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Guestbooks - An exciting addition to Inspire

TeamInspire
  • 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 ...

Inspire members featured

Brian
  • 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?

metwo
  • 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

spunky66
  • 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 ...

Patience

Ovacom06
  • 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 ...

"Life Changes and We Change To Adjust To It"

Ciboney1
  • 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

kimfromaugusta
  • 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

Patricia123
  • 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 ...

How much variation is expected in CA 125 after chemo ends?

Onthemend
  • 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 ...

OCNA: The Dr. Oz show will be doing a segment on ovarian cancer featuring our very own Dr. Barbara Goff. Show scheduled to air Wed., Nov. 11th.

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