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Support your group and raise awareness with badges

Walter
  • By Walter · Posted June 20, 2008
  • 39 replies
  • 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 ...

Fun with Educate Inn this week!

BKuz
  • By BKuz · Posted June 20, 2008
  • 0 replies
  • Hi everyone! Don't miss this week's Learn Inn and Explore Inn activities! Learn Inn will be on Monday this week (June 23rd 5:30pm by the bistro area) so bring that homework or just yourself :) and come ...

2008 TCI Teen Retreats

spiritual-wellness
  • By spiritual-wellness · Posted June 19, 2008
  • 0 replies
  • WHO? TCI Teens (siblings, too!) Ages 12-25 WHEN? June 30-July 1 & July 28-29 WHAT? Please join us for 2 days packed with fun, friends, adventure, good food & good company! WHERE? TCI & the CC at NIH For ...

2008 TCI Teen Retreats

spiritual-wellness
  • By spiritual-wellness · Posted June 19, 2008
  • 0 replies
  • WHO? TCI Teens (siblings, too!) Ages 12-25 WHEN? June 30-July 1 & July 28-29 WHAT? Please join us for 2 days packed with fun, friends, adventure, good food & good company! WHERE? TCI & the CC at NIH For ...

New feature - profile completeness gauge

Tasha
  • By Tasha · Posted June 12, 2008
  • 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 ...

Explore Inn- Fun with Education tonight at The Inn!

BKuz
  • By BKuz · Posted June 12, 2008
  • 0 replies
  • It's the INN thing to do these days ;)- come join me as we actually have FUN with learning!! At 5pm in the art room we will be doing a cool science project together (for all ages), hope to see you there ...

Join us for fun with Educate Inn this week!

BKuz
  • By BKuz · Posted May 27, 2008
  • 0 replies
  • Hi everyone I hope you can join me at some of this week's Educate Inn activities- Tuesday the 27th come to Learn Inn study hall- to be held upstairs by the parent reception. Bring homework to work on ...

Sometimes we make mistakes

Brian
  • By Brian · Posted May 23, 2008
  • 34 replies
  • 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 ...

Week at a Glance 5/19-5/22

ManagerofFun
  • By ManagerofFun · Posted May 18, 2008
  • 0 replies
  • Hi Everyone, Here's what's going on at The Inn this week: Monday: LearnINN with Bridget at 4:30PM Family Night: Caribbean Style Dinner at 6PM Fun and Games at 7PM Tuesday: Parent Reception 4:30PM Spring ...

Pheo

iamflasunshine
  • By iamflasunshine · Posted May 16, 2008
  • 1 reply
  • Amber is doing fine after having a large Paraganglioma tumor removed last Dec. Her Father has just found out that he has the same SDHB gene that she has. Since my son has it now is my turn to go get tested ...

Fun at The Inn 5/12-5/29

ManagerofFun
  • By ManagerofFun · Posted May 12, 2008
  • 0 replies
  • Hi Everyone, Here's the highlight on activities for the next couple of weeks: Field trip to VisArts today (5/12)! Bus leaves at 3:30pm Dinner Wednesday the 14th at 6pm. NEW: Family Night: Caribbean Style ...

Mystics Tickets

ManagerofFun
  • By ManagerofFun · Posted May 12, 2008
  • 0 replies
  • Hi Everyone! We have recently become the recipient of 10 Mystics tickets periodically throughout the session. Our first game is tomorrow, May 13th. I will post a sign up sheet for them. Please see me ...

Upcoming Events in May around the DC Area

ManagerofFun
  • By ManagerofFun · Posted May 12, 2008
  • 0 replies
  • Hi Everyone, Here are a list of fun family friendly events in the DC Area Community that you might be interesting in knowing about and attending while you're here. Most are free or have a small fee. Please ...

New feature - additional reply notifications

Walter
  • By Walter · Posted May 5, 2008
  • 19 replies
  • Hello everyone. We just added a new feature to help you follow the conversations that you are participating in. You will now get a notification whenever someone replies directly to one of your replies ...

Paraganglioma

iamflasunshine
  • By iamflasunshine · Posted April 28, 2008
  • 0 replies
  • I have a grand daughter that had bad sweating. We didn't know why?? She lived in Vt and would visit us in the summer in Fl so we thought it was our humidity. She had been wearing the same size cloths ...

New feature - See what you've replied to

Walter
  • By Walter · Posted April 25, 2008
  • 26 replies
  • Hello everyone. We just added a feature that many of you have requested - a list of all of the posts that you have replied to. To get to your list, all you need to do is: 1. Sign in 2. Click "Me" in the ...

Educate INN- New Education Program at The Children's Inn

BKuz
  • By BKuz · Posted April 21, 2008
  • 0 replies
  • Hi, my name is Bridget Kuzma and I am the Education Program Coordinator at The Children's Inn. In the past month we have started a few new education programs to help keep everybody learning while they ...

Programs and Activities 4/21-4/27

ManagerofFun
  • By ManagerofFun · Posted April 20, 2008
  • 0 replies
  • Monday 4/21: 4:30-6:00PM: Spring Carnival Rosemary, one of our TCI volunteers is hosting a Spring Carnival, full of food, fun and games! This will be held in the Bistro. Come be a part of the action ...

Hello!

ManagerofFun
  • By ManagerofFun · Posted April 20, 2008
  • 0 replies
  • Hi Inspire Network! My name is Melissa Dutcher and I'm the Family Program Coordinator at the Children's Inn at NIH. Each week, I will be posting what fun and exciting events and activities I have planned ...

Why are we here?

Brian
  • By Brian · Posted April 11, 2008
  • 135 replies
  • When we started this community, each of us faced important health issues in our lives. Some of us have family members with medical conditions. Many of us have medical conditions of our own. All of us ...

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