Carol Lin Reporting
Smarter. Better. Together
Hi, my name is Carol. I've been a network anchor and correspondent for CNN and ABC News. I am now a cancer survivor because I'm the one who lived. When I lost my husband to a rare cancer, I raged against the wind. Why did God and the Universe give us a baby but take her father away? Maybe our story really is about hope, strength, courage. It's time I report on something that goes right to the heart of the matter for cancer families: how life changes, how cancer creates opportunities for us to ask tough questions and demand answers. Isn't that what a journalist is suppose to do? I want to share my journey. I want to hear from you.

I walked happily in to Will's hospital room this morning only to find him looking terrified.


What happened?!


He said a young doctor had come in to his room earlier. When he told her the doctors decided they could operate, she apparently said to him "How can they operate? It's only palliative. The cancer is everywhere. I saw the scans."


She was young. Perhaps 26. Chinese. She there was a certainty in her expression and a blankness in her eyes behind her glasses. Her look screamed "The facts as stated, sir.". I rolled up to her in the hallway and I wanted to bite her head off.


You never take hope away from a cancer patient. Who the hell are YOU? Are you a cancer specialist? No? Oh! Opthomalogy! And that gives you a right to give a patient a death sentence? Are you God? No? Oh! Okay. Then stay the hell away from my husband. You. Do. Not. Speak. To. Him.


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