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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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Welcome from TeamInspire!
- By TeamInspire · Posted March 13, 2008
- Journal · 25 recommendations
- Hello, old friends and new. Today is a big day for us! We have made numerous improvements to your community, most that were suggestions from you. As you can see the site is very different then before ...
Guestbooks - An exciting addition to Inspire
- By TeamInspire · Posted May 20, 2009
- Journal · 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 ...
Follow Inspire on Twitter and Facebook!
- By TeamInspire · Posted June 10, 2009
- Journal · 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 ...
Share your story via video!
- By TeamInspire · Posted June 15, 2009
- Journal · 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 ...
On my knees
- By hopeful3 · Posted April 26, 2008
- Journal · 6 recommendations
- I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go . Abraham Lincoln ...
Moms, you rock!
- By TeamInspire · Posted May 1, 2009
- Journal · 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 ...
So sick of pain today
- By deebelle · Posted April 2, 2009
- Journal · 5 recommendations
- So tired of this pain. I am so miserable today..so sad and angry, all at the same time. It hurts so bad. My pinched nerve in my back really hurting right leg, and groin and hip. Barely tolerable today ...
Guestbooks are now live!
- By TeamInspire · Posted May 26, 2009
- Journal · 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 ...
"What can I do for you?"
- By Luke747 · Posted March 20, 2009
- Journal · 4 recommendations
- After my mastectomy, everyone asked the above question. I decided that to say "nothing" was not only a wrong answer but also deprived people of being blessed by helping to take care of me. So I decided ...
Just give me strength
- By hopeful3 · Posted April 28, 2008
- Journal · 4 recommendations
- I do not ask to walk a smooth path nor bear an easy load. I pray for strength and fortitude to climb the rock-strewn road. Give me such courage and I can scale the hardest peaks alone, and transform each ...
Vulnerability
- By Luke747 · Posted March 20, 2009
- Journal · 3 recommendations
- Living with a chronic illness has forced me to become vulnerable. I was a very capable woman, able to keep many balls in the air at the same time - go ahead and throw another one at me. Fibromyalgia eliminated ...
NUCCA
- By Luke747 · Posted March 20, 2009
- Journal · 3 recommendations
- This is the National Upper Cervical Chiropractic Association. It has been around for a few decades. The treatment isn't new. But the doctors that do it are few. I encourage you to check it out on the ...
Good intentions OR intentional sabotage?
- By junegroomsmom · Posted March 15, 2009
- Journal · 3 recommendations
- This post is not about me persay but I must give an example to make my point. I absolutely LOVE the Weight Watchers program. And I recommend it openly and with GREAT enthusiam BECAUSE there IS realism ...
Started my journey today!
- By poetic_faerie87 · Posted July 27, 2009
- Journal · 2 recommendations
- So, my mom and I went to weight watchers! I was so nervous about being weighed in, but when I saw how much I weighed I was completely and utterly surprised! When I joined weight watchers back in February ...
MY BIG FAT SCARY BEFORE PICTURE !!!! 250 plus.
- By junegroomsmom · Posted April 9, 2009
- Journal · 2 recommendations
- photo_2 This a pic is of hubby and I at youngest son's beach wedding in May 2008. I weighed at least 250 lbs. Probably more but I had an aversion to the scale obviously! :< I HARDLY recognize myself ...
"At least you didn't lose all your hair"
- By Luke747 · Posted March 20, 2009
- Journal · 2 recommendations
- People mean well. They really do! When chemotherapy made me look like a boy, it was just a wee bit troubling. When my husband first set his eyes on me after the inevitable haircut, the love in them set ...
Life...
- By hopeful3 · Posted April 24, 2008
- Journal · 2 recommendations
- Life is either a daring adventure or nothing, To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable. -Helen Keller ...
Morning Prayer
- By hopeful3 · Posted April 21, 2008
- Journal · 2 recommendations
- Christian Glitter by www.christianglitter.com ...
alone...
- By kblodgett · Posted September 27, 2009
- Journal · 1 recommendation
- why do I feel so alone? i have family and friends a son. Yet everyday I am alone. no one can feel my pain. No one understands nerve pain around me. When I say my head hurts they think its like a headache ...
Making changes
- By carr33 · Posted August 8, 2009
- Journal · 1 recommendation
- I have made a decision. Even though I am having a hard time I am going to get serious with my working out. Starting tomorrow I will be doing the couch to 5k program and every other day I will be doing ...
