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Welcome from TeamInspire!

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

TeamInspire
  • 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!

TeamInspire
  • 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 ...

Uh Oh I am really Dying Soon

JudyV
  • By JudyV · Posted September 28, 2009
  • Journal · 8 recommendations
  • Every now and then it hits. It hit tonight, big time. I wanted to call someone, but who do you call to say something like that? Who would understand how this realization can just suddenly flood over me ...

Share your story via video!

TeamInspire
  • 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 ...

Don't try to drive the Electric Cart where it was Never Meant To Go!

JudyV
  • By JudyV · Posted May 15, 2009
  • Journal · 5 recommendations
  • Ohmigosh I really did it! My daughter had taken me to WalMart, and I used their wonderful electric cart and got to do my favorite thing: shopping I am very worried that I will be banned from all WalMarts ...

Moms, you rock!

TeamInspire
  • 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!

TeamInspire
  • 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 ...

"While Judy & I were Married ..."

JudyV
  • By JudyV · Posted May 24, 2009
  • Journal · 4 recommendations
  • My husband of 38 years said the most telling thing the other day when he and I were chatting with our hospice Chaplain. I complained that Joe and I never did anything together any more. The Chaplain asked ...

Still Alive and Kicking

JudyV
  • By JudyV · Posted May 12, 2009
  • Journal · 4 recommendations
  • Some of my phone calls and emails are sweet and remind me of when I was pregnant and the calls I received after I went past the baby-due-date. People, understandably, want to know where I am in this battle ...

A Lazy Susan for your side table or nightstand

JudyV
  • By JudyV · Posted November 13, 2009
  • Journal · 2 recommendations
  • I was telling someone about this little wonder, and decided to share it more widely by making a journal entry out of it. I recently recited what I keep on the table by my "seat" in the den, the place ...

Tattoo today - Harley tomorrow?

JudyV
  • By JudyV · Posted June 5, 2009
  • Journal · 2 recommendations
  • I am going to get permanent eyebrows! My wonderful hospice team member has arranged it. Other than the little dots for radiation, I have never had a tattoo. I'm nervous about it and I hate pain. I do ...

Is It Real? Can it be?

JudyV
  • By JudyV · Posted November 8, 2009
  • Journal · 1 recommendation
  • This strange life I am living now ... is it real? Who could have imagined this. I am 66. All my young years, thinking of my senior years would have put me on a cruise ship, living in a condo in Florida ...

NEW EYEBROWS, NEW HAIR, NEW OUTLOOK!!

JudyV
  • By JudyV · Posted June 19, 2009
  • Journal · 1 recommendation
  • I did it! Thanks to Amy at Hospice, and "Hope Lives" in Fort Collins, and Abby at Vogue Laser in Loveland, I have eyebrows at last! I had a picture of my eyebrows on here, but they look even better each ...

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