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Five million
- By Brian · New reply yesterday at 4:06 pm
- Journal · 205 replies
- Dear members, Yesterday, Inspire reached a milestone: five million posts written by members! Each of these posts, and the 700 million words they contain, are a simple measure of how much we all do to ...
Anoxic Brain Injury
- By lma281 · New reply May 14, 2013
- Journal · 5 replies
- http://youtu.be/amH6n5qBOdY ...
Happy Mother's Day: 5.12.13
- By Faithful101 · Posted May 12, 2013
- Journal · 0 replies
- Just passing thru to wish all mothers here a wonderful Mother's Day. Keep up the great work you are doing; and may the Good LORD Bless you double. :) ♥ Manny and I are doing just fine. Never giving up ...
A new Inspire report in collaboration with Stanford Medical School
- By Brian · New reply May 5, 2013
- Journal · 84 replies
- As many of you know, Inspire has a professional collaboration with the Stanford University School of Medicine. Inspire members have written personal stories for the Stanford Scope column. I am pleased ...
Polyarteritis Nodosa (PAN)
- By BehcetsGirl · New reply May 3, 2013
- Journal · 8 replies
- I've been looking up Polyarteritis Nodosa, but i can't find a list of symptoms or how it presents itself. I'm also trying to find out how it's diagnosed. Help please ...
Heart attack following lack of oxygen to the brain
- By FightForDanny · New reply May 3, 2013
- Discussion in Brain injuries · 16 replies
- Hello, My name is Kelly and our family is fighting for the life of our brother Danny. Danny had a heart attack last Wednesday, 2/6/2013 and he was without oxygen for more than 10 minutes (maybe 20-we ...
Severe TBI
- By tina_yy · New reply April 29, 2013
- Journal · 8 replies
- My dad had the severe tbi. He is 62 yrs old and in the coma since 2/19/13. Yesterday, The dotoc told me he will be vegitive and do you want him to live this way for the rest of his life. I told him I ...
Weird numb feeling in left thigh
My Son
- By Simmonen · New reply April 25, 2013
- Discussion in Brain injuries · 26 replies
- My son took some prescription medicines that did not mix well together and has not woken up for 21 days. The doctors say the longer he is not awake the less chance he has. Does anyone know if he will ...
my husband had a SCA at the age of 43
- By dosxxgal · New reply April 25, 2013
- Journal · 3 replies
- my husband had a cardiac arrest on 1/9/13. He was given cpr right away, and shocked 4 times to bring him back. he was rushed from our town in east texas to plano heart hospital in plano texas. they had ...
When you say nothing at all: Living with an invisible illness
- By John2 · Posted April 18, 2013
- Journal · 0 replies
- From: John Novack, communications director, Inspire Dear members, I'm writing to share with you a new column on the Stanford University School of Medicine "Scope" medical blog: "When you say nothing at ...
The Inspire Q&A: Inspire talks with Deanna Attai, MD
- By John2 · New reply April 16, 2013
- Journal · 16 replies
- Dear members, We at Inspire are pleased to bring you the latest in a series of Q&A interviews with people who are making contributions to helping patients and caregivers worldwide. The people in this ...
Finding ways to help!
- By trst_n_God · Posted April 15, 2013
- Discussion in Family and friends · 0 replies
- Hello Inspire family. I have a 32 yr old sister who is a mother of 5 BEAUTIFUL children that recently suffered an anoxic brain injury. I just wanted to start this short discussion letting you all know ...
Coma? Never say never...
- By momcaregiver · Posted April 13, 2013
- Discussion in Brain injuries · 0 replies
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pla yer_detailpage&v=iHurKD0DbAk ...
sca recovery is hopeful has to be
- By rcds1234 · New reply April 6, 2013
- Discussion in Brain injuries · 8 replies
- My husband went into cardia arrest and they said it was 22 min before they started getting the circulation back he is having seizures and on a vent he hasnt woke up yet but he is still getting propofol ...
Anoxic Brain Injury
Importance of 2nd Opinions
- By Pox1 · New reply March 31, 2013
- Journal · 54 replies
- I have gone through going on 41 years of having to find out the health issues that have plagued my family. When I say my family, I mean myself and 3 daughters. My whole life has been a fight for getting ...
Left ear and Head Injury
- By Daggor · Posted March 29, 2013
- Discussion in Brain injuries · 0 replies
- I fell approx 12ft. down and 8+ feet across on a steel pipe. I landed on my left ear/head in a spiral turn. It has been just over 2 years and I am still unable to return to work. For the first year I ...
Anoxic Brain Injury Survivor
- By gr33nmind · New reply March 28, 2013
- Discussion in Brain injuries · 72 replies
- I am an anoxic/hypoxic brain injury survivor, and I had a rather lengthy episode (close to a half hour). The reason I am still able to communicate, and live on my own, I think, was because of what caused ...
Amino Acids Help Heal Brain Damage
- By TigerWiger · Posted March 27, 2013
- Discussion in Treatment · 0 replies
- http://www.naturalnews.com/027849_amino_ acids_brain_damage.html A new study recently published in the online issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests natural amino acids ...
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