Comments for Carol Lin Reporting

Comment on Cancer Support Project by Language_and_Mind

Language_and_Mind — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 02:41:26 +0000

My brother-in-law died Wednesday. Yes, it was cancer. Barely 50, he was young, and young at heart. LF was kind and brilliant, a warm welcoming bear of a man, always ready with a quip and a contagious laugh. He had been coping with Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma and treatments for a number of years, too many years. All of us get to share our lives, but he gave far more than he received. He was a neuroscientist, so his gifts and his sharing were out of the ordinary. With great modesty, and without hesitation, he radiated love of learning and life. It has been a difficult time, especially for his exquisite wife and three magnificent sons, for his mother and father, and his very dear brother. For those who had the marvelous good fortune to know him, his courage and love and laughter fill our hearts today. These are tragic circumstances… yes… but there is much to learn from them, and much to learn about doing battle with grave diseases. I keep thinking of Carol’s powerful video remarks from a few months ago, now linked to this space—we must not let our lives, nor our children’s lives, be defined by tragedy. Yes, tragedy will insert itself, and every which way, into our reality. We won’t get over it, but we will cope. We will not be consumed by tragedy, but we will get through it. Our hearts will fill with courage, as we cherish those who have mattered in our lives. We will share and laugh and love again. Farewell, LF.

Comment on Donate to a Tula Story Project by Louise

Louise — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 23:05:55 +0000

I am sitting at my kitchen table, having just read your journal posts,with tears running down my face. You must be an incredibly strong person to deal with what you have had to face with such strength and grace. I wish that you were still on CNN

Louise

Comment on My Mom and Me on NPR by Dan Chen

Dan Chen — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 07:41:55 +0000

Hi Carol

I was thinking back tonight and wondering whatever happened to Carol Lin on CNN, whom I had watched many a nights when I was living in my humble little apartment on Bush St. in San Francisco.

Did a search and discovered this site. It’s amazing to hear your story and what led you to build this site as I, too, have an ailing mother with cancer and I too have gone through all of the emotional heart-wrenching and questioning and coping that I suppose all of us with afflicted parents do.

I think it’s great that you’ve put together this site, it was something I’ve been thinking of doing myself as well, just never had the gumption to do it I suppose.

I work in the finance world focused on digital media as they call it - all of the social networking, online community sites that you hear about these days in the news. So seeing this site really resonated with me and impressed me. People are indeed using the Internet and this social networking thing for good things, it’s what I hear everyday but only until now I suppose have I really understood it.

I hope you continue to develop this site and the social networking site you’re building for cancer patients and their families. I’ll look forward to visiting it.

With much respect,

Dan

Comment on My Mom, NPR and Hope by Bradley Sumner

Bradley Sumner — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 23:16:29 +0000

I just browsed your site, no more than that.
Keep up your good work and your personal comments. You will touch people in ways that you would never have thought could be the case.
Your parents coming to N.A and building a new life are something that I am sure you are very proud of. In Canada we have that kind of immigration in spades and we are a much better country because so many people left their homeland to start a new one in ours.

Comment on Turning Point-Cracking My Family’s Mysteries by Language_and_Mind

Language_and_Mind — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 13:27:26 +0000

Thank-you so much, Carol, for your poignant portrait of family life on NPR. Your cancer work will always be linked with, as your mom says, your remarkable courage. You’ve got truly massive amounts of it. But two other “c” words are just as prominent in your work: creativity and candor. And both are vividly displayed in those engaging minutes of radio–you artfully transport the listener into some very personal spaces in your world and your mom’s. At the same time, you show with grace and insight how grave diseases invade and transform our families, not just our bodies. Your storytelling is important to me for another reason, too: it captures—uncannily—very many echoes and familiar themes in my own life. You might well have been describing my 82 year-old mom and me! Thank-you again for sharing so much, and for creating in cyberspace an invaluable oasis…. .