? Who would understand how this realization can just suddenly flood over me ...
" I WISH YOU ENOUGH....."
- By BJsHere · Posted August 3, 2009
- 7 recommendations
- With all the pressures we are under from a health standpoint, financially and just plain coping, I thought I would send this out to you... This was sent to me sometime ago by a friend.... I now send it ...
Share your story via video!
- By TeamInspire · Posted June 15, 2009
- 7 recommendations
- Sometimes the most powerful message each of us can share is our personal story -- our own experience. With upcoming healthcare legislation pending, one way we can be advocates is to share these stories ...
Privacy and control
- By Brian · Posted August 27, 2008
- 7 recommendations
- At Inspire, we think about privacy all the time. Virtually every web site has a privacy policy; you can read ours here: http://www.inspire.com/about/privacy/. But simply following the letter of a privacy ...
Lost your health insurance? Got Breast Cancer? Read this!
- By Pam-Pam · Posted November 8, 2009
- 6 recommendations
- This is my story: I had lost my insurance when our business collapsed. We had spent all our savings trying to keep the business afloat. We had assets, our home was paid for, etc, so we didn't qualify ...
Dancing on the abyss
- By yesshecan · Posted November 2, 2009
- 6 recommendations
- Silent home. Cat sleeps. Dog sleeps. Cancer sleeps. PET scan came back with NED. Yet I am aware, so keenly aware that cancer can sleep and hide and edge forward when it choses. I dance on the abyss. Stare ...
I Got Busted Removed From Site. And It's Okay!
- By GRANDmother19 · Posted October 15, 2009
- 6 recommendations
- I Got Busted By The Powers That Be, was removed entirely from the site because, and I quote, "it was degenerating into an unproductive expletive fest where members were telling others to "f**k off" and ...
A Very Open Letter from an Oncologist
- By gpawelski · Posted August 8, 2009
- 6 recommendations
- A Medical Director at California Cancer Care, an oncology practice in Northern California wrote a candid letter to the Health Beat blog by Maggie Mahar. He is a member of The Century Foundation's Working ...
Don't try to drive the Electric Cart where it was Never Meant To Go!
- By JudyV · Posted May 15, 2009
- 5 recommendations
- Ohmigosh I really did it! My daughter had taken me to WalMart, and I used their wonderful electric cart and got to do my favorite thing: shopping I am very worried that I will be banned from all WalMarts ...
Moms, you rock!
- By TeamInspire · Posted May 1, 2009
- 5 recommendations
- Looking for a unique and extraordinary way to say "thank you" to your mom? In honor of Mother's Day, good friend of Inspire Dr. Gwenn (of http://www.PediatricsNow.com and http://www.DrGwennIsIn.com) will ...
Neurontin for pain management/neuropathy
- By gpawelski · Posted November 12, 2009
- 4 recommendations
- I've written before that anecdotally, drugs like Neurontin are used off-label. Most drugs are prescribed off-label. One must be cautious that off-label remedies are fully discussed with patients and must ...
Guestbooks are now live!
- By TeamInspire · Posted May 26, 2009
- 4 recommendations
- Hello everyone, Last week we mentioned that we'd be adding guestbooks to Inspire in the near future, and they are now live! We're very excited about this feature and hope you enjoy it. To check out your ...
"While Judy & I were Married ..."
- By JudyV · Posted May 24, 2009
- 4 recommendations
- My husband of 38 years said the most telling thing the other day when he and I were chatting with our hospice Chaplain. I complained that Joe and I never did anything together any more. The Chaplain asked ...
Still Alive and Kicking
- By JudyV · Posted May 12, 2009
- 4 recommendations
- Some of my phone calls and emails are sweet and remind me of when I was pregnant and the calls I received after I went past the baby-due-date. People, understandably, want to know where I am in this battle ...
The end of another wonderful day on earth
- By JudyV · Posted May 9, 2009
- 4 recommendations
- May 9, 2009: my first journal ever. Today, I organized a gathering of 25 family members for a picnic up above Estes Park, Colorado, at the Meeker Park campground. What an awesome day it was; I was surrounded ...
