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Welcome from TeamInspire!
- By TeamInspire · Posted March 13, 2008
- 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
- 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
- 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 ...
New feature - profile completeness gauge
- By Tasha · Posted June 12, 2008
- 9 recommendations
- Greetings from TeamInspire! I'm your friendly neighborhood designer, here to tell you about some new features. You might notice that today we revamped your member homepage - https://www.inspire.com/member-home.pl ...
Share your story via video!
- By TeamInspire · Posted June 15, 2009
- 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
- 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
- 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 ...
SO excited to share what I have found!
- By pwrsrg77 · Posted November 4, 2009
- 3 recommendations
- I have received TONS of wonderful support from this amazing community of people just like myself. All that struggle with debilitating symptoms, wrong diagnosis, less than quality doctors etc... I wish ...
10 years of life
- By nanamo · Posted October 19, 2009
- 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
- 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 ...
Easter Morning
- By NewAllie · Posted April 12, 2009
- 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 ...
Cardiac Patients: Obtain record copies now
- By martzj · Posted February 24, 2009
- 3 recommendations
- 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 ...
Bottoms of Feet Hurt - especially the Heel
- By Peggy59 · Posted November 17, 2009
- 2 recommendations
- I've had a new development in the last couple of months in that the bottom of my feet hurt, especially the left heel. I brought it up with my apt with my rheumatologist in October and he said I may need ...
Arrhythmias
- By redhead4u777 · Posted October 8, 2009
- 2 recommendations
- In my mind I was planning out my day, mindlessly performing my pre-work morning rituals. Make my lunch-check. Iron my shirt-check. Wake up on the kitchen floor. What? Did I just faint again? On the way ...
Guts and Glory
- By NewAllie · Posted August 27, 2009
- 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 ...
love the fall weather
- By nanamo · Posted September 29, 2009
- 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 ...
Death in the Family
- By Peggy59 · Posted August 16, 2009
- 1 recommendation
- Well I spent all last week at a bed-side vigil of my brother-in-law who passed away yesterday of lung cancer. It was an excruciating week of no sleep; little food; no meds; and terrible emotional days ...
Goals and Expectations
- By NewAllie · Posted July 25, 2009
- 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 ...
Nice to have choices
- By NewAllie · Posted July 12, 2009
- 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 ...
My cardiologist: "the devil himself?"
- By Kennarina · Posted July 3, 2009
- 1 recommendation
- Letters to the Editor, Victoria Times Colonist, Wednesday, June 24, 2009 ‘Dress codes in hospital should respect patients’ Dear Editor, 'In May, I had to stay in the Royal Jubilee Hospital cardiology ...
