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Why are we here?

Brian
  • By Brian · Posted April 11, 2008
  • Journal · 49 recommendations
  • 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 ...

Support your group and raise awareness with badges

Walter
  • By Walter · Posted June 20, 2008
  • Journal · 24 recommendations
  • Hi everyone. We added a new feature today that you can use to support your groups and the organizations that sponsor them, and get the word out about the causes that are important to you. If you visit ...

New feature - See what you've replied to

Walter
  • By Walter · Posted April 25, 2008
  • Journal · 18 recommendations
  • Hello everyone. We just added a feature that many of you have requested - a list of all of the posts that you have replied to. To get to your list, all you need to do is: 1. Sign in 2. Click "Me" in the ...

Welcome from TeamInspire!

TeamInspire
  • By TeamInspire · Posted March 13, 2008
  • Journal · 16 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 ...

Sometimes we make mistakes

Brian
  • By Brian · Posted May 23, 2008
  • Journal · 14 recommendations
  • 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 ...

New feature: video!

Brian
  • By Brian · Posted June 28, 2008
  • Journal · 13 recommendations
  • 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 ...

Welcome!

Brian
  • By Brian · Posted March 13, 2008
  • Journal · 12 recommendations
  • I am pleased to present Inspire 2.0 -- the result of many months of fun and hard work. We have made numerous improvements to your community, the vast majority of which are ideas that came from you! We ...

So Disturbed by a Post I Read

SusanL1
  • By SusanL1 · Posted July 4, 2008
  • Discussion in Non-small cell lung cancer - General · 9 recommendations
  • Hi All: I just read a post that I can't get out of my head. I am so disturbed by it because not only did it basically say in a roundabout way that if we smoked we deserve lung cancer, but also blamed ...

New feature - additional reply notifications

Walter
  • By Walter · Posted May 5, 2008
  • Journal · 8 recommendations
  • Hello everyone. We just added a new feature to help you follow the conversations that you are participating in. You will now get a notification whenever someone replies directly to one of your replies ...

What can you do in the fight against Lung Cancer

SaltyDog
  • By SaltyDog · Posted April 3, 2008
  • Discussion in Survivor stories · 8 recommendations
  • I have been on this site and its predecessor for two years. I have often read someone asking: HOW can we band together to fight lung cancer? I have a clear personal view but , in the interest of full ...

I like this new site!

sb
  • By sb · Posted March 19, 2008
  • Discussion in Non-small cell lung cancer - General · 8 recommendations
  • Gee, I feel like I must speak up because so many people are saying they don't like the site! I was on Dave Grant's original site, then the site changed to the one before this and now this. I think with ...

I need your help.....

D1
  • By D1 · Posted March 11, 2008
  • Discussion in Non-small cell lung cancer - General · 8 recommendations
  • If we have ever connected.....If I wrote to you or you wrote to me.....if we shared advice, fear, ideas, hope, kindness, resources, encouragement, humanity, may I ask you to please, please say a prayer ...

My 'BWP' will never be forgotten

tkitts
  • By tkitts · Posted November 10, 2008
  • Journal · 7 recommendations
  • I am sending a quick post becaouse I have not yet said how much the LCA site gave Pat Hope and others. I remember finding this site while she was in the hospital Jan. 07 and telling her that she should ...

Privacy and control

Brian
  • By Brian · Posted August 27, 2008
  • Journal · 7 recommendations
  • 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 ...

..condolences..

a_white_rabbit
  • By a_white_rabbit · Posted June 9, 2008
  • Discussion in Help desk · 7 recommendations
  • ..i so hate losing a sheep, how much more so to lose a human.. ..i know we're gonna have fall-out here, it's in the nature of our problem, but damn, damn, damn, we shouldn't have to go to the fighter's ...

Upcoming improvements to the messaging system

Walter
  • By Walter · Posted June 1, 2008
  • Journal · 7 recommendations
  • Hello everyone. I'm writing to let you know about some long overdue improvements that we'll be making to this site's messaging system later this week. The messages section is the most frequently visited ...

11 Year Survivor!!!! NSCLC 3-B to 4!!!

suzyqk
  • By suzyqk · Posted November 9, 2008
  • Journal · 6 recommendations
  • Hi! Just wanted to let you all know that there is HOPE!! I am an 11-year survivor! It does happen! As someone posted, most of us are out living our lives--and to the fullest. Given another chance does ...

NSCLC - new life expectancy stats

debs322
  • By debs322 · Posted August 22, 2008
  • Discussion in Non-small cell lung cancer - Stage IV · 6 recommendations
  • My husband, age 54, has Stage IV, NSCLC -adenocarcinoma. Upper left lobe, mets to left adrenal gland and right lymph node in neck (which was removed.) He has had 2 of 6 chemo treatments of carbo/taxol/avastin ...

HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE CONTACTED YOUR SENATORS RE: LUNG CANCER FUNDING

hermanade
  • By hermanade · Posted July 18, 2008
  • Discussion in Lung cancer in the news · 6 recommendations
  • I think that everyone touched by lung cancer, directly or indirectly, has an obligation to contact their senators regarding the lung cancer funding issue that is pending. Somehow, that seems as important ...

In what ways has lung cancer changed your life?

gonehiking
  • By gonehiking · Posted July 13, 2008
  • Discussion in Non-small cell lung cancer - General · 6 recommendations
  • A couple of recent posts by others have got me thinking more about the impact that lung cancer has on our lives. It's a topic that my husband and I have been discussing quite a bit in recent weeks ...

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