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Why are we here?

Brian
  • By Brian · Posted April 11, 2008
  • 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
  • 23 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 ...

Changes that you have requested are on the way

Beth
  • By Beth · Posted March 28, 2008
  • 9 recommendations
  • Hello everyone. We've been hard at work on many of the great suggestions that you've sent us. This week we've been cooking up some changes to the group home page, and hope to make them public very soon ...

New feature - additional reply notifications

Walter
  • By Walter · Posted May 5, 2008
  • 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 ...

Privacy and control

Brian
  • 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 ...

Upcoming improvements to the messaging system

Walter
  • By Walter · Posted June 1, 2008
  • 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 ...

Improvements to the message system are complete

Walter
  • By Walter · Posted June 10, 2008
  • 6 recommendations
  • Hello everyone. Just a quick note to let you know that the improvements to the message system that I wrote about previously are complete. You can check them out now. You'll notice that we've grouped your ...

New feature - profile completeness gauge

Tasha
  • By Tasha · Posted June 12, 2008
  • 5 recommendations
  • Greetings from TeamInspire! I'm your friendly neighborhood designer, here to tell you about some new features. You might notice that today we revamped your member homepage - https://www.inspire.com/member-home.pl ...

Loneliness

Zacolton
  • By Zacolton · Posted May 26, 2008
  • 5 recommendations
  • My latest post is on loneliness in relation to disease. I'm wondering how others feel about this? http://jeromemorrow.wordpress.com/ For the first time in a long while I am feeling homesick. I miss my ...

Finding a New Normal

MarieTwinTubes
  • By MarieTwinTubes · Posted April 13, 2008
  • 4 recommendations
  • My twin tubes (feeding tube and tracheostomy) will have a two year anniversary on May 14. It has been quite a learning experience; but for me life is much better. I breathe better than I have in years ...

Need another source of income

Zacolton
  • By Zacolton · Posted July 14, 2008
  • 3 recommendations
  • So I'm currently working at Blockbuster and the job is great but problem I only have enough energy to work at maximum 30 hours a week and when I head to university this winter I won't be able to juggle ...

This Is Great!

Zacolton
  • By Zacolton · Posted March 24, 2008
  • 3 recommendations
  • I'm so pleased to see this site finally active, and I must say it is even greater the plan of action I suggested last conference in Cape Cod. I'm happy to have helped if even in just suggesting this and ...

questions about the tunnelled groshong line

Kathryn1972
  • By Kathryn1972 · Posted November 15, 2008
  • 2 recommendations
  • I am new to the forum and have only just started posting. I have severe gastroparesis and Behcets Disease. I have been on and off TPN for a few years, but 5 months ago it was decided I needed to go on ...

Jake

shan789
  • By shan789 · Posted November 7, 2008
  • 2 recommendations
  • So we ended up at the ER last night, with a very clogged NG tube. The dr. had a nurse try to unclog it, but it wouldn't budge. So they ended up putting in a new one. This one is a little bigger, and last ...

Another Day more pain

DGSTRICK
  • By DGSTRICK · Posted August 18, 2008
  • 2 recommendations
  • Well today is another day of pain and agony. I tried to increase to speed of my feeding pump ( Kangaroo Joey) but it hurts too much. I woke up last night in soo much pain and I had to turn the setting ...

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