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GOOD NEWS GOOD NEW - UPDATE ON MAYRE

snettie
  • By snettie · New reply yesterday at 5:32 pm
  • Journal · 25 replies
  • My Dear Friends I realise that maybe using my journal is not the best place to write this notice but I was afraid that maybe some of you would no longer be followings the TOMORROW IS THE DAY! posting ...

Presentation? Check!

jmills
  • By jmills · New reply May 17, 2013
  • Journal · 7 replies
  • I finished my community health oral presentation, it was excellent! Now back to the hospital where I will attempt to finish studying for my exams that I have tomorrow and Friday. =/ Apparently my kidney ...

Tomorrow is the day...

kkate
  • By kkate · New reply May 14, 2013
  • Journal · 84 replies
  • It will be an early start tomorrow.. I have to be at admitting at 6 am, surgery is 7:40. So will be leaving the house by 5:15 or so. An early start, but just as well.. just get up, shower and go. Hopefully ...

5 days to go..

kkate
  • By kkate · New reply May 8, 2013
  • Journal · 34 replies
  • meandering thoughts.. not sleeping very well, so take naps often. I wake a lot wet from sweating, belly cramps are getting stronger again. For that reason I am glad the days are counting down. I am keeping ...

12 days to go... for RC

kkate
  • By kkate · New reply May 3, 2013
  • Journal · 19 replies
  • Keeping busy.. things around the house, inside and out. Spending time with family, playing with the g'kids. Second oldest g'son just turned 16! youngest g'child is 1 1/2. How blessed I am to have so many ...

stoma 'tattoo'

kkate
  • By kkate · New reply April 28, 2013
  • Journal · 4 replies
  • *laughing* still.. over Katuha's picture of a possible stoma tattoo! Trying to come up with something that will make the OR team smile. Taping a picture of the tattoo Katuha showed us, over the marked ...

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

John2
  • By John2 · New reply April 16, 2013
  • Journal · 16 replies
  • 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 ...

My bladder.

amaisy36
  • By amaisy36 · New reply March 24, 2013
  • Discussion in Other urologic conditions · 3 replies
  • I recently had a bladder sling surgery back in February. I've noticed a big difference in the way it feels when I have to urinate. It kinda builds, builds, builds (lots of pressure) and then it'll release ...

Sling Surgery

amaisy36
  • By amaisy36 · New reply March 23, 2013
  • Journal · 4 replies
  • On the 26th of last month, Feb., I had a bladder sling surgery. At the same time, I had a hysterectomy. It's only been a couple of weeks so far, yet I've noticed wonderful differences with my body! My ...

ongoing..

kkate
  • By kkate · New reply February 17, 2013
  • Journal · 7 replies
  • i have gone through the first cycle of BCG treatments.. 6 wks, Today starting on the 3 wk. cycle. Scared, craving information on how to deal with it, others stories, coping.. all of it. So much 'information ...

Worried About Having Wetting Accident During Air Travel

rjmn4
  • By rjmn4 · New reply February 7, 2013
  • Discussion in Incontinence - General · 3 replies
  • I have an airline trip planned in a few months an am worried about trying to protect myself from having a wetting accident during a long flight. Am specifically worried about wearing protection for the ...

The Inspire Q&A: Inspire talks with Lindsey Miller

John2
  • 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 ...

SHOULD I GET A NEOBLADDER?

miaantoinette
  • By miaantoinette · New reply January 23, 2013
  • Discussion in Incontinence - General · 2 replies
  • Hi, I'm Mia! I'm 19 and I've had a foley catheter for about three years. I had radiation on my abdomen and as a result my bladder doesn't stretch normally. I'm looking into a neobladder because the foley ...

We're hiring!

Walter
  • By Walter · Posted January 22, 2013
  • Journal · 0 replies
  • 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 ...

I Think I Ate A Desert

jmills
  • By jmills · New reply January 18, 2013
  • Journal · 13 replies
  • I have been so intensely thirsty recently! So much so that I wake up in the middle of the night and have trouble breathing because it’s hard to get my mouth open to properly, my tongue is all swollen ...

Blood in urine

Froggie38
  • By Froggie38 · New reply January 17, 2013
  • Discussion in Other urologic conditions · 3 replies
  • Oct 5, 2011 I woke up, peed with a terrific amount of pain. The stool was filled with bright red blood. I am 74 and I knew this should not be this way. I went to a walk in clinic after 3 days and was ...

Headed in the Right Direction

jmills
  • By jmills · New reply January 3, 2013
  • Journal · 17 replies
  • Since we couldn't get the answers we wanted from the doctors we visited, my mom called a doctor up at Memorial Sloan-Kettering in NYC. This guy basically wrote the book on head and neck cancers. They ...

Free Fall Prevention Video Chat Going On Now

NAFCmemberservices
  • By NAFCmemberservices · Posted November 13, 2012
  • Journal · 0 replies
  • Log on to YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyXeOl-VS Z4 to post comments and questions to Dr. Alayne Markland, geriatrician at the University of Alabama at Birmingham Center for Aging. This is a ...

Free Educational OAB Webinar Tonight

NAFCmemberservices
  • By NAFCmemberservices · Posted November 12, 2012
  • Journal · 0 replies
  • Join us for a free online seminar led by Nancy Muller, PhD, executive director of the National Association For Continence. Participants will learn about the symptoms, treatment options and management ...

Spread the Word: National Bladder Health Week is Nov. 12-16th

NAFCmemberservices
  • By NAFCmemberservices · New reply November 7, 2012
  • Journal · 2 replies
  • NAFC's 2012 Bladder Health Week Schedule of Events Monday, November 12 - Overactive Bladder Day http://www.bladderhealthawareness.org/mo n-nov-12/ Guest blogs specifically about OAB OAB webinar at 8pm ...

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