Hello friends and family – I wanted to pass this email along to let you know that my Mother is partaking in The 3 Day Breast Cancer Walk in San Diego , after her fight with lymphoma in 96’ she was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2002 and has been in remission ever since. I think she is the strongest women that I know and she will continue to walk to raise money for a cure until she can’t walk anymore and even then it will be hard to stop her. Please read below for more details of Wally Kaplan’s life and if you are interested please donate. Don’t forget to check out her art to at
Wallysart.comwhich was originally inspired during her fight with cancer.
Thanks and much love
Chas
Please forward this to the circle. The correct email address to donate in my name is
www.the3day.com, Donate, San Diego, Enter my name, and click on it to go to my personal web page. Sorry for the confusion! I left out "the" the first time around, Wally Kaplan or click this link
Click to View and Donate Dear family and friends,
This year marks my 4th year as a breast cancer survivor and my 11th year as a lymphoma survivor! I am feeling wonderful, enjoying life, and ready to take on a new challenge. I am one of the lucky ones! This November I’m going to do the Breast Cancer 3-Day Walk with my niece Stephi who is celebrating her 10th year as a survivor. We are fifteen or so years apart in age and I’m hoping to take advantage of all her energy to do the full 60 miles and sleep in a tent in a sleeping bag. And yes, I am sane. It’s time for me to pay back and raise money to help others get educated about this disease and to enable the women fighting breast cancer to get through all of the treatments successfully. I am dedicating this walk to my niece Stephi and to my friend, Faith Price Kash, who lost her battle with breast cancer.
I’ve started to train and am very glad that it’s summer and not the middle of winter. I am again relearning the streets of Cleveland and finding out exactly how far 5, 10, and 15 miles are from my home. We are participating in the San Diego 3-Day Walk so I will be walking far away from home, but hopefully you’ll be there in spirit to cheer me on. Who amongst us hasn’t been affected by breast cancer whether from personal experience or watching a friend or loved one cope with this lousy disease? I have pledged to raise $3,000 dollars and simply put, I am asking for your help.
85% of the net proceeds raised from the Breast Cancer 3-Day will benefit the Susan G. Koman Breast Cancer Foundation which provides support for research and community outreach. 15% of the net proceeds raised will benefit the National Philanthropic Trust Breast Cancer Fund, a special field of interest fund that will provide support for research, treatment, education and prevention.
I thank you in advance for your donations and please know that it is greatly appreciated. Your donation is, of course, tax deductible.
If you would like to donate by credit card online, you can go to www.the3day.org , click on Donate, click on San Diego Nov.9-11, enter my name, click on it to go to my web page and follow the instructions.
Thank you for your support and I’d appreciate any good words you can put in with the weatherman for good training weather!
Fondly,
Wally
