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Journals

Tetrasomy 18p: "Samantha's Syndrome"

tdhssp
  • By tdhssp · Posted November 28, 2008
  • 2 replies
  • In loving dedication to our beautiful ^j^ daughter, Samantha, a place for persons with all disabilities to gather and learn from each other: Rare chromosome issues such as Tetrasomy 18p, Autism and more ...

Still feeling good.........

DaveB72
  • By DaveB72 · Posted October 6, 2008
  • 0 replies
  • If you read my discussion in my profile you would see that I have been feeling well after almost 4 years of arrhythmia. I still feel great and have connected with a few people that have shared the same ...

One year ago today...

junimead
  • By junimead · Posted October 1, 2008
  • 14 replies
  • I was sitting at this very computer looking up some silly thing or another when I started to feel faint and get the then ever increasing chest pains. A painfully long trip to the emergency room via ambulance ...

Cardiac arrhythmia for 3 years....

DaveB72
  • By DaveB72 · Posted September 24, 2008
  • 0 replies
  • I currently have a monitor implanted in my chest, just the other day as a matter of fact. Want to help others with my situattion if possible ...

Irregular Heart Beats

JWNugent
  • By JWNugent · Posted September 22, 2008
  • 8 replies
  • They never have determined what was going on with me. I started passing out. They checked and were supposed to put me on a heart monitor for a week but didn't have the equipment available. I started timing ...

Catherization Results

south127
  • By south127 · Posted September 20, 2008
  • 10 replies
  • Good morning, I had a successful cath yesterday. It showed 30% blockage in my LAD (which seemed a lot since my second medicated stent was placed 5 months ago). My EFT was 60%. It just encourages me to ...

You Just Never Know....

martzj
  • By martzj · Posted September 9, 2008
  • 19 replies
  • The early afternoon summer sun was blazing as I sat comfortably ensconced in my 2 seater portable canvas chair won at the 2005 July village celebration commemmorating the newly replaced James River pier ...

Joy

martzj
  • By martzj · Posted September 4, 2008
  • 7 replies
  • I take profound wisdom wherever I find it. "Choose serenity over security" "Let nothing so disturb us, so fill us with sorrow or discouragement, as to make us fortit the joy. Joy is not simply a matter ...

Privacy and control

Brian
  • By Brian · Posted August 27, 2008
  • 48 replies
  • 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 ...

How would you feel,if you could predict trouble.

DrD11
  • By DrD11 · Posted August 21, 2008
  • 0 replies
  • Reading and seeing the apprehension of indivduals before competitive sports,it occured to me that there are methods which are now becoming available. Telemedicine,is what I am refering to. Check with ...

What Could Be

martzj
  • By martzj · Posted August 19, 2008
  • 12 replies
  • The exciting world I inhabited for decades is one of infinite possibilities for discoveries that will ultimately change us forever. The links below are brief entries into the culture of pure research ...

My Miracle Story

katiesoftball26
  • By katiesoftball26 · Posted August 12, 2008
  • 3 replies
  • Within the past two days, two area newspapers have done a story on a new friend and I. Its my story of Long QT success through two different writers and am told that it is very "heartwarming". (The links ...

UPDATE

huskylover
  • By huskylover · Posted August 12, 2008
  • 14 replies
  • I haven't posted in a while since I had my latest round of botox injection on July 10th. Here's the latest: -- the injection didn't work, even though I was given double the dosage. The pain that I feel ...

where can i find educational materials?

brother_deacon804va
  • By brother_deacon804va · Posted August 9, 2008
  • 4 replies
  • I am interested in receiving some educational materials to distribute to local doctor offices and people intersted regarding ovarian cancer ...

Why

heir333
  • By heir333 · Posted August 5, 2008
  • 9 replies
  • How can my three beautiful children have such a horrible disease. How can I live with the fact that I passed this deadly gene to them. I do not understand ...

upset upset upset!

cha
  • By cha · Posted July 3, 2008
  • 12 replies
  • im back from my cardiologic, im really angryyyyyyyyyy. he tell me that my problem (low heart pulses) is not with my heart, then my mother says "the vagus nerve can affect the digestion? cause i have read ...

vagus nerve and gastroparesis

cha
  • By cha · Posted July 2, 2008
  • 1 reply
  • "Why the stomach stops working Arguably the most important nerve in your body, the vagus nerve stretches from your brainstem to your colon. It helps orchestrate the complex microcircuits in your digestive ...

TOO MUCH PAIN

huskylover
  • By huskylover · Posted July 2, 2008
  • 7 replies
  • This morning I had to put on a nitroglycerin patch prescribed by my cardiologist based on how I've been feeling since late last week. I'm not in the habit of reading the side effects of any medication ...

New feature: video!

Brian
  • By Brian · Posted June 28, 2008
  • 24 replies
  • 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 ...

Support your group and raise awareness with badges

Walter
  • By Walter · Posted June 20, 2008
  • 39 replies
  • 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 ...

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