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What - Inspire is a place where you can connect with people who share your health concerns and find information and advice in groups sponsored by organizations you know and trust.
Why - As a member you can use Inspire to let friends and family know how you're doing, contact others who share your health concerns, receive personalized updates and information about participating in surveys and clinical trials, and more.
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Welcome from TeamInspire!
- By TeamInspire · Posted March 13, 2008
- Journal · 25 recommendations
- 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
- 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!
- 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 ...
Inspire members featured
- By Brian · Posted October 28, 2009
- Journal · 10 recommendations
- Today Massachusetts General Hospital's Proto Magazine published a wonderful profile of nine Inspire members. Each of these stories underscores what we all know to be true -- that Inspire is a special ...
Share your story via video!
- 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 ...
Moms, you rock!
- By TeamInspire · Posted May 1, 2009
- Journal · 5 recommendations
- 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
- 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 ...
Guestbooks are now live!
- 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 ...
In Over My Head...I think.
- By GRANDmother19 · Posted October 21, 2009
- Journal · 3 recommendations
- Alan, you suggested that I send my last post "If happy little bluebirds fly" to the oral cancer foundation. Why exactly? I was just "journaling." Of what benefit would it be? And I think I am in over ...
If Happy Little Bluebirds Fly.....
- By GRANDmother19 · Posted October 20, 2009
- Journal · 2 recommendations
- When I was told in 2001 by a very detached shedoc that I had advanced third stage breast cancer, spread to nodes, (you guys know the medical term, but it was estrogen positive) in ducts or out of them ...
Feelings
- By nmhusky · Posted June 12, 2009
- Journal · 2 recommendations
- I have been feeling kind of down lately. During my check-up at the Mayo last week the PET scan showed glucose uptake in several locations in my lungs and on the base of my tongue. The lung hotspots can ...
My Story
- By tah08 · Posted November 14, 2008
- Journal · 2 recommendations
- Last year 2007 I kept having this sharp pain on my right side of my head and neck, plus a sore throat, so I went to Primed and they treated as a cold and it lighten up, but didn't go away, then I went ...
Sharing from my morning for all animal and especially horse lovers
- By paaatriot101 · Posted November 7, 2009
- Journal · 1 recommendation
- Thought I would share this from my morning with all you animal and especially horse lovers. Today I started wearing a mask when I go down to the barn and work around the horses and chickens and hay ...
Official HNC Awareness Week in Georgia
- By JsAngel · Posted October 31, 2009
- Discussion in Awareness and advocacy · 1 recommendation
- Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue has signed and sealed my Proclamation for HNCA Week in the State of Georgia to be April 12-18, 2010. The Official Day is April 16th, 2009 in the State of Georgia! Please ...
Happy Father's Day...Glad to be here
- By Bolt · Posted June 21, 2009
- Journal · 1 recommendation
- Just wanted to say Hi and thank God that I am still here to celebrate Father's Day....and looking forward to next year too. Still 69 and recouping from the head and neck radiation/chemo/neck dissection ...
the power of professional help
- By dleach · Posted June 3, 2009
- Journal · 1 recommendation
- I think a great thing is to admit when you cannot do it alone. In this process while Mason was sick and throughout my life experiences I have been fortunate to use the resources of professionals to help ...
Another poem for David,from Kim
- By Kim_R · Posted April 14, 2009
- Journal · 1 recommendation
- The three words"I love you" Are simply and quickly spoken. Yet they carry more meaning Than any other words known to man "I Love YOU" "David ...
a continuation of our journey from beginning till now 2 yrs later
- By Kim_R · Posted March 24, 2009
- Discussion in Living with head and neck cancer · 1 recommendation
- I have another journal on here called form the beginning till now 2 yrs later that explains our journey if you want to start at the beginning.we are documenting this for our children.Seems like things ...
Oral, Head and Neck Cancer Awareness Week
- By edhickey · Posted January 29, 2009
- Journal · 1 recommendation
- Oral, Head & Neck Cancer Awareness Week (OHANCAW) is a weeklong series of events to educate the public about these potentially life-threatening, but eminently treatable cancers, and promote prevention ...
