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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 ...
Dancing on the abyss
- By yesshecan · Posted November 2, 2009
- Journal · 6 recommendations
- Silent home. Cat sleeps. Dog sleeps. Cancer sleeps. PET scan came back with NED. Yet I am aware, so keenly aware that cancer can sleep and hide and edge forward when it choses. I dance on the abyss. Stare ...
Patience
- By Ovacom06 · Posted October 26, 2009
- Journal · 4 recommendations
- While going through my cancer battle I came to the realization that there are three types of people who battle cancer: 1. The person who throws up his or her hands and gives up. 2. The person who digs ...
Our Journey (To be continued)
- By Dayplace · Posted October 9, 2009
- Journal · 3 recommendations
- My husband Mike, after a family camping trip over the 4th of July started coughing up blood. The Doctor thought it might be valley fever or TB but he was diagnosed in July 2007 with nsclc (poorly-differentiated ...
Final Goodbye to my Angel Seka!!! She lost the battle to OC!!!
- By hope4seka · Posted August 21, 2009
- Journal · 3 recommendations
- Final Goodbye to my Angel Seka!!! She lost the battle to OC!!! It is with great sorrow and sadness that I am sending this out. Seka passed away late Tuesday evening August 18, 2009. I can’t understand ...
Living With Advanced Lung Cancer
- By ESKCSG · Posted November 10, 2009
- Journal · 2 recommendations
Bisphenol A (BPA)
- By LAsky26 · Posted November 8, 2009
- Journal · 2 recommendations
- Interesting info. about the chemical BPA. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/08/opinio n/08kristof.html?emc=eta1 Received from my cancer support group. As with any article, its passed on for your own determination ...
getting ready
- By yesshecan · Posted August 29, 2009
- Journal · 2 recommendations
- Driving through misting splatters of rain, then realize I'm all hunched up and tilted forward. Defensive posture. Tight. Take a few deep breathes and uncoil. Trying for lighter, softer strength. Strength ...
Update on Seka 08/23/2009
- By hope4seka · Posted August 16, 2009
- Journal · 2 recommendations
- I just thought you would like to know… Seka is in the hospital agene as of Friday, 8/16 with severe mouth sores, elevated fever, tired, weak and no energy to do anything, it was even hard to swallow her ...
pick yourself up, dust yourself off and....
- By dontaskdonttell · Posted July 26, 2009
- Journal · 2 recommendations
- how to pick yourself up, dust yourself off and...... everybody has a right to be happy, so says our glorious declaration of independence -- okay, to be more precise the right to the pursuit of happiness ...
Do not be stupid like I was as I didn't even know who was my doctor. RUN
- By dianeS · Posted November 22, 2009
- Journal · 1 recommendation
- I was seeing this new Internist for the first time(I do not like that there just isn't a "Family" Doctor,we only have specialist to see sometimes just unbelievable thing, that cost 20%more). I to this ...
Facing Pancreatic Cancer
- By ESKCSG · Posted November 16, 2009
- Journal · 1 recommendation
- Prominent oncologist and fearless pancreatic cancer patient offer inspiration in recognition of pancreatic cancer awareness month. Until the recent spike of high-profile pancreatic cancer cases among ...
God took my hero home
- By wife · Posted November 8, 2009
- Journal · 1 recommendation
- I lost the other half of my heart this morning. He fought until the very end ...
KNOWING TO MUCH IS GOOD OR BAD
- By lulupanache · Posted October 17, 2009
- Discussion in How my diagnosis changed my life · 1 recommendation
- I will never forget the day l was dx, l had a gut feeling it was not good news, but l asked what would happen and be honest with me, l was given books to read and everything was happening to fast, dx ...
Confusion can lead to anger!
- By LizardmyOli · Posted October 3, 2009
- Journal · 1 recommendation
- I went to the neurophysc yesterday and I realized how out of it my brain is!!! Now I am mad, but at who? I could not complete some simple block puzzles, and word tests and other things. I filled out a ...
pick yourself up situation 2: customer service
- By dontaskdonttell · Posted July 28, 2009
- Journal · 1 recommendation
- the somewhat pale woman in her forties wih just a little too much blusher on the apples of her cheeks called the phone number 777 777. the dispatcher with the faint hindi accent answered Customer Service ...
