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What - Inspire is a place where you can connect with people who share your health concerns and find information and advice in groups sponsored by organizations you know and trust.
Why - As a member you can use Inspire to let friends and family know how you're doing, contact others who share your health concerns, receive personalized updates and information about participating in surveys and clinical trials, and more.
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Support your group and raise awareness with badges
- By Walter · Posted June 20, 2008
- Journal · 33 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 ...
Welcome from 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
- By TeamInspire · Posted May 20, 2009
- Journal · 22 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 ...
Sometimes we make mistakes
- By Brian · Posted May 23, 2008
- Journal · 19 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 ...
NSCLC - new life expectancy stats
- By debs322 · Posted August 22, 2008
- Discussion in Non-small cell lung cancer - Stage IV · 17 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 ...
Suwaree, my wife wants to say ‘GOOD BYE’ to you.
- By ponnatee · Posted June 9, 2009
- Discussion in Family members and caregivers · 10 recommendations
- Dear Brothers, Sisters and Friends, “First of all, I would like to thank you for your prayers during my battle with cancer for these six years. Lots of miracles have become testimonies to many people ...
extensive sclc..any survivors past 2 years?3yrs?4yrs??
- By Daughter816 · Posted March 15, 2009
- Discussion in Small cell lung cancer · 10 recommendations
- Please tell me there are you miracles out there that are still going strong with extensive sclc???? Anyone in remission??? I need my Dad and he just began the battle,he's doing ok,feels good and no reaction ...
Inspire members featured
- By Brian · Posted October 28, 2009
- Journal · 9 recommendations
- 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 ...
Re; I finally figured out why the family stays away!
- By cuddles53 · Posted October 6, 2009
- Discussion in Non-small cell lung cancer - Stage IV · 6 recommendations
- I was just thinking, and thought I would write a little something about myself. I think I am in the mood for a pity party so thought you might like to join me. For those of you out there who get into ...
Hard Decision: 1B adjuvant chemo or not?
- By dm6maj7 · Posted October 27, 2009
- Discussion in Non-small cell lung cancer - Stage I · 5 recommendations
- I've been advised by my surgeon, who removed a 4cm adenocarcinoma last month (RLL, RML removed; no lymph node involvement) that the cancer has been removed, not to get chemo, just to live my life and ...
Try to Laugh About It All: Best and Worst Said to You Since Diagnosis?
- By terrywind · Posted July 9, 2009
- Discussion in Family members and caregivers · 5 recommendations
- Worst: "We were talking and we decided that if you had to be married to anybody while going through lung cancer, you're the one to be married to." Best: "Whatever happens, I will be beside you and I WILL ...
New Facebook Group: "WTF" (Where's the Funding) for Lung Cancer
- By JJW · Posted October 30, 2009
- Discussion in Non-small cell lung cancer - General · 4 recommendations
- Hello all. I started a Facebook Group called: "WTF" (Where's the Funding) for Lung Cancer? Yes, you get the double-entrendre. Some may find it a bit crude. I find it necessary to get peoples' attention ...
Home Again
- By Toddy · Posted October 21, 2009
- Discussion in Non-small cell lung cancer - General · 4 recommendations
- My brain isn't working yet nor are my fingers. I want to thank everyone for their prayers, good thoughts and wishes and say how humbled and thrilled I was to see all the messages of hope when I logged ...
Ex_turned_caregiver, going back to Ex
- By Ex_turned_Caregiver · Posted October 24, 2009
- Journal · 3 recommendations
- It was just starting to feel like home again. I knew where I was when I woke up and I eventually recovered my memories of where we keep stuff in our home. Our cupboards here are as sparse as the Ex's ...
breast cancer surv. of 9 yrs now diag. with stage 3a lung cancer
- By pjbubbles47 · Posted October 19, 2009
- Journal · 3 recommendations
- hi there Just wanted to see if anyone out there has been in the same situation that i am..i was just about to celebrate my nine yrs in remission of breast cancer and then i was diagnoised with stage 3a ...
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 ...
I'm Stoked-They Printed it!
- By BetsyT · Posted September 24, 2009
- Discussion in Non-small cell lung cancer - General · 3 recommendations
- Finally!! Check it out & feel free to copy & use it. http://www.the-signal.com/news/article/1 8379 ...
Pain tx options during post-op/ meds in gen.
- By janetbd · Posted September 5, 2009
- Journal · 3 recommendations
- Recently had a family member have back surgery (for the third time) and during her post -op time she immediately was in so much pain. She tried to get by on what she was told had been ordered by MD. The ...
Forgiveness
- By BetsyT · Posted June 29, 2009
- Journal · 3 recommendations
- Is it our JOB to forgive people that have walked away after our DX? A very tolerant, loving woman I know said you cannot forgive someone if they are not sorry. That makes sense to me. I "think" I can ...
HBOT For Radiation-induced Necrosis
- By gpawelski · Posted January 5, 2009
- Journal · 3 recommendations
- Radiation-induced necrosis is a serious reaction to radiation treatment. It may result from the death of tumor cells and associated reaction in surrounding normal brain or it may result from the necrosis ...