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Inspire members featured

Brian
  • By Brian · Posted October 28, 2009
  • 29 replies
  • 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 ...

Botox (iv only been waitting for 2 years)

kloua
  • By kloua · Posted September 15, 2009
  • 2 replies
  • well this time 2moro i would of had my botox. im a bit on edge at the moment, not sure whats going to happen iv been being sick alday thou, and im sure im gonna get DKA again. if i do i dont think i will ...

Scheduled maintenance this evening

TeamInspire
  • By TeamInspire · Posted August 10, 2009
  • 13 replies
  • All, Inspire will be performing database updates this evening starting at 8:00 Eastern. We expect the updates to take no more than 2 hours and the site will be unavailable at this time. We thank you for ...

Baby Steps - a scene

maux
  • By maux · Posted July 21, 2009
  • 0 replies
  • A Wow, sounds like you've been through a tough month, but beautiful to help out another as you did. What did it leave with you? B I only nicked myself in the shower. A I mean your friend...? B Him? I ...

Team Spazz! (or I Have a Dream)

maux
  • By maux · Posted July 4, 2009
  • 4 replies
  • [edit: The discussion has moved to http://www.inspire.com/groups/rare-disea se/journal/sps-fundraising-for-research/ ] LADA folks wanted. I have a dream: TEAM SPAZZ! Support for Stiff Man Syndrome. Inspired ...

Share your story via video!

TeamInspire
  • By TeamInspire · Posted June 15, 2009
  • 28 replies
  • 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 ...

Follow Inspire on Twitter and Facebook!

TeamInspire
  • By TeamInspire · Posted June 10, 2009
  • 32 replies
  • 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 ...

Guestbooks are now live!

TeamInspire
  • By TeamInspire · Posted May 26, 2009
  • 6 replies
  • 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 ...

Guestbooks - An exciting addition to Inspire

TeamInspire
  • By TeamInspire · Posted May 20, 2009
  • 35 replies
  • 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 ...

Moms, you rock!

TeamInspire
  • By TeamInspire · Posted May 1, 2009
  • 0 replies
  • 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 ...

Time marches on

VirginiaCougar
  • By VirginiaCougar · Posted April 4, 2009
  • 1 reply
  • No matter how much chaos happens, the clock just keeps on tickin. My youngest daughter just keeps gettin older & more unsatisfied. My grandchildren keep growing. I keep getting fatter. ETC. April 2, 2009 ...

A little bit about me getting type1 and how i changed!

BAD25
  • By BAD25 · Posted April 3, 2009
  • 4 replies
  • when I was first diagnosed with diabetes i was hysterical , at first i thought i was going to die(no lie). then once the dr. explained more about the disease i was relieved but still thought to myself ...

Diabetes Alert Day!

Life-abetes
  • By Life-abetes · Posted March 24, 2009
  • 0 replies
  • Today is the 21st annual "American Diabetes Alert Day". Are you or your loved one at risk? Take the quick Diabetes Risk Test. Just click on the ADA link www.diabetes.org today for health is wealth! Living ...

Looking for answers...

Sekhmet_of_september
  • By Sekhmet_of_september · Posted March 10, 2009
  • 7 replies
  • It has been a long time since I've posted anything, however, I have been reading everyones stories and occasionally commenting on them for the past 2 years. I became pregnant with my son in August of ...

New group in Inspire: The National Body Challenge

Brian
  • By Brian · Posted December 4, 2008
  • 25 replies
  • I am pleased to announce that today we added a new group to Inspire: The National Body Challenge. nationalbodychallenge We created this group in partnership with Discovery Health. The group focuses on ...

Privacy and control

Brian
  • By Brian · Posted August 27, 2008
  • 48 replies
  • At Inspire, we think about privacy all the time. Virtually every web site has a privacy policy; you can read ours here: http://www.inspire.com/about/privacy/. But simply following the letter of a privacy ...

New feature: video!

Brian
  • By Brian · Posted June 28, 2008
  • 24 replies
  • I am pleased to announce that we have updated Inspire to support video. You can now share a video of yourself, videos that you find inspirational or informative, and more. I've included one of myself ...

Sometimes we make mistakes

Brian
  • By Brian · Posted May 23, 2008
  • 34 replies
  • Two months ago, when we launched Inspire 2.0, we added a group called 'Team Inspire'. We did this with the best intentions: we wanted the group to be a space for new members to get oriented, ask questions ...

Why are we here?

Brian
  • By Brian · Posted April 11, 2008
  • 135 replies
  • When we started this community, each of us faced important health issues in our lives. Some of us have family members with medical conditions. Many of us have medical conditions of our own. All of us ...

Welcome from TeamInspire!

TeamInspire
  • By TeamInspire · Posted March 13, 2008
  • 35 replies
  • 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 ...

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