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Guestbooks - An exciting addition to Inspire

TeamInspire
  • 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!

TeamInspire
  • 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

Brian
  • 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 ...

The stages of grief/acceptance

Jamesrochelle
  • By Jamesrochelle · Posted November 5, 2009
  • Discussion in Surviving SCA · 2 recommendations
  • Until this week I had been going along in what I refer now to as denial. My SCA happened in July and within a week I had an ICD. It all happened so fast and without warning. I had a dream last night and ...

Arrhythmias

redhead4u777
  • By redhead4u777 · Posted October 8, 2009
  • Journal · 2 recommendations
  • In my mind I was planning out my day, mindlessly performing my pre-work morning rituals. Make my lunch-check. Iron my shirt-check. Wake up on the kitchen floor. What? Did I just faint again? On the way ...

ICD, LQT, low potassium

edmar
  • By edmar · Posted November 3, 2009
  • Journal · 1 recommendation
  • I'm a SCA survivor, and i'm lucky to be alive again. I fainted, April 23, 2009, the reason i was rushed to the hospital. I was admitted for 12 days, and after a series of tests and investigation, my doctor ...

HAS ANYONE OUT THERE HAD MORE THAT ONE PHANTOM SHOCK

bingo
  • By bingo · Posted October 31, 2009
  • Discussion in Living with an ICD · 1 recommendation
  • Has anyone out there had more than one phantom shock? I have had (2) two. I was told that I dreamed it. If I did then it wasn't funny. I'd just like to know if I'm losing it or have already lost it. bingo ...

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