Journals

Trying to win the war on pain

tammysci
  • By tammysci · Posted November 19, 2008
  • 1 reply
  • Over the past 15 years I have struggled with pain and it can be very frustrating. When I wake up, the first 15 minutes of my day are the worst. I even bought a new mattress this year to try to help my ...

Feeling more lost then ever! with medical and education

CanadaNuse
  • By CanadaNuse · Posted November 17, 2008
  • 0 replies
  • A lot has been happening on the home front. Ash's medical team including mental health are changing her dosage of medications, times given etc. In hopes that the current combination of medications will ...

What do I miss about life before my injury?

tammysci
  • By tammysci · Posted November 13, 2008
  • 9 replies
  • In the last couple of months people have asked me what I miss about my life before my injury. The answer is everything! How could I not miss things, it changed everything about how I thought my future ...

Veteran's Day - A day to remember and honor our heroes!

tammysci
  • By tammysci · Posted November 11, 2008
  • 5 replies
  • Veteran's Day was not a day that meant much to me personally until I started meeting veterans coming back from Iraq. I was surprised to find out that the amount deaths because of the war in Iraq was 4193 ...

Traveling Tips Part 1: Renting a car if you have a disability

tammysci
  • By tammysci · Posted November 7, 2008
  • 5 replies
  • Traveling Tips Part 1: Renting a car In the past 15 years since I have been using a wheelchair, traveling has never been easy, but I don’t let it stop me. Just a few weeks ago I had to go to Atlanta ...

What's the difference between “Barrier Free” and "ADA" apartments?

tammysci
  • By tammysci · Posted November 3, 2008
  • 0 replies
  • When you use a wheelchair it can be hard to find accessible apartments and housing. Over the last 10 years, I have always been someone that rented an apartment and at one time I even had a small house ...

The Candidates on Stem Cell Research

tammysci
  • By tammysci · Posted October 22, 2008
  • 6 replies
  • I know that stem cell research is a very controversial subject among people with disabilities, but I was forwarded this link on the candidate’s views on Stem Cell Research. If you are not informed on ...

Time for People with Disabilities to vote- Your Voice and Vote Counts!

tammysci
  • By tammysci · Posted October 20, 2008
  • 13 replies
  • According to a website on the census of how many people have disabilities of some sort in the United States; are about 58 million people. With that amount of people affected by disabilities in the United ...

My Hero, My Inspiration, My Friend…

tammysci
  • By tammysci · Posted October 15, 2008
  • 6 replies
  • In life, we all have people that inspire us, and sometimes they don’t always realize how much. I hear from a lot of people that say I inspire them, and while that is a compliment, I feel it has a lot ...

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 ...

Its been a while since I last posted!

CanadaNuse
  • By CanadaNuse · Posted August 21, 2008
  • 2 replies
  • There has been alot going on, since our last post, and honestly I don't know where to start. We had over TEN doctor visits and still not closer to anything. But we keep on getting more clinical DX for ...

Support your group and raise awareness with badges

Walter
  • By Walter · Posted June 20, 2008
  • 30 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 ...

Improvements to the message system are complete

Walter
  • By Walter · Posted June 10, 2008
  • 14 replies
  • Hello everyone. Just a quick note to let you know that the improvements to the message system that I wrote about previously are complete. You can check them out now. You'll notice that we've grouped your ...

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