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What - Inspire is a place where you can connect with people who share your health concerns and find information and advice in groups sponsored by organizations you know and trust.
Why - As a member you can use Inspire to let friends and family know how you're doing, contact others who share your health concerns, receive personalized updates and information about participating in surveys and clinical trials, and more.
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Guestbooks - An exciting addition to Inspire
- 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!
- 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
- 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 ...
Uh Oh I am really Dying Soon
- By JudyV · Posted September 28, 2009
- Journal · 8 recommendations
- Every now and then it hits. It hit tonight, big time. I wanted to call someone, but who do you call to say something like that? Who would understand how this realization can just suddenly flood over me ...
Lost your health insurance? Got Breast Cancer? Read this!
- By Pam-Pam · Posted November 8, 2009
- Journal · 6 recommendations
- This is my story: I had lost my insurance when our business collapsed. We had spent all our savings trying to keep the business afloat. We had assets, our home was paid for, etc, so we didn't qualify ...
Dancing on the abyss
- By yesshecan · Posted November 2, 2009
- Journal · 6 recommendations
- Silent home. Cat sleeps. Dog sleeps. Cancer sleeps. PET scan came back with NED. Yet I am aware, so keenly aware that cancer can sleep and hide and edge forward when it choses. I dance on the abyss. Stare ...
Patience
- By Ovacom06 · Posted October 26, 2009
- Journal · 4 recommendations
- While going through my cancer battle I came to the realization that there are three types of people who battle cancer: 1. The person who throws up his or her hands and gives up. 2. The person who digs ...
- A Life Chaning Story - The Wooden Bowl
- By Shelter · Posted April 9, 2009
- Journal · 3 recommendations
- The Wooden Bowl I guarantee you will remember the tale of the Wooden Bowl tomorrow, a week from now, a month from now, a year from now. A frail old man went to live with his son, daughter-in-law, and ...
A Lazy Susan for your side table or nightstand
- By JudyV · Posted November 13, 2009
- Journal · 2 recommendations
- I was telling someone about this little wonder, and decided to share it more widely by making a journal entry out of it. I recently recited what I keep on the table by my "seat" in the den, the place ...
"Life Changes and We Change To Adjust To It"
- By Ciboney1 · Posted November 7, 2009
- Journal · 2 recommendations
- I have been missing from here for a while with not much to say; because of some issues here on the forum and because I have had some news I didn't want to hear ( as I know many of you have had the same ...
Facing Pancreatic Cancer
- By ESKCSG · Posted November 16, 2009
- Journal · 1 recommendation
- Prominent oncologist and fearless pancreatic cancer patient offer inspiration in recognition of pancreatic cancer awareness month. Until the recent spike of high-profile pancreatic cancer cases among ...
Is It Real? Can it be?
- By JudyV · Posted November 8, 2009
- Journal · 1 recommendation
- This strange life I am living now ... is it real? Who could have imagined this. I am 66. All my young years, thinking of my senior years would have put me on a cruise ship, living in a condo in Florida ...
I walked for breast and lung cancer today
- By teacherN · Posted November 1, 2009
- Journal · 1 recommendation
- Hi all, As a lung and breast cancer "survivor," today I donned my Komen survivor pink shirt and walked with three friends----with a tag on my back announcing I was also walking for lung cancer! Next year ...
tiny progression.....stable?
- By curlee · Posted October 31, 2009
- Journal · 1 recommendation
- had my lung scan and onc said stable. my largest tumor went from 1.9 to 2.1. is this stable? no mention of other tumors. will question further. am on xeloda for 3 months. i week on 1 week off 5 pills ...
EARLY Act
- By GregDennis · Posted October 20, 2009
- Discussion in Breast cancer · 1 recommendation
- The EARLY Act would provide federal funding to educate doctors and young women (those 45 and under) about breast health and breast cancer. The bill is sponsored by Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, herself ...
My Journey of Hope - A Simple Test Changed My Life
- By Pat-M · Posted April 29, 2009
- Journal · 1 recommendation
- My name is Pat. One thing I've discovered about cancer is, if you can survive it, it can change your life for the better. I've learned first hand the lessons of faith and hope. This is my story... Last ...
