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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
- 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 ...
Guestbooks - An exciting addition to Inspire
- By TeamInspire · Posted May 20, 2009
- 23 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 ...
New feature: video!
- By Brian · Posted June 28, 2008
- 15 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 ...
Follow Inspire on Twitter and Facebook!
- By TeamInspire · Posted June 10, 2009
- 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 ...
Inspire members featured
- By Brian · Posted October 28, 2009
- 10 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 ...
New group in Inspire: The National Body Challenge
- By Brian · Posted December 4, 2008
- 9 recommendations
- 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 ...
MTV Casting Call. True Life: I Have Neurofibromatosis
- By LumpsandBumps · Posted June 18, 2009
- 8 recommendations
- True Life: I Have Neurofibromatosis Are you living with Neurofibromatosis? Do you have visible tumors or spots on your skin that you wish you could get rid of for good? Were you recently diagnosed with ...
Share your story via video!
- By TeamInspire · Posted June 15, 2009
- 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 ...
Privacy and control
- By Brian · Posted August 27, 2008
- 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 ...
HANDY LITTLE CHART
- By chefdavid · Posted August 7, 2008
- 6 recommendations
- God has a positive answer: YOU SAY GOD SAYS BIBLE VERSES You say: 'It's impossible' God says: All things are possible (Luke 18:27) You say: 'I'm too tired' God says: I will give you rest (Matthew 11:28-30 ...
Official diagnosis brings me to tears at Barnes & Noble.
- By aimee121477 · Posted June 19, 2008
- 6 recommendations
- Well, I finally got a call from Kyle's neurologist letting us know what the MRI results were. No tumors, lesions or masses to be concerned about, however, the MRI did show spots called NF1 spots in his ...
Moms, you rock!
- By TeamInspire · Posted May 1, 2009
- 5 recommendations
- 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 ...
Guestbooks are now live!
- By TeamInspire · Posted May 26, 2009
- 4 recommendations
- 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 ...
I'm a freak
- By swtlilwamom · Posted August 14, 2009
- 3 recommendations
- Just a simple poem I thought of today I AM A FREAK You stare and point, at something new. If I am a freak, than so are you. It's ok that you dont understand But I'm just like you, with bumps on my neck ...
I don't know
- By HeathBar · Posted October 24, 2008
- 2 recommendations
- I can't believe its been a year since my tumor was discovered. Still a few more weeks until its been a year since I found out about NF. I was taken out of school, put back home a thousand miles away from ...
Hello...
- By 13amyers · Posted June 29, 2008
- 2 recommendations
- I have had NF1 since I was born. At first it started out with some here and there, but now I have a gazillion everywhere. YOu cant really tell I have it unless im wearing shorts or a dress because they ...
TODAY/surgery
- By KATIELEEN17 · Posted October 3, 2009
- 1 recommendation
- today was a tough day. I went to the eye doctor because my vision in my right eye is blurry. I was hoping it had nothing to do with the acoustic neuromas, but who am I kidding. They have completely taken ...
NF1
- By jared1978 · Posted September 2, 2009
- 1 recommendation
- I was recently diagnosed with neurofibroma(NF1). I have tumors that are located on my spine compressing the C1/C2 area, As well as C5/C6. I consulted with the neuro surgeon today. I do need surgery, which ...
malachi
- By amanda509 · Posted June 29, 2009
- 1 recommendation
- my son has nf,adhd,and hydronemphrosis. doing pretty well though, except a little over a month ago he woke up and his face was swelled it was scary we immediatley called his doctor and got him in they ...
Are Others Ignorant ..... or simply uncaring?
- By FLiceman · Posted June 4, 2009
- 1 recommendation
- ...... How interesting it can be when I speak to others on why I am not coming in to work today. I work for a very large telecommunications company which has home phone service, and fiber optics television ...
