Facial Injuries and Disorders Support Group

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Five million

By Brian · New reply June 17, 2013
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Dear members, Yesterday, Inspire reached a milestone: five million posts written by members! Each of these posts, and the 700 million words they contain, are a simple measure of how much we all do to ...

A new Inspire report in collaboration with Stanford Medical School

By Brian · New reply May 5, 2013
Journal · 84 replies
As many of you know, Inspire has a professional collaboration with the Stanford University School of Medicine. Inspire members have written personal stories for the Stanford Scope column. I am pleased ...

The Inspire Q&A: Inspire talks with Deanna Attai, MD

By John2 · New reply April 16, 2013
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Dear members, We at Inspire are pleased to bring you the latest in a series of Q&A interviews with people who are making contributions to helping patients and caregivers worldwide. The people in this ...

Will my first bite syndrome get better with time

By foXfirE1 · Posted February 7, 2013
Discussion in Facial injuries · 0 replies
I had neck surgery a month ago, i had a schawnnoma tumor removed in my left side of my neck. About a two weeks ago i started to get extreme pain when i eat anything. I wnt back to doctor and said he was ...

The Inspire Q&A: Inspire talks with Lindsey Miller

By John2 · New reply February 6, 2013
Journal · 13 replies
We at Inspire are pleased to bring you the latest in a series of Q&A interviews with people who are making contributions to helping patients and caregivers worldwide. The people featured in our Q&A series ...

We're hiring!

By Walter · Posted January 22, 2013
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Hello everyone, We have a position open with our engineering team at Inspire, and I'd like to share the job description with you in the event you know just the person we're looking for. We found our most ...

50

By panda47 · New reply August 30, 2012
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Well I made it to 50!! When I was diagnosed in 12/09 with tonsil cancer stage 3 spread to lymph node and given three different chances of survival of 50/50, 75 and 20 to 30 I thought I was done, cooked ...

so easy to forget sometimes

By unsuremom · New reply August 3, 2012
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The other morning I was laying in bed listening to the baby (9 mo old) babbling and my oldest daughter (who is almost 5) got up and when she walked past the babies room she heard her and went in the room ...

Started grieving all over again

By unsuremom · New reply July 26, 2012
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Sadie is now 7 mo old and is doing fantastic. Yes she is about 2 -3 months behind developmentally, but I don't care, she is at least moving forward. And to look at her she seems like a "normal child ...

Sources sought for article about high-deductible health plans

By John2 · Posted June 25, 2012
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From: John Novack, Communications Director, Inspire Hi members, A writer with Workforce Management, a magazine (http://www.workforce.com) that covers employees and benefits issues, contacted us saying ...

Cranial Nerve Issues

By unsuremom · New reply May 26, 2012
Journal · 4 replies
My daughter is 6 1/2 mo old. And she is a pure mystery. Not one Dr can tell us what is going on with her. I'm not big on labels, and would rather her not be labeled. However, I also want to have some ...

The Inspire Q&A: Inspire talks with Howard Luks, MD

By John2 · New reply April 15, 2012
Journal · 59 replies
Dear Inspire Community Members, We at Inspire are pleased to bring you the latest in a series of Q&A interviews with people we feel are making contributions to helping patients worldwide. We are posting ...

The Inspire Q&A--Inspire talks with Susan Grant

By John2 · New reply February 15, 2012
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Dear readers, We at Inspire are pleased to bring you the latest in a series of interviews with people making contributions to helping patients and caregivers worldwide. We are posting these interviews ...

First Bite Syndrome really hurts.

By badd302 · Posted January 28, 2012
Discussion in Facial injuries · 0 replies
Awhile back, I was a victim of a violent attack where I was almost beaten to death with a baseball bat. One of these hits was on the left side of my face, knocking out my teeth and splitting my mouth ...

Inspire is hiring!

By Walter · New reply January 20, 2012
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Inspire is hiring, and we're wondering if you know someone who would be the perfect addition to our team. Hello everyone, I'm Walter, one of Inspire's founders and the head of our technical team. I'm ...

The Inspire Q&A--Inspire talks with Michele Baldwin

By John2 · Posted January 3, 2012
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Dear readers, We at Inspire are pleased to bring you the latest in a series of interviews with people making contributions to patients and caregivers worldwide. We are posting these interviews in a Q&A ...

Following: A new Inspire feature

By Walter · New reply December 5, 2011
Journal · 111 replies
Hello everyone, I'm writing to let you know about a new Inspire feature that we launched last night, designed to help you keep track of conversations you're interested in. We call it "following" and here's ...

19 years on...

By rozzie111 · Posted October 22, 2011
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19 years ago i suffered an intense injury to the area between my top lip and my nose, which was eventually stitched after a long car trip to the nearest hospital, about 2 hours ; i just cant move on from ...

Patient-driven research

By Brian · Posted October 13, 2011
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I'd like to share with you a new Inspire report, The SCAD Ladies Stand Up: Stories of Patient Empowerment, which chronicles patient-initiated research in our community. This amazing patient-driven effort ...

Car accident support..

By jennajayne · New reply September 12, 2011
Journal · 1 reply
Even though everyone else can not tell the difference, I seem to see every new flaw in my face. I've been looking for groups, looking for someone, anyone, that could possibly come close to understanding ...

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