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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 ...
Welcome from TeamInspire!
- By TeamInspire · Posted March 13, 2008
- Journal · 25 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 ...
Guestbooks - An exciting addition to Inspire
- By TeamInspire · Posted May 20, 2009
- Journal · 22 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 ...
Sometimes we make mistakes
- By Brian · Posted May 23, 2008
- Journal · 19 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 ...
Inspire members featured
- By Brian · Posted October 28, 2009
- Journal · 9 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 ...
Which is the most bizarre comment you have heard?
- By metwo · Posted May 31, 2009
- Discussion in Survivor stories · 6 recommendations
- I appreciate the care shown by people who have asked about my health as a reflection of their interest in my well being. At the same time, people do say the weirdest things and last week I, who is never ...
almost 9 years
- By spunky66 · Posted April 22, 2009
- Discussion in Survivor stories · 5 recommendations
- It is hard to fathom...I was diagnosed October 2000 and am 6 months shy of being clear of ovarian cancer for almost 9 years....after being diagnosed with stage 3c...and being brca1+...and having a huge ...
Depression...what can we do?
- By abbaschild · Posted October 27, 2009
- Journal · 4 recommendations
- It starts when we are thinking too much about this disease...then waiting for our next CA-125 results to come back...and if the numbers start to climb, we then start worrying more...then the "what if's ...
Patience
- By Ovacom06 · Posted October 26, 2009
- Journal · 4 recommendations
- While going through my cancer battle I came to the realization that there are three types of people who battle cancer: 1. The person who throws up his or her hands and gives up. 2. The person who digs ...
Ovarian cancer not just one disease, study finds
- By donkey799 · Posted December 2, 2008
- Discussion in Clinical trials · 4 recommendations
- Ovarian cancer not just one disease, study finds Treatment for often-fatal illness may change as a result The Vancouver Sun Tue 02 Dec 2008 Page: A5 Section: Westcoast News By: Pamela Fayerman Ovarian ...
HBOT For Radiation-induced Necrosis
- By gpawelski · Posted January 5, 2009
- Journal · 3 recommendations
- Radiation-induced necrosis is a serious reaction to radiation treatment. It may result from the death of tumor cells and associated reaction in surrounding normal brain or it may result from the necrosis ...
"Life Changes and We Change To Adjust To It"
- By Ciboney1 · Posted yesterday at 12:00 am
- Journal · 2 recommendations
- I have been missing from here for a while with not much to say; because of some issues here on the forum and because I have had some news I didn't want to hear ( as I know many of you have had the same ...
I just had to share this with someone
- By kimfromaugusta · Posted October 25, 2009
- Journal · 2 recommendations
- ok.. so like always we were rushing around getting ready for something we were already late for.. i was in the bathroom finishing up.. (one thing you should know, i am completely bald).. i yelled out ...
Things I am grateful for
- By Patricia123 · Posted November 2, 2009
- Discussion in Survivor stories · 1 recommendation
- THe kindness of strangers. A surgeon who knows his way around the territory and wields a scalpel with skill. Oncology nurses on loan from Heaven. Grandchildren who make me laugh and hug me in that way ...
CT Reads
- By melf · Posted October 28, 2009
- Discussion in Recurrence · 1 recommendation
- I went in for a CT not too long ago because Im just not feeling "right". Anyway, the first thing that bugged me, well ticked me off, is that within the read I was called "persistently obese" and the doc ...
Problems with excess hair?
- By Amethystmd2559 · Posted October 27, 2009
- Discussion in Side effects of treatment · 1 recommendation
- Since I am through with my chemo, my hair is trying to grow back, and that is all good. Even my eyelashes, are coming back with more than before and lots thicker. But so are my eyebrows and some facial ...
Take The Time To Live!!!
- By abbaschild · Posted October 23, 2009
- Journal · 1 recommendation
- A little girl had been shopping with her mom in Target. She must have been 6 years old, this beautiful red haired, freckle faced image of innocence. It was pouring rain outside, the kind of rain that ...
Curious
- By Shar123 · Posted October 15, 2009
- Discussion in Late stage · 1 recommendation
- Has anyone done more than 6 rounds of Carbo/Taxol. My doctor said no more than 6 rounds, but I have heard of people that has went up to 12 rounds, and are in remission. Thank you and God Bless, Shari ...
Message of Hope, Kind of Long, Sorry
- By Mullens · Posted July 24, 2009
- Discussion in Recurrence · 1 recommendation
- This year, I remain in a war fighting a relentless disease. In January, 9 months after surgery and 5 months following the initial round of chemotherapy, I was told that the disease had returned. In February ...
How much variation is expected in CA 125 after chemo ends?
- By Onthemend · Posted June 19, 2009
- Discussion in Newly diagnosed · 1 recommendation
- My CA 125 was 8985 (ish) after debulking and came down to 14 during chemo. I am almost 3 months since ending chemo. My ca 125 is now 19. Is this indicitive of a return of the disease? My doctor presented ...
