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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
10 years of life
- By nanamo · Posted October 19, 2009
- Journal · 3 recommendations
- today is 10 years of having a massive heart attack at the age of 32 family history and smoking were my factors women need to edcuate themselves in warning signs and symptons of heart attack for women ...
I love long acting nitrates!
- By NewAllie · Posted August 18, 2009
- Journal · 3 recommendations
- This board has become such an important part of my life that I cannot help but feel the need to apologize for my absence. So many posts I would have responded to. So many new members I would have welcomed ...
Short of breath and tired all the time
- By Ef0168 · Posted April 15, 2009
- Discussion in Life after heart bypass surgery · 3 recommendations
- Hello Everyone This is my first post but have read all your wonderful comments. I had a quad bypass 18 mths ago. Ever since the surgery I have been short of breath and tired all the time. When I tell ...
Easter Morning
- By NewAllie · Posted April 12, 2009
- Journal · 3 recommendations
- I feel like I'm a caterpillar in a cocoon. I've lost all those legs and my old body and identity and I'm waiting, incubating; and like a cocoon, fragile. I've read that if you try to help the baby butterfly ...
The Truth About Heart Disease -
- By gracie62 · Posted September 22, 2009
- Journal · 2 recommendations
- For those of you who know me, you will get this. For those of you who don't, forgive my ramblings. I have gone through a lot of ups and downs since my bypass and heart attack. I feel older and wiser and ...
Guts and Glory
- By NewAllie · Posted August 27, 2009
- Journal · 2 recommendations
- Does it seem to you that the world is somehow on hold? Can you hear a strange silence? Can you feel a stillness that has descended over everything like a soft mist? Maybe it is the transition from Summer ...
My bypass lasted 20 years
- By Old-timer · Posted 1:44 am
- Journal · 1 recommendation
- September of 1985 I needed to have 5 bypass surgery. My experience with a heart attack required quick attention. My job was truck driver. Had the heart attack at home (lucky) and next day was operated ...
Finger tingling and numbness
- By jmkong · Posted October 14, 2009
- Journal · 1 recommendation
- Ever since my bypass on april 29th this year the tips of my fingers feel numb and tingle like they are asleep. will this go away in time ...
love the fall weather
- By nanamo · Posted September 29, 2009
- Journal · 1 recommendation
- but hate how my body aches every year today its 50 crisp cool morning here in ga mountains and yeah i hurt my chest bothers me buts its a ache from being sawed and pulled apart...anyone else hurt in the ...
Keeping up to date
- By pmob20 · Posted August 23, 2009
- Journal · 1 recommendation
- I haven't posted in awhile but it's been 9 weeks post triple bypass and I feel great. I started Cardiac Rehab and go 3 x's a week. It's really helped and I've overcome the fear of getting short of breath ...
Goals and Expectations
- By NewAllie · Posted July 25, 2009
- Journal · 1 recommendation
- When I checked into the hospitals at 5:45 AM yesterday, one of the forms I filled out asked this question, "What are your goals and expectations regarding the procedure you are having done today?" That ...
Come on in
- By yazz · Posted July 18, 2009
- Discussion in Life after heart bypass surgery · 1 recommendation
- Hello and a very good day to you all. I have been relaxing on my bed and visiting the site! Approximately 3 weeks ago I joined the site. I was so scared, confused, my emotions were all over the place….My ...
Nice to have choices
- By NewAllie · Posted July 12, 2009
- Journal · 1 recommendation
- I saw the vascular surgeon on Friday. I'm scheduled to have an arteriogram and hopeful femoral artery stents on the 24th. I had a lot of questions. Why was I having this done? Was the leg critical? Or ...
Palpitatons after bypass normal?
- By agentsl9 · Posted April 25, 2009
- Discussion in Life after heart bypass surgery · 1 recommendation
- The way I ended up there is about 4.5 years ago I started feeling mild chest pain when I exercised. At first it only happened every once and a while. I had many tests and many doctors look at me. They ...
