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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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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 ...
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 ...
Dressing Changes Once a Week
- By cheneyfox · Posted November 10, 2009
- Discussion in Home IV feeding (HPN, parenteral nutrition) · 1 recommendation
- So, we all have some sort of IV line for our HPN, right? Well do we all have to go see a nurse every week to get the dressings changed? I think this is unnecessary. I can change my own dressing. i had ...
hickman catheter removal
- By thelilangel · Posted November 9, 2009
- Discussion in Home IV feeding (HPN, parenteral nutrition) · 1 recommendation
- i have had a hickman catheter in for about 4 months and i will be getting it removed soon. my doctors office schedualed the apointment with the surgen to remove it so i didn't get a chance to ask how ...
Thank you.
- By mom101 · Posted October 31, 2009
- Journal · 1 recommendation
- SuperGroverT - Thank you for sharing you and yor son's journey. I am a mom of a soon-to-be 13 year old who started off with a life threatening heart defect at birth - had surgery at 1 week and also left ...
My parent is EMBARRASSED by my PEG!
- By jackrabbit · Posted September 22, 2009
- Discussion in Home tube feeding (HEN, enteral nutrition) · 1 recommendation
- I wear the tube pinned to the outside of my shirt. I find this more convenient, less hassle, easier access, more comfortable. My mom thinks it's rude of me to have the tube visible. She says I will gross ...
