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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 ...
Guestbooks - An exciting addition to Inspire
- By TeamInspire · Posted May 20, 2009
- Journal · 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
- Journal · 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
- 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 ...
Inspire members featured
- By Brian · Posted October 28, 2009
- Journal · 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
- Journal · 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
- Journal · 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
- 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 ...
Privacy and control
- 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 ...
HANDY LITTLE CHART
- By chefdavid · Posted August 7, 2008
- Journal · 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 ...
Removal of NF Tumors
- By reeny97 · Posted July 20, 2008
- Discussion in Living with NF1 · 6 recommendations
- I am going to NYC tomorrow to meet with Dr. Weinberg a plastic surgeon who removes NF tumors through a process called electro-desiccation. He can remove hundreds of tumors at time. My surgery is on Tuesday ...
Official diagnosis brings me to tears at Barnes & Noble.
- By aimee121477 · Posted June 19, 2008
- Journal · 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 ...
to who is trying to get ssi/ssa
Moms, you rock!
- By TeamInspire · Posted May 1, 2009
- Journal · 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 ...
wondering on location of everyone
- By Sheleena · Posted July 27, 2009
- Discussion in Living with NF1 · 4 recommendations
- hey guys just wondered where everyone was from. I'm from Tennessee and have yet to meet anyone (other than my son) who has NF. I didn't even know what NF was until the doctors said that he had it. No ...
Guestbooks are now live!
- By TeamInspire · Posted May 26, 2009
- Journal · 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 ...
NF 1 tumors next to spine
- By pamamal · Posted August 27, 2009
- Discussion in Living with NF1 · 3 recommendations
- I was 5 yrd old when my parens found out. my dad ahd it also. i am now 40 and my 2 out 3 children have it also. I have a6.3 cm x 5.5 cm tumoe enxt to my spien adding pessure to my nerves and sine causng ...
"The Person Below Me" game
- By KittyLover · Posted August 25, 2009
- Discussion in Off-Topic · 3 recommendations
- This is a fun game that is addictive!! Here's how to play. One person will say something, for example, The Person (who posts) Below Me Plays the Cello. Then the next person will answer true or false ...
Latest Treatment for Neurofibromas
- By WayneK · Posted August 20, 2009
- Discussion in News, research and advocacy · 3 recommendations
- I was diagnosed with NF 20 years ago; I am 36 years old and suffer from many neurofibromas on my arms, chest, and back. They recently started coming on my face. I heard about CO2 laser treatment to remove ...
I'm a freak
- By swtlilwamom · Posted August 14, 2009
- Journal · 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 ...
