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Welcome from TeamInspire!

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  • By TeamInspire · Posted March 13, 2008
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  • 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

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  • 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!

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  • 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 ...

New feature - profile completeness gauge

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  • By Tasha · Posted June 12, 2008
  • Journal · 9 recommendations
  • Greetings from TeamInspire! I'm your friendly neighborhood designer, here to tell you about some new features. You might notice that today we revamped your member homepage - https://www.inspire.com/member-home.pl ...

Finally gave in to hospice....

tweetymarie
  • By tweetymarie · Posted September 9, 2008
  • Journal · 8 recommendations
  • I had a horrible weekend. A virus started it, I think. Vomiting, dry heaving, diarrhea, alot of bile. After 2 days I had enough. Couldn't eat, drink, take pain meds or anything. Ended up going to the ...

Share your story via video!

TeamInspire
  • 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 ...

The journey begins

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  • By Rock44 · Posted June 13, 2008
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Dancing on the abyss

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  • By yesshecan · Posted November 2, 2009
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  • 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 ...

Moms, you rock!

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  • By TeamInspire · Posted May 1, 2009
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  • 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 ...

dave,Kim& The beginning of our journey till now 2 yrs later ,still fighting

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  • By Kim_R · Posted March 15, 2009
  • Journal · 5 recommendations
  • What I am doing here is trying to document our families journey with cancer that began right before halloween 2007.My Husband(Dave)was diagnosed with throat cancer at the age of 49.He was stage 4 when ...

Learning to Cope with Cancer

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  • By mamafrog33 · Posted April 9, 2008
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  • As a cancer patient or a caregiver, you will learn so much about a devastating disease that rarely leaves survivors. Everyone is hoping and praying for a cure to be found quickly, but more research is ...

Patience

Ovacom06
  • By Ovacom06 · Posted October 26, 2009
  • Journal · 4 recommendations
  • While going through my cancer battle I came to the realization that there are three types of people who battle cancer: 1. The person who throws up his or her hands and gives up. 2. The person who digs ...

Guestbooks are now live!

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  • 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 ...

Update from the Back Deck

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  • By Beachbabe · Posted January 17, 2009
  • Journal · 4 recommendations
  • Hi All~ This may be long, but there's a few things I want to share and perhaps get input on from all of you in the trenches with me! Went for bone scan and evil IV of Zometa yesterday. I have mets everywhere ...

Magazine Article about Metsters

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  • By Beachbabe · Posted October 10, 2009
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  • Hello My Friends~ Several weeks ago I asked for your input for an article I was writing to try to get the public thinking about how October relates to us Hot Cancer Babes in the late stage caboose. Please ...

- A Life Chaning Story - The Wooden Bowl

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  • By Shelter · Posted April 9, 2009
  • Journal · 3 recommendations
  • The Wooden Bowl I guarantee you will remember the tale of the Wooden Bowl tomorrow, a week from now, a month from now, a year from now. A frail old man went to live with his son, daughter-in-law, and ...

It is growing so fast and this scares me.

tweetymarie
  • By tweetymarie · Posted September 7, 2008
  • Journal · 3 recommendations
  • I am still here. haven't felt good though. My brother took me to Ft Worth to c some family n that probably didn't help but I needed to go c them. I am very sore.The pain is worse n it is growing so fast ...

The New Face of Cancer

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  • By DragonflyDream · Posted August 5, 2008
  • Journal · 3 recommendations
  • Okay, since the other day when I was so bummed and upset about a comment made by someone who has no clue what it is to FIGHT everyday for one's life I decided that since I "looked so good" that I should ...

Don't Quit

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  • By omega7 · Posted July 13, 2008
  • Journal · 3 recommendations
  • When things go wrong as they sometimes will, When the road you're traveling seems all uphill, When the funds are low and the debts are high, And you want to smile, but you have to sigh, When care is pressing ...

AS I SEE IT....

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  • By justjim · Posted April 22, 2008
  • Journal · 3 recommendations
  • We are all here because we or someone close to us has cancer of some form and we are looking for information or insperation and this is good so here is a little of both. All cancer is differant as is ...

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