Carol Lin Reporting

That’s Will and me. We were two educated, motivated, connected members of the national press corps. Between us, we had seven Emmy Awards for breaking news, documentaries, and investigative journalism. Yet when Will was diagnosed with a very rare form of cancer in the fall of 2002, we discovered that the our own experience […]

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There is no tree. No presents for each other. Will is so sick and I am so pregnant that we decided our love was gift enough this year. His sister sent two boxes from Wichita. We used to joke about how she would start combing through the catalogues in October to find things we didn’t […]

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I am trying hard to work as if not pregnant. This is harder than it sounds. Today the producer asked me if I could make it to the “map room” two floors up during the 2 minute commercial break. Rick wanted me to interview one of our Generals while standing on a room size map […]

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The pharmacist sent back the order to the chemo nurse. Apparently the formulation is so toxic, it was beyond a measure of human tolerance. Was the oncology order correct?
Yes it was. Cisplatin is so toxic, its chemical compounds are used to make mustard gas. And the chemo is not even intended to actually kill Will’s […]

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It is not easy to keep this secret at work. My show team does not know. I want a space where I can be cancer free. I want a place where I can go and cancer doesn’t exist. I can focus on someone else’s war. But I can feel the tears well up during the […]

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