This is a blog I put on my myspace page and I felt it needed to be
sent out to the newsletter as well so everyone can know how they can
help Rollin either financially or spiritually in his hour of need.

I don't put a whole lot on this myspace page as I just don't spend
much time on myspace at all anymore. However, this is definitely
worth the time for me. Since the vast majority of the people I have
on my friends list on this page have nothing to do with IWA and
wrestling, I will have to give you a back story so you know what I'm
talking about.

One of the first wrestlers that I worked with and thus became friends
with was a guy named Roland. He wrestles as Rollin' Hard. Anyway,
several years ago he was diagnosed with colon cancer. He fought it
into remission and had a lot of support from fans, friends and
family. He borrowed from the Lance Armstrong Live Strong campaign
and created his own motto...LIVE HARD...BEATING CANCER TILL IT'S
BLACK & BLUE. That is the tshirt that I mention in my writeup
later. Moving along, the cancer came back and spread into more
places in his body. Doctors gave him 12 - 24 months to live.

He sought more medical advice and was given an option to undergo a
radical surgery that would try to remove as much of the spreading
cancer cells as possible. He was told that the surgery could prolong
his life by 6 years (and thus hopefully allowing enough time for
something else to possibly be discovered by then) or it could take 6
months off his life due to the wear and tear on his body.

Roland decided that it was worth the risk to try and prolong his life
for his 2 children and his wife and he underwent the surgery last
week. They removed his spleen, gall bladder and some of his pancreas.

Roland is currently struggling to recover from this surgery and was
put on life support machines to assist with his breathing the other
night. He has fought it with everything that he has and if all goes
well, he might get off the ventilator soon if he doesn't regress.

Now that I have given you the backstory, I will now tell you about my
attempt to help this dear friend and his family but also help me in
the meantime. I'm not in the best shape of my life and I can't seem
to find the motivation to work out and get into shape. If you
continue reading, I think I have found a way to gain that motivation.

Today, I signed up for the Chicago Distance Classic with Stacy. She
loves doing the half marathons and has completed 3 of them. She's
been trying to get me to do one with her and well the thought of
walking 13.1 miles in 4 hours just never seemed like something that I
would want to do...until now.

Usually these events are done by people that are fundraising for
cancer or other charities that are near and dear to their hearts. As
some of you know, Stacy has leukemia that is in remission and that is
why she started doing these half marathons in order to raise money
for research in that field.

We have decided that we will walk this half marathon (I've gone on
several 8 mile walks with her but never 13.1) while wearing Live Hard
tshirts. However, I need extra motivation to make sure that I can
make it the extra 5 miles and so I'm going to ask for friends that
want to help Rollin and his family out to also help me out by giving
me the extra motivation needed to finish this walk.

If you want to help Rollin and can afford to do so, you can send a
donation too me by going to www.paypal.com and sending it to
iwafannin73@...

All the money donated to the paypal account, I will then give to
Rollin and his family to help with their expenses.

The race is on Sunday August 10th in Chicago along the lakefront.

You can go to http://www.chicagodistanceclassic.com/index.htm for
more information on the race and if you want to pay the entry fee,
you can enter and walk in your Live Hard shirts with us. If you don't
already have a Live Hard shirt but would like to walk in the event
wearing one, we will try to have them at the Kings of the Crimson
Mask show (August 2nd in Joliet) for you to purchase.

Again, if you would like to help out Rollin, you can send a paypal
donation to iwafannin73@... and I will pass along all the
donations to Rollin and his family.

Thank you.
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You can also partake in the current IWA Mid-South DVD sale.

From 9:00pm tonight (July 28th) until 9:00pm Wednesday night (July
30th), all single night DVD's will be $15.00 and double night DVD's
will be $30. Whatever we make in the 48 hour period will be split and
half of the money will go to Rollin's family. Send emails to Patti
for any further questions and shipping charges.

Also, for those of you who are going to ask, yes 2008 King of the
Death Matches and Queen of the Death Matches will be available with
this sale as well.
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Here is one last way in which you can help Rollin and his family
financially.

We are going to hold an event in Sellersburg, Indiana on Sunday
afternoon at 3 pm called "For The Love of Rollin" and all tickets
will be $15 and all money raised from ticket sales will go to Rollin
and his family.

Even if you can't attend this show, you can still buy a "ticket" for
the event by going to www.paypal.com and sending the payment for that
ticket to rottenwife@... in order to show your support for Rollin.
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Finally, I know that not everyone can help out financially. That is
perfectly understandable.

You can still help out Rollin spiritually though and be just as
helpful.

Please keep Rollin and his family in your thoughts and prayers and
well wishes.

We would like to thank everyone that has helped out so far with
donations and well wishes. Rollin's wife reads him all the posts
from our board that fans have left for him and it makes him tear up
in joy to know how many people love him and want to help him as he
struggles to keep Living Hard.

Good day.