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Guestbooks - An exciting addition to Inspire

TeamInspire
  • 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 ...

Follow Inspire on Twitter and Facebook!

TeamInspire
  • 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

Brian
  • 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 ...

Anyone in Minnesota?

APB
  • By APB · Posted November 21, 2009
  • Discussion in Off-Topic · 2 recommendations
  • NfIncMn’s web site: http://www.nfincmn.org/ (the web site appears totally defunct. There is no contact info including phone or e-mail. No mission statement. No vision statement. No programs. No bulletin ...

The struggle so far...

guilty_spork
  • By guilty_spork · Posted November 13, 2009
  • Discussion in Living with NF1 · 2 recommendations
  • With the crusade atmosphere of late, I thought I'd take a minute to get back to why I'm really here on the site. Finally, after years of pushing and pleading and going from doc to doc, I found a doc who ...

HEAD ACHES AND NUMBNESS AND TINGLING

pjkd
  • By pjkd · Posted November 3, 2009
  • Discussion in Living with NF1 · 2 recommendations
  • Does any one ever get the head aches and numbness and tingling in there hands and legs. When I get head aches it feels like my head it going to pop off. The other I could not pick up my cell phone my ...

GHOST

Pikk
  • By Pikk · Posted October 30, 2009
  • Discussion in Off-Topic · 2 recommendations
  • Do you belive in ghost or seen a ghost. I have when i was 10 years old ...

Where/when do you start?

Alpacha-pal
  • By Alpacha-pal · Posted November 16, 2009
  • Discussion in Living with NF1 · 1 recommendation
  • How do you decide when to apply for disability? Then once you decide where do you start? I have been putting off filing...don't want to admit it is time. However if I wait to long, will I be able to cope ...

Vitamin D=Sunlight?

sweetiecat
  • By sweetiecat · Posted November 5, 2009
  • Discussion in Living with NF1 · 1 recommendation
  • I have a question and I'm hoping you all can help me with it. When I saw the neurologist at Cincinnati Children's he wanted me to take mega doses of Vitamin D. Like 50,000 units a day for 30 days. He ...

Experimental Treatment with Pure Alcohol

3Pacers
  • By 3Pacers · Posted February 3, 2009
  • Discussion in News, research and advocacy · 1 recommendation
  • One of my son's doctors has suggested injecting pure alcohol into his foot where the tumors cause the most pain for him. He thinks this will treatment will numb the nerve the tumor is growing on and relieve ...

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