Dear Kyle (and family),

I just saw some videos of you on YouTube, and on Ellen. You are an amazing boy! It makes me so happy to see you doing so well! You remind me so much of my son Mack. Mack just turned 7, and he loves golf too. He started playing after I had bought Mario Golf for his GameBoy. Just like you, all he wants to do is play golf!

Just like you, Mack has something that he is working to overcome. He has a significant language disorder, which makes it hard for him to understand and follow directions. He also has a hard time speaking sentences correctly. He is really good at math, reading, art and everything else, but has trouble understanding speech. He needs a lot of extra help. It’s like a form of deafness, but it’s inside his brain and not his ears. He is also on a special diet because he has some food allergies. Sometimes this makes Mack sad because he says his “brain is broken”, but playing golf makes him feel good, and he is really good at it!

I saw that you are always playing golf in your yard. Mack does too! He comes home off of the school bus and starts practicing right away and plays all the way until dinner time. We are hoping to send him to golf camp for a week later this month. It’s funny because Mack’s dad and I don’t play golf, just like your parents when you started. Now we are trying to learn.

I think it’s great that you are trying to help other kids with retinoblastoma. You are amazing (not to mention very handsome!) I wonder if maybe Mack can do something someday to help kids with language disabilities. I know he was born to make a difference somehow, just like you.

Keep up the good work,
Christine Hanisco

This message is for Ellen and Kyle. It would be almost impossible for me to overstate how grateful my family is for Kyle having appeared on the Ellen show.

Seven weeks ago my wife and I were downloading from our camera some pictures of our 10-month-old daughter Talia. In a few of the pictures we noticed a white speck in her eye but didn't pay much attention to it. We emailed some photos to our parents and later that day my mother-in-law called us to tell us that we should have Talia's eye examined by a doctor. Her ONLY basis for this was that she had seen Kyle on the Ellen show and that his retinoblastoma was discovered in the same manner. Sure enough, and unfortunately, we went to the hospital and it was confirmed that Talia was suffering from retinoblastoma as well. Talia had her eye removed three days later.

My wife and I had absolutely no idea that Talia had anything wrong with her eye. Had my mother-in-law not seen that episode of Ellen, it may have gone undiscovered and I can't bear to think of what could have happened.

Please accept our sincere gratitude for being vocal about retinoblastoma and, quite possibly, saving the life of our little girl.

I totally disagree with Kay. I have seen you make a point of dancing with people in wheelchairs. If you missed one, I am certain it was not intentional. Due to cancer, my husband is now in a wheelchair for going out, he cannot stand or walk long. The Disability Act has a long way to go. Until you walk in someone's shoes, you do not understand what they go through. There are so many things not available to wheelchairs, it is really not fair. We ate at a restaurant that had several handicapped parking spaces outside, but once you entered there were steps in every direction to a table, a person in a wheelchair could not have gotten to a table to eat.

Keep up the wonderful work you do for the little people of our nation, the ones who simply are here and doing their best to live their lives. They are not trying to be heros, simply trying to survive.

ellen, the handsome lil Kyle, may his dreams become BIG for him to his days of golfing. Very giving of you to give him his new golf cart, all about him. Good luck to you, Kyle. Enjoy all your days ahead. brenda

I was looking forward to seeing the show with Kathy Griffin, only to find out that it seemingly had been pre-empted in New York by the 9-11 ceremony. I am wondering if it was shown elsewhere in the country, or if it was shown at another time in the NYC area. Or, if it will be repeated on a cable network in the near future.

Ellen, I was watching you today and was very upset with you. You enjoy dancing around so much and dancing with the audience, but yet you pay no attention to the less fortunate that come to see you. There was a lady in a wheelchair in the front row today. You did not even acknowledge that lady, but you would dance with the people. This is not the first time this has happened. You do so many good things for people and I have sang your praises many times, but I am starting to doubt your sincerity. I have thought so much of you, please don't do what so many host have and are doing. I have quit watching many talk shows because of the way they think they are! Please take this to heart Ellen. It makes my heart hurt to see this, because I am disabled as those people are. Thank you Ellen for your time. I hope you really read this.

IIIIIIIIIIIII.... WOW.