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Losing Your Faith

chaplainstevens
  • By chaplainstevens · New reply 3:28 am
  • Journal · 23 replies
  • I used to always wonder how a person could "lose" thier faith, that was when I was young and strong, being in chronic pain and illness the last 11 years helps me better understand HOW a person can lose ...

Five million

Brian
  • By Brian · New reply May 18, 2013
  • Journal · 205 replies
  • Dear members, Yesterday, Inspire reached a milestone: five million posts written by members! Each of these posts, and the 700 million words they contain, are a simple measure of how much we all do to ...

Pain and sex (Yes the Chaplain is talking sex..lol)

chaplainstevens
  • By chaplainstevens · New reply May 16, 2013
  • Journal · 31 replies
  • How many of you have had problems with sexual intercourse since you have been sick? Being in pain is rough because sexual gymnastics is very difficult when just walking down the hall is painful. What ...

Demons at My Door

chaplainstevens
  • By chaplainstevens · New reply May 10, 2013
  • Journal · 35 replies
  • One thing I have been wrestling with MOST of my life from childhood until the present is depression. I don't discuss it much because most of my Christians friends act like depression is a SIN. Being chronically ...

Natural Things to Help Relieve Stress

chaplainstevens
  • By chaplainstevens · New reply May 7, 2013
  • Journal · 4 replies
  • 1. Soothing Music 2. Exercise 3. Give and get hugs 4. Sex (Yes sex) 5. Singing 6. Meditation 7. Prayer 8. Screaming ...

God Knows When We Have Had Enough

chaplainstevens
  • By chaplainstevens · New reply May 5, 2013
  • Journal · 24 replies
  • I had a case where a Korean lady (who was a devout Christian) had Cancer in her hip bones and lower spine, she was in excruciating pain, her husband also a Christian would not give consent for her to ...

I Didn't Ask to Be SICK!

chaplainstevens
  • By chaplainstevens · New reply May 5, 2013
  • Journal · 13 replies
  • Sometimes we try and make folks that are SUFFERING villains, I get soooo tired of Word Faith preachers telling sick people "If you had faith you wouldn't be sick" I recall Fred Price and his wife BOTH ...

A new Inspire report in collaboration with Stanford Medical School

Brian
  • By Brian · New reply May 5, 2013
  • Journal · 84 replies
  • As many of you know, Inspire has a professional collaboration with the Stanford University School of Medicine. Inspire members have written personal stories for the Stanford Scope column. I am pleased ...

The Stigma of Mental Illness and Veterans

chaplainstevens
  • By chaplainstevens · New reply April 29, 2013
  • Journal · 7 replies
  • I am a disabled vet that has been fighting with the VA for over 10 years about disability benifits, a lot of our vets come home with PTSD and a host of other issues THEY themselves do NOT really understand ...

The Inspire Q&A: Inspire talks with Deanna Attai, MD

John2
  • By John2 · New reply April 16, 2013
  • Journal · 16 replies
  • Dear members, We at Inspire are pleased to bring you the latest in a series of Q&A interviews with people who are making contributions to helping patients and caregivers worldwide. The people in this ...

Inflammatory Markers

mylove4myboys
  • By mylove4myboys · Posted March 5, 2013
  • Discussion in General discussion · 0 replies
  • Inflammatory markers Serum proteins that are produced in response to inflammation can be referred to as inflammatory markers. These proteins are mainly produced by the liver in response to stress and ...

CAAIDiology CME

mylove4myboys
  • By mylove4myboys · Posted March 5, 2013
  • Discussion in General discussion · 0 replies
  • StopCAIDnow helped fund and start the first CME on CAID so Drs all over the world can learn about CAID/CAAIDology. Thank you to the Cleveland Clinic and Dr. Spalding/crew for helping to design these well ...

The Inspire Q&A: Inspire talks with Lindsey Miller

John2
  • By John2 · New reply February 6, 2013
  • Journal · 13 replies
  • We at Inspire are pleased to bring you the latest in a series of Q&A interviews with people who are making contributions to helping patients and caregivers worldwide. The people featured in our Q&A series ...

We're hiring!

Walter
  • By Walter · Posted January 22, 2013
  • Journal · 0 replies
  • Hello everyone, We have a position open with our engineering team at Inspire, and I'd like to share the job description with you in the event you know just the person we're looking for. We found our most ...

BUY/DOWNLOAD and help our children

mylove4myboys
  • By mylove4myboys · Posted November 14, 2012
  • Discussion in General discussion · 0 replies
  • here is the link for people to go purchase Ready to FLY for CAID on amazon! http://www.amazon.com/Ramhead-Management -Matrax-Production-Devon/dp/B009TA86GM/r ef=sr_shvl_album_1?ie=UTF8&qid=135284101 4&sr=301-1 ...

StopRareDiseaseBullyingNow

mylove4myboys
  • By mylove4myboys · Posted October 30, 2012
  • Discussion in General discussion · 0 replies
  • FB ~ StopRareDiseaseBullyingnow/stopcaidnow email ~ StopRDBnow@aol.com Protecting our children from Bullying who have a Rare Disease~ LET US DO MORE THAN SIGN A PETITION TO STOP RDB LETS JOIN A MOVEMENT ...

How StopCAIDnow.org got started

mylove4myboys
  • By mylove4myboys · Posted October 30, 2012
  • Discussion in Newly diagnosed · 0 replies
  • Lisa Moreno-Dickinson searched for a diagnosis for her son, Brody, for 19 months. Now, she helps others in the same situation Read their story:Lisa Moreno-Dickinson searched for a diagnosis for her son ...

FIRST NATIONAL CLINIC 4 CAID AT THE CLEVELAND CLINIC giving.ccf.org/stopcai

mylove4myboys
  • By mylove4myboys · Posted July 24, 2012
  • Discussion in Advocacy and awareness · 0 replies
  • FIRST NATIONAL CLINIC 4 CAID AT THE CLEVELAND CLINIC giving.ccf.org/stopcaidnow StopCAIDnow is focused on providing tools which build awareness of all childhood auto-inflammatory diseases (CAID), a group ...

The Inspire Q&A: Inspire talks with Howard Luks, MD

John2
  • By John2 · New reply April 15, 2012
  • Journal · 59 replies
  • Dear Inspire Community Members, We at Inspire are pleased to bring you the latest in a series of Q&A interviews with people we feel are making contributions to helping patients worldwide. We are posting ...

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