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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 ...

Share your story via video!

TeamInspire
  • By TeamInspire · Posted June 15, 2009
  • Journal · 7 recommendations
  • Sometimes the most powerful message each of us can share is our personal story -- our own experience. With upcoming healthcare legislation pending, one way we can be advocates is to share these stories ...

"HYPOKALEMIA OR LOW POTASSIUM"

mandyblue
  • By mandyblue · Posted June 2, 2009
  • Journal · 7 recommendations
  • I want to share this research information in "My Journal". This is a very long collection of articles, that explains in great detail, about Hypokalemia or Low Potassium. It is for anyone who needs help ...

ACCEPTANCE

Blkjewelz8960
  • By Blkjewelz8960 · Posted August 14, 2009
  • Journal · 5 recommendations
  • I have several quotes on the wall of my cubicle at work. But I kept looking at this one the other day and felt it must be meant for someone so I am posting it here now so that it can reach who it is intended ...

Moms, you rock!

TeamInspire
  • By TeamInspire · Posted May 1, 2009
  • Journal · 5 recommendations
  • 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 ...

So sick of pain today

deebelle
  • By deebelle · Posted April 2, 2009
  • Journal · 5 recommendations
  • So tired of this pain. I am so miserable today..so sad and angry, all at the same time. It hurts so bad. My pinched nerve in my back really hurting right leg, and groin and hip. Barely tolerable today ...

dave,Kim& The beginning of our journey till now 2 yrs later ,still fighting

Kim_R
  • By Kim_R · Posted March 15, 2009
  • Journal · 5 recommendations
  • What I am doing here is trying to document our families journey with cancer that began right before halloween 2007.My Husband(Dave)was diagnosed with throat cancer at the age of 49.He was stage 4 when ...

LIVING WITH HOSPICE

iva1
  • By iva1 · Posted August 6, 2009
  • Journal · 4 recommendations
  • WE ARE REALLY APPRECIATING "LIFE'S CHANGING JOURNEY' WITH THE WONDERFUL HELP of North East Florida Community Hospice in Jacksonville. I thught I was familiar with Hospice from the beginning almost 30 ...

Guestbooks are now live!

TeamInspire
  • By TeamInspire · Posted May 26, 2009
  • Journal · 4 recommendations
  • Hello everyone, Last week we mentioned that we'd be adding guestbooks to Inspire in the near future, and they are now live! We're very excited about this feature and hope you enjoy it. To check out your ...

Why do so many physicians offer such poor patient care?

enlightened
  • By enlightened · Posted February 18, 2009
  • Discussion in General health · 4 recommendations
  • This is my first post. I looked online to find a site where I could express my concerns and hopefully, some good information that will help other people with what appears to be a universal problem these ...

To: Pain From: Me

Nina372
  • By Nina372 · Posted November 2, 2009
  • Journal · 3 recommendations
  • To: Pain From: Me Well hello pain, you might not want to hear this but you have out-stayed your welcome here in my body. You are the most annoying, agitating, distracting, way to needy, company that I ...

Pain tx options during post-op/ meds in gen.

janetbd
  • By janetbd · Posted September 5, 2009
  • Journal · 3 recommendations
  • Recently had a family member have back surgery (for the third time) and during her post -op time she immediately was in so much pain. She tried to get by on what she was told had been ordered by MD. The ...

9 AUGUST IS MY BIRTHDAY

Blkjewelz8960
  • By Blkjewelz8960 · Posted August 9, 2009
  • Journal · 3 recommendations
  • Today is my birthday and I truly want to THANK GOD for allowing me to see my 49th birthday. I want to thank Him for the peace and joy He has bestowed upon me. And I definitely want to thank Him for placing ...

Billy's Disease is so rare Dr.'s are baffled after 12 months in Hospital.

VP4BILLY
  • By VP4BILLY · Posted January 17, 2009
  • Journal · 3 recommendations
  • My son-in-law Billy has been in the hospital 12 months as of 1-6-09. Billy was a healthy 28 year old male at the time he became ill. He has 2 daughters a 3 y.o. and a 5 y.o He has a b-cell inmmunodeficiency ...

Chiari Malformation

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SELF PRESERVATION

Blkjewelz8960
  • By Blkjewelz8960 · Posted August 18, 2009
  • Journal · 2 recommendations
  • This is another saying that is on my cubicle wall: The single relationship that is truly central in your life is the relationship you have with yourself.. It is rewarding to find someone you like, but ...

Chronic pain/ neuropathy

janetbd
  • By janetbd · Posted June 27, 2009
  • Journal · 2 recommendations
  • Unless you are experiencing this, you can NOT understand or comprehend the severity and the debilitation involved. I tire of people talking about "people on all those big-time narcotics" as tho we are ...

i think im losing my hair

kimikiwi1987
  • By kimikiwi1987 · Posted June 21, 2009
  • Journal · 2 recommendations
  • okay ive been on cyclosporine for like 3 wks now and i think im starting to lose my hair, its like one bad side effect after another.....when is this missory going to end....idk but i am glad im getting ...

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