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Hello, Pretty Power!
- By martzj · New reply March 9, 2009
- 11 replies
- Reading EAT, PRAY, LOVE by Elizabeth Gilbert. On the 'Love' part of her journey now.....in Bali, Indonesian Islands. She traveled there to spend time with a Balinese medicine man (soul healer) who invited ...
Starting Over, Jan 2009. The Named Heart
- By martzj · New reply March 1, 2009
- 43 replies
- Starting Over, Jan 2009. The Named Heart. “There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” Albert Einstein Give your heart ...
Cardiac Patients: Obtain record copies now
- By martzj · New reply February 28, 2009
- 12 replies
- Stop trusting US medical staff to take charge of your record transfers between. The odds of this happening with zero errors are not in your favor. HIPPA means that all US citizens are entitled (whether ...
Our 13 year old girl passed away from a cardiac event
- By tdhssp · New reply February 18, 2009
- 12 replies
- Our little girl passed away in December 2006 from a cardiac event at the age of 13 years. Samantha had a rare chromosome disorder and a bicuspid aortic valve, however, no other similarly diagnosed persons ...
My Story...
- By Brianne · New reply February 5, 2009
- 13 replies
- I did not know I had long qt before my cardiac arrest. I actually went to the hospital for severe abdominal pain one morning and the doctors determined I had an appendicitis. They started surgery and ...
New group in Inspire: The National Body Challenge
- By Brian · New reply January 12, 2009
- 25 replies
- I am pleased to announce that today we added a new group to Inspire: The National Body Challenge. nationalbodychallenge We created this group in partnership with Discovery Health. The group focuses on ...
Why are we here?
- By Brian · New reply December 16, 2008
- 135 replies
- When we started this community, each of us faced important health issues in our lives. Some of us have family members with medical conditions. Many of us have medical conditions of our own. All of us ...
Tetrasomy 18p: "Samantha's Syndrome"
- By tdhssp · New reply December 16, 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 ...
One year ago today...
- By junimead · New reply December 7, 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 ...
Stress Test Music
- By GirlfromNapa · New reply December 2, 2008
- 6 replies
- Howdy everyone! I just wanted to let everyone know that I did well on my frist stress test s/p multiple SCA. I went 11 minutes and was able to get my heart rate up to 170 bpm (we had up'd the ICD setting ...
Still feeling good.........
- 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 ...
Irregular Heart Beats
- By JWNugent · New reply September 29, 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 ...
Cardiac arrhythmia for 3 years....
- 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 ...
Catherization Results
- By south127 · New reply September 22, 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....
- By martzj · New reply September 20, 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
- By martzj · New reply September 5, 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
- By Brian · New reply September 1, 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 ...
Welcome!
- By Brian · New reply August 31, 2008
- 19 replies
- I am pleased to present Inspire 2.0 -- the result of many months of fun and hard work. We have made numerous improvements to your community, the vast majority of which are ideas that came from you! We ...
How would you feel,if you could predict trouble.
- 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
- By martzj · New reply August 20, 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 ...
