Alright! First comment.
Always glad to see people helping out for breast or any kind of cancer. Keep it up!

Hey Wil, this is great. And I'd love to sponsor you. Right now, however, my aunt ( who raised me ) is suffering badly from diabetes and needs a kidney transplant. We've just recently found out that I am her blood type and I'm going in for further testing to see if I'm a match. If I match, then off to Chicago I go, leaving my small daughters with their Daddy to donate to help save her life. All my financial resources are going to that means. Maybe someday, they'll find a cure for diabetes as well.

Vikki

Cool! Check out www.aidswalk.com also, coming to a town near you!

Way to go, Vikki!!

Here's hoping that everything is okay in your family. Please keep us informed.

Very cool.
Way to go, Wil. I hope you reach that $5000.

I visit www.breastcancersite.com everyday. I hope my 'click' helps some woman (who wouldn't ordinarily be able to) get a mammogram. Early detection is the best chance we have to beat this terrible, silent disease. May we please find a cure, and Vikki, I hope your a perfect match, that you can help your Aunt, and everything goes great for you.

I couldn't give much (us just-post university students aren't exactly comfy in the financial department), but as someone whose close friend went in for a lumpectomy at 23, I wanted to do something. Thanks, Wil.

I feel for your friend and her family. My aunt undergoes treatment for her second round of Breast Cancer this next week. The question for me became, "Why do we have such historically high levels of cancer, diabetes, and MS in our society?" Each of these diseases increase their numbers by hundreds of thousands to millions each year. What do we do now that causes these diseases?

As you know, 10,000 years ago we embarked on a new way of living. A way of living where we took all of the land and food for ourselves and left nothing for any other species. Two major dietary changes went along with that change of lifestyle. The consumption of large amounts of carbohydrates and the consumption of milk. Where these foods have come, these diseases come. As we increase our consumption of sugars, we increase the amount of MS , Diabetes, Cancer, and the overweight illness. The process for this involves chronically high levels of insulin that the human body does not seem evolutionarily capible of handling. Moreover, combining that problem with problems caused by milk proteins and we set the stage for everyone getting either heart disease or cancer by the time they reach 60 years of age.

If you feel inclined to help your friends and the world, I will provide some research links below. Please consider the fact that diet and health intertwine in ways that the modern medical and modern dietary community only begin to understand.

http://www.geocities.com/tbkfitness/diet.html
http://www.paleodiet.com/lindeberg/
http://www.sju.edu/~tmoody/eating.htm
http://www.cast.uark.edu/local/icaes/

I have many more links if needed. Please feel free to contact me (anyone). I have no agenda to push but I feel concerned with the relative lack of exposure of these ideas.

Thank you for your time,

Jt

Wil and Vikki,
You guys give me renewed faith in humanity. I'll try to give what I can.

Very thoughtful and generous of you do to that. I'll try and donate something, even though I am just a lowly teenager with barely any money. I'll get my parents to donate as well!

And I love that thought. Very inspiring.

My mother found a lump a couple of days ago and meets with a surgeon next week to determine what it is. No matter what the outcome, it has opened my eyes to the importance of self-evaluation and yearly appointments with my doctor. Good luck, Wil.

Vikki and Wil, you two totally rawk!

Vikki, I hope all goes well with the testing. I know it's going to be hard on you, but you're doing a wonderful thing.

And thanks Wil, for posting about the walkathon. My mother in law died recently from breast cancer, and so did my dad's cousin, who was only 40. It's hard to believe how many of us are affected by it in some way.....

I had a favorite Aunt who suffered and died from cancer, and a good friend who had breast cancer, a
mastectomy, and thank God, she survived. Eleven years and counting! I'll be sure to help out in the cancer fight. On a completely different topic,
I just got an invitation to the Chrysler Million Dollar Film Festival v.i.p. screening of The Bourne Identity and the five winning films. Wasn't our own Wil in a film that made the finals? Any way, it's on Wednesday July, 10
in NYC. Any possibility we'll see Matt Damon and Wil Wheaton there?

Alexa, I just saw your post. I hope the lump isn't malignant. And you're so right about self-checks- they can be awkward but they're necessary.

That is awesome that you are doing that Wil. I do the Relay for Cancer every year where I live and it means so much to the survivors and to those families that have lost so many loved ones.

Thank you Wil, for supporting those with this awful disease.

And remember guys don't for get your monthly checks, male testicular cancer is just as likely to occur. It's not just women who get cancer!

well done mate!
I'll be donating as soon as my new debit card arives (got drunk post-england win and lost my wallet)
Fingers crossed for Friday! Whoever wins in the EnglandvBrazil match is going to win the cup.
Again, well done. You're my hero.

I really want to Donate!! but i cant, cos i am in the UK. We have a lot of Cancer in our Family, My Gran Died from it, my Grandad Died from it, my nanny has , aswell as my gradfather. If there is a way i can donate over seas ... without a creditcard (not old enough) PLEASE LET ME KNOW!!

Hey!

So I've sent out an e-mail to everyone in my address book with the link to your walkathon web page -- my father's wife is a survivor and my wife and I will be dedicating our donation to her and I pray those that I sent a message to will do the same...

Blessings, Wil -- WALK THE WALK dude!

Be good,
-sam

Chris, don't sweat it -- sometimes the world conspires against our best intentions. What you could do, if it will make you feel better, is find the UK organisation devoted to working on breast cancer and donate to them what you would have donated to Wil's walk.

Wil, walk with pride. You're doing a good thing.

Thanks for the advice ... i just may go and do that. Good luck will.

Good for you Wheatons.
I hope you get into a good walking program to build up to it, starting now. 32k a day is a lot, but doable.

wil, you are great.

vikki, i wish the absolute best for you and your aunt. strangers usually don't and often shouldn't matter to you, but take heart in the fact that many of us who read what you wrote admire your loyalty and dedication. your husband and small daughters are blessed.

Jt, good luck to your aunt, and good luck with your research. wil, you should add a forum to the message boards for cancer support and discussion.

alexa, i can't imagine what you feel. if my mother found a lump i would worry incessantly. i don't know what to say. though i am a stranger, you have my complete support.

sorry, all, this touches a delicate nerve with me. i hope the best for everyone.

Wil, My Mothers mother, Grand Ma Ida died of breast cancer in 1965, I was 3 at the time and can not remember her at all, my step grandmother Sal, also died in 1973.. from breast cancer.. it's something my mother has worried about since..

I would love to join you in your walk, but with my
hip, I would never be able to make 2 miles, let alone 60..

I, along with many people look forward to the day where in Revelation 21:4 we read;

"And he will wipe out every tear from their eyes, and death will be no more, neither will mourning nor outcry nor pain be any more. The former things have passed away."

as for a cure, it's possible, Genesis 11:6 says;
"Why, now there is nothing that they may have in mind to do that will be unattainable for them."

buy some new walking shoes, 60 miles and those
feet will be barking afterwards..

I'll be praying for you and yours...

Wil and Anne,

Thanks for bringing attention to this major health problem. Two years ago, my Mom passed away from cancer, probably stemming from the breast cancer she suffered a few years earlier. I hope a LOT of money is raised so no one else must suffer radiation, chemotherapy, maesectomies, or the loss of a loved one. You have my gratitude, my best wishes, and my donation.

This is why I like you Will, you are a weird yet
regular guy. I hope the walk makes tons of money.
I recently contributed to a Cancer walk and an
MS walk to I am tapped out.

I will check my funds to see if I have anything
extra to give.

Yahoo, Wil and Anne! I had planned to do the Avon 3-day here in Seattle this summer, but a bunch of family events surfaced (my step-daughter is having a baby and my step-son is getting married). I didn't think I could devote the necessary time to my training, so I had to bail. I'll happily sponsor you in your efforts instead. Good luck and thanks from all of us with breasts and with cancer survivors in our lives. :-)

Wil, YOU ROCK!!!

I did the Avon Breast Cancer 3-Day from Baltimore to Washington, DC, this May, and it was the most awful and wonderful experience of my life. (If you have any questions, feel free to e-mail me...I'm planning on crewing one walk next year and walking at least one.)

TRAIN, TRAIN, TRAIN. I never thought I had the free time to train, but I found it when I realized what a huge committment it was. And I'm glad I did. I did two big back-to-back training walks, 20/10 and 20/13, and it made a difference. I finished all three days (though there's no shame in taking the sweep van).

I met some wonderful people while training and at the walk. Friends for life.

Visit the Rememberance Tent. I wrote a message for my mom, who lost the battle against breast cancer August 5, 2001.

And I hugged many survivors.

I've donated, in honor of my first fencing teacher who died of cancer two years ago. Salute to the maestra, and all those fighters who continue to press on.

What a great thing! The one here in San Diego is coming up, if I remember correctly. I'm glad to help out and here's hoping you blow away your $5000 goal!

my younger brother and i participated in the relay for life again this year in our hometown...and during the walk he told me he was doing it for our grandma,...who died of cancer...he was born 4 years after her death, so he never knew her...i had to fight back my tears...because i had the chance to know her...and i knew the wonderful person he missed because of cancer...walk on wil...keep the faith! d. burr

Wil, thanks for bringing light to this. I put a few bits in your donation jar. Although I mistakenly thought I was first. Too early in the morning to read dates on posts. Good luck!!

-gil

If in any way i preserve the number and quality of breasts in this world, i will be more than happy to help.

i notice you did get donation (i gave a bit too) but the little meter still says $0.00.

PS if you go click refresh really fast a zillion times, it makes it seem like he gets more page hits! HELP FEIGN WIL'S POPULARITY! w00tw00t

PS: cough up some dough too!

If in any way i preserve the number and quality of breasts in this world, i will be more than happy to help.

i notice you did get donations (i gave a bit too) but the little meter still says $0.00.

PS if you go click refresh really fast a zillion times, it makes it seem like he gets more page hits! HELP FEIGN WIL'S POPULARITY! w00tw00t

PS: cough up some dough too!

$20 coming your way.

I noticed the $0 meter thing too, although if you look, it looks like the "bar" has moved up from the bottom.

Way to go wil, i hope you blow the top off your donations.

Okay, so I see you are walking the Avon Walk. A good friend of mine (Kristen) just did this in Michigan a few weeks ago. She might be a good reference for you as far as the training you will want to complete beforehand. Also, you might want to up your goal. Without the aid of being famous or infamous (you pick), she managed almost $3k.

Best of luck, and a very worthwhile cause.

Kristen's Blog:

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~kgibbs/weblog/blogger.html

Best Wishes for your walking:

Jarrod (First-Time poster)

I use to complain about turning 30.

Then one of my friends was diagnosed with Breast Cancer while she was pregnant. They tried everything, but all the chemo, experimental drugs, and prayers in the world didn't seem to work.

She died just a month or so shy of her 30th birthday leaving her baby girl & husband behind.

I'm glad you're walking to help friends, wives, daughers, and mothers in their fight to beat breast cancer.

Being naturally sarcastic I sometimes flinch as I learn the cliche, tired phrases about making the most of our time on Earth are true. Time is limited & we will be remembered for the good things we do. Not the cars we drive, the clothes we buy, the people we put down, or the money we make.

Thank you Wil, and the rest of you.
For those of us who have survivors in the family, we are grateful for every bit of research done.
People are wonderful. :)
Even though my mother has survived 4 years since her last chemo treatment, she still feels the effects. Maybe one day, we'll find a cure and there won't be as many side effects. But she's alive...thankfully.
Thanks again.

My grandmother was diagnosed w/ breast cancer the day after she found out my mom was pregnant w/ me -her 1st grandchild. She was so afraid she might die w/o knowing me. 26 years later & 6 more grandchildren later, she's doing fine. I love my grandmother & my life would not be the same w/o her. She's a great source of strength. The computer I'm on right now won't let me get to the donation page. But as soon as I get home, I will donate. Any little bit that helps others survive as my grandmother did is a great thing!

Hey Wil,

My father died of cancer two years ago, and my girlfriend is in remission, so I'd just like to say thanks. My mom did this walk when it was in the Seattle Area.

I dropped $50 in your bucket, not much, but better'n nothing.

Hope you make your goal, and good luck in the walk.

RX

Wil, if the money you raise goes towards saving even one person from cancer or making any sufferers life a little easier, then It will have been well worth it.

Good for you! And Good Luck!

Great cause ... I gave what I could as well. Good luck with the walk, Wil and keep up the great work all around!

Wil!!

Call the Opie and Anthony Show!

They want people who were on popular shows years ago.

You could quickly promote the walk and your shows.

Plus it would just make this lil' Ohio gal's heart sing for pure joy.

-MKF

I participated in the Washington D.C. 3-Day last year, and it was the most amazing thing I've ever been a part of. I can't even describe all the emotions I felt during those 3 days, and you couldn't possibly understand until you've experienced it yourself. You and Anne are in for a wild, painful ride (er, walk) and a hell of a lot of Porta-potties, but it will be completely worth it. :)

(Just hope that neither of the tent cities you'll be staying is near train tracks. The first night, our tent was less than 50 yards from a *very* active set of tracks, and every train that passed by sounded like it was going to derail and smash us all to bits. Needless to say, we were some very unhappy campers the next morning.)

Good for you Wil. I hope you make all the money that u can.. even more.

Hey-

Glad to see you're trying to help a good cause. As someone who's watched both my mothers (paternal and in-law) face this horrible disease I know how tough it can be. But is this event really the best way... The company which sponsors it bugs me because of how little actually goes to the cause:

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/printout/0,8816,218294,00.html
http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/3135087.htm
http://members.tripod.com/~homeo/wheels4.html
http://www.sfbg.com/News/35/42/42oped.html

I'm especially concerned about: "All the money raised goes to Breast Cancer Research" - is that really true?

Not trying to flame or be a downer - just want to make sure everyone is informed...

I tossed $50 your way in the name of my clan (The Black Operations Division STV:EF). It's not a lot. But every bit helps.

Here's a thought. On June 14th, we were all discussing, sometimes heatedly, our different political views and opinions. 6 days later, here we are. The same people sharing our heartfelt stories about family and loved ones, those who we've lost and those who we've watched go through hell just to stay alive. The same people who defended their positions and opinions so wholeheartedly just 6 days ago are now rallying around each other, offering comfort and showing our support in order to make a difference. I think that says alot about us...and kudos to all of you. Maturity like this is often hard to find.

Vikki

Way cool, Wil. I have wanted to do the AIDS ride, by the same company, for a while now, but relocation, and lack of childcare (not to mention an impending sense of doom when i try to fundraise) have kept me at home. A friend of mine says that it is a very powerful positive experience. Maybe when I'm all growed up...

Break a leg, guy.
sw

Will & Anne - Good luck.
I think it is so cool and touching that you are doing this. I am already donating to a friend doing the walk up in Seattle, but I send my best wishes for training,fundraising and the walk itself.

My mom found a lump about a month ago. It turned out to be malignant. In the month between her self-exams, it went from zero to quarter-sized. There was no pain or other warning--that monthly self-exam probably saved her life, since she wasn't due for a mammogram for several months. She's in chemo right now, but she's been listed in the lowest mortality group, so we're confident she'll recover completely.

Ladies, please learn the proper self-exam method and use it.

Wil,
Congratulations on your decision to make the walk. I've participated in other Pallotta events in the past (DC AIDS Rides) - they're absolutely life-changing. You're doing a good thing. You're a hero. You're going to hear that between now and walk time - you're going to realize it on the walk.

I tried to make a donation in Wil's name but the system seems to be over loaded, I hope Wil checks out the capacity of these sites before he uses them as links. He could do damage linking from his site. This has happend before. He has wrecked sites. I'm know he didn't mean it but you have to be careful. If you know a way that I can give a donation to the fund in Wil's name I would appretiate a link.

Paul

Good for you, Wil - I wish you all the best on your walk. I will try to get on there and donate to the cause, and will tell my friends about it, too.

Oh and I wanted to let Vicki know (the woman whose aunt needs the transplant) that there is a program here in Canada where they do islet transplants (pancreatic) and it is helping diabetics, some of whom have complications, to no longer need to take insulin. They have a web site to offer for those outside of Canada - it is www.IsletService.org. For anyone reading this in Canada, diabetics interested in applying for the program can go to www.med.ualberta.ca/islet. (My sister is applying and I really hope she gets in, before she gets to the need for dialysis.)

Wil, good luck to you and Anne! When I tried to make a donation, I kept getting the wonderful "cannot find server" message. :'-( But I will keep trying! I was a poor college graduate until the presents and cards started coming in, and now I have this lump of money that I'm trying to save, spend on something worthwhile, or at least not blow all at once. This definitely counts as worthwhile, so I'm going to keep reloading that derned page until it takes my money!!!

God bless Wil, Anne, and everyone else who is helping the cause in some way. :-)

Hey Wil,
Yeh Id love to sponser you too.... don't think I can do much on my 8bucks a week from the paper route (only 14 here!) but I'll try!!!
I know how it feels to be effected by cancer, I almost lost my grandfather to prostate and one of my good friends has lukiemea. :(
I've gone on walks like that too, but only for a day! Good luck and I'll do what I can
Lily

way to go Will and Anne

Can we get an update on the donation total? It still reads 0 after a full day.

Wil, I think it's better as;

learn from yesterday,
live for today,
pray for tomorrow. :)

I have just donated $500 dollars to you.

Good luck.

Did you hear the awesome news? A lab near Purdue University in Lafayette, Indiana has found a HUGE breakthrough in cancer treatment. They are dubbing it a cancer CURE!! How awesome is that?! The story was on the news last night, here is the link for my local news station that ran the story.

http://www.wishtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=827193

They found that lab rats' cancer all but disappeared with this new treatment. They are awaiting the FDA to approve testing on humans. They say that this can cure all sorts of different cancers, including several forms of BREAST CANCER!

The big newspaper in the capital (of Indiana) (http://www.indystar.com/article.php?cancer20.html) says that it can cure one third of all the cancers in the world. It's not all of it and they still need to keep the ball rolling with this one, but it's a much needed start.

I've lost many loved ones to cancer, a few more specifically to breast cancer. Thank you, Wil Wheaton (and Mrs. Wheaton,) for doing this. God bless you both!

Hey Wil,

Good luck. I won't be supporting on this one as I have read far too much negative press about the company that puts on these walks to have any hope that my cash would do any good - better to put it towards an organization that I feel might actually make a difference. But kudos for taking a stand, for trying to make a difference, and for inspiring others to do the same.

There ya go Wil. I donated $20US, which will be about $4000 Canadian on my credit card =)

Good Job, and I hope ya get to your $5000

Hi Wil.

I'm from Germany. Do we germans have to expect any resentments from the USA because we beat you at the soccer World cup? Ór will your George double"u" be satisfied with some "harsh" words?

By the way: 1.0 1:0 1:0; 1:0 1:0 1:0; 1:0 1;0 1:0; 1:0 1:0

Wil,

Why does the page say that the current donation total is $0? I know that can't be, since I just donated. Do you know if/when that will can fixed so we can watch your progress toward your $5000 goal?

Wil...get them to fix the donation meter!

Its good for morale...plus makes more sense if
it goes up when a doantion is placed..hitting
referesh does no good.

Kudo's to all that are helping with this.

I don't know how their donation meter works...they say that the meter won't go up until donations are processed, which can take up to three weeks.

I'm working on a quick-and-dirty install of postnuke to be a local update site. Watch for it in about 2 weeks.

Wil,

Thanks to you and Anne for walking. My grandmother is a breast cancer survivor, so this is a cause close to my own heart. Unfortunately, I'm really, really, ridiculously out of shape, so I know I'd never make it in the walk.. so instead, I donated some ca$h for yours. :)

I applaud your willingness to help out, Wil. My wife is currently battling breast cancer. I, as others have mentioned, will not be supporting your venture financially due to issues I have with where the money goes. Look at the financial statements on the organizing corporation's site: historically, 59%-60% of the money raised has actually been given to the cause for which it was raised. I prefer other organizations, whose overhead is smaller, and who pass along 85%-90% of donations collected. At any rate, your willingness to get involved is inspring, and I'll be rooting for you during the walk!