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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
my NIH experience
- By dizzybee · Posted October 2, 2009
- Journal · 3 recommendations
- THIS IS MY EXPERIENCE -- I HAVE TRIED TO LEAVE THE DOCTORS' INVOLVED NAMES OUT SO AS NOT TO CAUSE ISSUES -- AGAIN, THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED TO ME. Well, where to start--nurse took my vitals and some allergy ...
Anoxic Brain Injury/ABI from Sudden Cardiac Arrest/SCA
- By NWWriter · Posted March 19, 2008
- Discussion in Brain injuries · 3 recommendations
- I'm tossing this topic in for discussion because I'm finding that the stigma of "brain injury" (or the more sweepingly-frightening term "brain DAMAGE") often stops people from admitting that they have ...
Obituary...
- By Axykatt · Posted December 11, 2008
- Journal · 2 recommendations
- Words cannot create for you a proper effigy Describe your manner, the way you loved, or your personality. Your intellect was vast but your manner never vain Though times were sometimes tough never once ...
Support for Survivors
- By Aaron-Pennsylvania · Posted October 25, 2009
- Discussion in Living with a brain or nervous system disease · 1 recommendation
- This site is such a great resource for survivors of ABI and their family members. In reality, the family members are survivors too. Sometimes the family needs help and insight from others who have been ...
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 ...
We Need CPM Awareness - 60 Year's Hidden, Help Us...
- By WhataBreeze · Posted June 7, 2009
- Journal · 1 recommendation
- Central Pontine Myelinolysis: If blessed to live through the initial issues, please don't give up on us. For me personally, starting February 2002 my life continues to go through daily series of changes ...
Brain Injury Recovery / MCS / PVS / Anoxic
- By WMD · Posted January 18, 2009
- Discussion in Brain injuries · 1 recommendation
- My name is Wendy and I am the mother of a 13yr old boy who sustained a Severe Anoxic Brain Injury when playing in his friend's backyard in May 2008. There is so little information available about anoxic ...
Anoxic brain injury; what's normal?
- By Axykatt · Posted November 7, 2008
- Journal · 1 recommendation
- After a SCA my 25 y/o husband is now being hospitalized with ABI. The doctors and hospital staff are very reluctant to tell us what is a sign of recovery, and what is simply reflexes or unconscious movement ...
What I don't know may be killing my husband.
- By Axykatt · Posted November 5, 2008
- Journal · 1 recommendation
- On Wednesday, October 15th, 2008, my husband, Victor, suffered from a ventricular fibrillation which prevented his heart from beating efficiently causing him to collapse. He had been diagnosed with cardiomyopathy ...
