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worried mom

bonn250
  • By bonn250 · Posted November 22, 2008
  • 12 replies
  • my 7 year old daughter has had fevers every4-6 weeks since she was 4.5 years old she also has swollen lymph nodes,mouth ulcers,rashes,& joint pain. This last 7-10 days. The Drs. think it might be hibernian ...

Feeling more lost then ever! with medical and education

CanadaNuse
  • By CanadaNuse · Posted November 17, 2008
  • 3 replies
  • A lot has been happening on the home front. Ash's medical team including mental health are changing her dosage of medications, times given etc. In hopes that the current combination of medications will ...

Explore Inn: Fun Science Experiments

BKuz
  • By BKuz · Posted November 17, 2008
  • 0 replies
  • Don't miss this wonderful opportunity to enjoy hands on activities and cool demonstrations with Scientist Mr. Freiland this Thursday, Nov. 20th at 7:00pm in The Art Room! You've never been to a Science ...

Periodic Fever Syndrome Conventions?

rybrans07
  • By rybrans07 · Posted November 15, 2008
  • 6 replies
  • Hi my name is Kim and my daughter Sarah has FMF. I read on someone else's journal that there are Conventions for families dealing with Periodic Fever Syndromes to get together for the weekend. This journal ...

Sarah and FMF

rybrans07
  • By rybrans07 · Posted November 14, 2008
  • 2 replies
  • My daughter Sarah is a patient at NIH as well as Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. After 2 long years of sickness she was finally diagnosed with FMF in April 2006 by the Doctors at CHOP (Children's ...

Adventure Inn: Baltimore Inner Harbor and The Maryland Science Center

BKuz
  • By BKuz · Posted November 10, 2008
  • 0 replies
  • Join us this Friday Nov. 14th at 3:30 pm on an exciting field trip to The Maryland Science Center in Baltimore's beautiful Inner Harbor Space is limited so please sign up at the welcome desk ASAP! Looking ...

Educate INN November- Baltimore, science, and flexible one-on-one tutoring

BKuz
  • By BKuz · Posted October 28, 2008
  • 0 replies
  • November is going to be a month in Educate INN you don't want to miss! Please check out the fun schedule below and email me at kuzmab@mail.nih.gov if you would like a tutor to give one of your children ...

Article about the Authors visiting The Inn

BKuz
  • By BKuz · Posted October 14, 2008
  • 0 replies
  • This is a wonderful story about the authors who will be at The Inn Monday to speak about "It's Good to Know a Miracle: Dani's Story." Parents Pen a 'Survival Guide' to Leukemia http://www.washingtonpost.com ...

Meet the Author Event Monday Oct. 20th

BKuz
  • By BKuz · Posted October 14, 2008
  • 0 replies
  • Please join us for a Meet th Monday October 20th at 5:00pm Meet the Authors of the book “It’s Good to Know a Miracle: Dani’s Story”. This story is a journal of one family’s struggle with leukemia, written ...

Educate INN October

BKuz
  • By BKuz · Posted October 6, 2008
  • 0 replies
  • Learn INN: Tuesday study halls with snacks! during parent reception by the bistro 4:30- 5:30 pm **on Tuesday Oct 14th and 28th Learn INN will be from 5:30- 6:30 pm** Explore INN: Oct 16th and 18th 7:00 ...

Kicking off the New School Year at The Inn!

BKuz
  • By BKuz · Posted September 9, 2008
  • 0 replies
  • Educate Inn is very excited to be kicking off the new school year!!! Over the past few months the classroom activities (Explore Inn), field trips (Adventure Inn), tutoring, and homework helper/ study ...

Happy Grandparents Day

poetindisstress
  • By poetindisstress · Posted September 7, 2008
  • 3 replies
  • To all of those who know how special it is to be a grandparent, this is your day! Enjoy, Laugh, cry happy tears, just know how much your loved an appreciated, to have the privlage to be called Grandparents ...

Article about Juice an Medication

poetindisstress
  • By poetindisstress · Posted September 4, 2008
  • 5 replies
  • TUESDAY, Aug. 19 (HealthDay News) -- Grapefruit juice, long known to boost the absorption of certain medications, isn't the only juice that doesn't mix well with drugs, according to the Canadian researcher ...

Privacy and control

Brian
  • By Brian · Posted August 27, 2008
  • 48 replies
  • At Inspire, we think about privacy all the time. Virtually every web site has a privacy policy; you can read ours here: http://www.inspire.com/about/privacy/. But simply following the letter of a privacy ...

Its been a while since I last posted!

CanadaNuse
  • By CanadaNuse · Posted August 21, 2008
  • 2 replies
  • There has been alot going on, since our last post, and honestly I don't know where to start. We had over TEN doctor visits and still not closer to anything. But we keep on getting more clinical DX for ...

Getting better!

Jordensmom
  • By Jordensmom · Posted August 20, 2008
  • 2 replies
  • Well what a painful journey. But I guess with pain and frustration comes wisdom and discovery. Jorden has been taking Colchicine for 8 months. the first 6 months we did not see much of a change, but there ...

quick up date on our daughter.

CanadaNuse
  • By CanadaNuse · Posted July 17, 2008
  • 1 reply
  • Okay, it's been over five months since we sent our daughter Ash blood to NIH for screening, and all we heard so far is that our daughter Blood only shows one copy of RAI1 gene. Ahhh so what dose that ...

Educate INN July!

BKuz
  • By BKuz · Posted July 14, 2008
  • 0 replies
  • Don't miss this month's exciting new chapter of Education at The Inn! This week's events include a field trip on Monday July 14th and Learn Inn Tuesdays July 15th and 22nd 5:30 pm. Also be sure to be ...

Community Happenings July & August

ManagerofFun
  • By ManagerofFun · Posted July 13, 2008
  • 0 replies
  • Lesole South Africa Tuesday, July 15, 10:15 & 11:30 AM Discovery Theater Performance (for all ages) Lesole Dance Project performs tribal dances of the Zulu homelands: Gumboot, the coal miners' infectious ...

New feature: video!

Brian
  • By Brian · Posted June 28, 2008
  • 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 ...

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