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New feature: video!

Brian
  • By Brian · New reply 12:44 pm
  • Journal · 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 ...

GONE NEVER MEANS FORGOTTEN

Rj
  • By Rj · New reply yesterday at 2:00 am
  • Journal · 13 replies
  • My friend, who was like a brother to me, was diagnosed with renal cell cancer, died yesterday. He was diagnosed last July and went so fast I and his family are stunned. And I know this is just the beginning ...

CANCER PAIN STUDY

Rj
  • By Rj · New reply November 21, 2008
  • Journal · 8 replies
  • I have been accepted for this study and will actually start the drug, sativex or the placebo on friday 11/21/08. the study is still open and conducted in Hagerstown, MD. If your interested you can e-mail ...

Why are we here?

Brian
  • By Brian · New reply November 16, 2008
  • Journal · 124 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 ...

PAIN & TREATMENTS

Rj
  • By Rj · New reply November 5, 2008
  • Journal · 16 replies
  • I've searched through all of my groups, but, haven't found any mention of "HYPERTROPHIC OSTEOARTHROPATHY" Please let me know if you have heard of this diagnoses? The pain is in all of my joints and bones ...

RESENTMENT vs GUILT

Rj
  • By Rj · New reply October 8, 2008
  • Journal · 44 replies
  • I just stopped myself from replying to a post regarding caregiver resentment for cancer patients, and it's acceptance! I feel this is a 'open wound' subject that 'we' should discuss with a broad range ...

FRIENDSHIP- REVISITED

Rj
  • By Rj · New reply October 2, 2008
  • Journal · 10 replies
  • Once again, LC patients tell the truth about 'friends and family's so far 44 more replies and counting to yet another discussion posted about how our so called friends decided to become (fill in the blank ...

Privacy and control

Brian
  • By Brian · New reply September 1, 2008
  • Journal · 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 ...

Welcome!

Brian
  • By Brian · New reply August 31, 2008
  • Journal · 20 replies
  • I am pleased to present Inspire 2.0 -- the result of many months of fun and hard work. We have made numerous improvements to your community, the vast majority of which are ideas that came from you! We ...

Upcoming improvements to the messaging system

Walter
  • By Walter · New reply July 7, 2008
  • Journal · 23 replies
  • Hello everyone. I'm writing to let you know about some long overdue improvements that we'll be making to this site's messaging system later this week. The messages section is the most frequently visited ...

medicaid's replacement..

windtalker
  • By windtalker · Posted July 3, 2008
  • Discussion in Wellness · 0 replies
  • living near cincinnati,and still fighting with social security for my disability for a obvious-documentable-spinal chord injury, as everyone who WAS on medicaid,here in ohio,we were NOT given a choice--we ...

New feature - profile completeness gauge

Tasha
  • By Tasha · New reply June 25, 2008
  • Journal · 4 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 ...

Improvements to the message system are complete

Walter
  • By Walter · New reply June 22, 2008
  • Journal · 14 replies
  • Hello everyone. Just a quick note to let you know that the improvements to the message system that I wrote about previously are complete. You can check them out now. You'll notice that we've grouped your ...

Sometimes we make mistakes

Brian
  • By Brian · New reply May 27, 2008
  • Journal · 35 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 ...

passive / agressive attitude

windtalker
  • By windtalker · New reply April 30, 2008
  • Discussion in Wellness · 2 replies
  • it starts as a subtle glance,caught out of the corner of my eye,progressing to subtle mis-information about the availability of either care or meds..usually dealing with money,and your ability to pay ...

Alcoholic Forever?

Peter
  • By Peter · New reply April 13, 2008
  • Discussion in Rehabilitation · 2 replies
  • Nearly 10 years ago I figured out that I am an alcoholic, and quit drinking. It's been nice, being able to remember what I did last night, not to mention that my general health level improved considerably ...

Changes that you have requested are on the way

Beth
  • By Beth · New reply April 7, 2008
  • Journal · 16 replies
  • Hello everyone. We've been hard at work on many of the great suggestions that you've sent us. This week we've been cooking up some changes to the group home page, and hope to make them public very soon ...

Welcome from TeamInspire!

TeamInspire
  • By TeamInspire · New reply April 7, 2008
  • Journal · 35 replies
  • Hello, old friends and new. Today is a big day for us! We have made numerous improvements to your community, most that were suggestions from you. As you can see the site is very different then before ...

sleep study and sleep apnea

mjfred
  • By mjfred · New reply March 26, 2008
  • Discussion in Sleep disorders · 2 replies
  • Has anyone had any experience with sleep apnea or sleep studies. I'm not worried about the study per se -- but I have never had to have surgery and am afraid to hear that they will want to do some kind ...

Perimenopause/Menopause/Hysterectomy

Susan12
  • By Susan12 · Posted October 25, 2007
  • Discussion in Women's health · 0 replies
  • If perimenopause can last up to 10 years, and menopause can last 5 to 10 years, other than the risk of osteoporosis, why wouldn't a woman choose to have a complete hysterectomy (thereby going directly ...

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The Vital Signs Community connects patients, families, friends and caregivers for support and inspiration. The Vital Signs Community is sponsored by the Dayton Daily News in partnership with Inspire.