Carol Lin Reporting

My friend Daryn gave me a sage piece of advice the night before I returned to the anchor desk. I was still in shock from losing my husband Will to cancer. I had no idea how I was going to go on the air the next day. Daryn looked me square in the eye and […]

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I have always worked from a plan. That’s part of my personal quirkiness. So here I was, without any idea and I was talking to a neurosurgeon who was telling me he could shift other patients off his surgical calendar and operate on my wife on Wednesday. That’s five days from now. She would be […]

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Ken is many things: entrepreneur, biologist, former Vietnam vet. He is also a man in love. He proposed to his wife on their second date. And now Ken is using his business mind and his husband heart and soul to try to save his wife’s life. Shirley has the most aggressive form of brain cancer: […]

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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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“Friday mornings are suppose to be the end of a hard week. My wife Shirley and I had to go visit our internist because she was experiencing headaches and had a very slight droop on the side of her mouth that would disappear by afternoon. We sat in the examination room together. The doctor asked […]

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