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One Athlete Down
- By DrD11 · New reply June 9, 2009
- 13 replies
- One Athlete Down,is the title of an article published in a medical journal.This is the dread of any school coach who is supposed to respond immediately. The coach is to grab the defibrillator and zoom ...
WHERE HAS THIS DOCTOR BEEN FOR THE LAST 6 YEARS?
- By eviefor3 · New reply June 5, 2009
- 28 replies
- wow oh wow oh wow.........i finally found a doctor that i think i can live with.......it took almost a month of frustration to finally get an appointment with her, but if today is any indication, it was ...
big day tomorrow
- By brodielad · New reply June 1, 2009
- 3 replies
- Well tomorrow i see my cardiologist for my 6 month check up , i,m hoping she has good news , I still have a funny feeling in my chest , like a heavyness, like i need to sigh , or something! dont know ...
Optimism
- By runner2002 · New reply May 30, 2009
- 3 replies
- I'm 52 years old and an EMT. The day after last Thanksgiving 2008, I had an SCA and was lucky enough to be among people (including my wife) who knew to begin CPR and next door to a firehouse with EMT's ...
born lucky
- By brodielad · New reply May 30, 2009
- 4 replies
- i,m so thankfull to still be here ...
hate being sick
- By nanamo · New reply May 29, 2009
- 1 reply
- ev1 knows if they are sick they cant come around me but its so hard to say no to seeing my granddaughter she came over last weekend and boom i get sick from here and so did hubby and my daughter ...
Won't take antidepresssents...
- By formydad · New reply May 27, 2009
- 4 replies
- Hello, I have not been on in months. Last I wrote was almost a year ago. My father had an ICD put in, not because he had a SCA but dr's said he was a good candidate for one :-( Since he had his ICD put ...
Husband suffered seizure/ lack of oxygen
- By Ceno · New reply May 26, 2009
- 12 replies
- My husband Alan suffered a seizure at home. February 14th, 2009. When paramedics arrived he was not breathing&he had a heart attack They did give him oxygen, used the paddles. But he went without oxygen ...
CPR/AED awareness week
- By maureengraz · Posted May 22, 2009
- 0 replies
- Check out the CPR/AED awareness week website to see what you can do to help the American Heart Association reach its goal of 1 million trained! cprweek.org ...
New feature: video!
- By Brian · New reply May 12, 2009
- 24 replies
- 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 ...
depression on top of it all
- By pam82 · New reply May 3, 2009
- 8 replies
- It's a bad day i'm feeling so lost and lonely and i'm actually crying which is something i haven't done in months. I just don't feel like i dont belong anymore and i'm scared the anti depressants aren't ...
being here
- By brodielad · Posted May 3, 2009
- 0 replies
- mm well, were do you begin 22-12-08,7;15pm , i went into full cardiac arrest, and died for 1min 47 secs , for me a true miracle as i was laying in emergency room being poked and prodded as my heart was ...
Update
- By pam82 · New reply May 1, 2009
- 4 replies
- Well i'm now on Efexor-xr 150mg i'm starting to feel a lil better which is good am feeling really lonely though ...
Moms, you rock!
- By TeamInspire · Posted May 1, 2009
- 0 replies
- Looking for a unique and extraordinary way to say "thank you" to your mom? In honor of Mother's Day, good friend of Inspire Dr. Gwenn (of http://www.PediatricsNow.com and http://www.DrGwennIsIn.com) will ...
the 25th marks one year
- By nanamo · New reply April 25, 2009
- 5 replies
- that i got my icd which i call trigger now wow that year went by fast............... just seem like yesterday that i was preparing for surgery........... happy birthday trigger ...
Great site
- By Homecat · Posted April 16, 2009
- 0 replies
- I just got my ICD two weeks ago and have had almost not issues - at least nothing important. I have some discomfort as I use my right arm (doc put it on my right side since I'm left-handed). After reading ...
Losing our 16 year old son
- By skydog · New reply April 14, 2009
- 29 replies
- I'm not sure if I'm in the right discussion group but I have been searching the internet trying to find one and I hope nobody minds that I place this entry. We lost our 16 year old son this past September ...
New feature - profile completeness gauge
- By Tasha · New reply April 14, 2009
- 14 replies
- 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 ...
Caregivers..........
- By HopeNskinny · New reply April 6, 2009
- 2 replies
- Never give up. I found that there is more to life then just living. Its called, "Love from a caregiver"! Many people toss out the word, "love" but no one knows the real meaning other then a true caregiver ...
MY DOCTOR
- By bingo · New reply March 24, 2009
- 3 replies
- My doctor told me that there was nothing else to do cardiac wise right now. He said that I was doing good. He said to keep on doing whatever it was that I was doing. Do I still worry about dying? At times ...
