AS someone who has been in various hospitals in Clark, King and Whatcom counties over the past twenty years, I read this story of a young woman who died within the past week of Cancer. Liz Rowan passes on
I will not go into a comment on the comment section, that will be for the family, editor, publishing family to discuss. It is not something I feel is my place and would just inflict more pain on the family.
But I wanted to add some perspective as some one who has a debilitating chronic disease, lost body parts and watched older and younger members of my family that have died from this disease. And eventually, I will have more things go wrong in my own, young body.
I feel from my own issues and chronic disease, that at some point I will succumb to the damage of its effects. My family will have their time to grieve and since the local paper knows of me, I probably will also be target of an article by a local reporter.
My hope that the point that I do succumb, there will be a leadership change and possibly a new media system that covers our local community. I have seen what that local newspaper is capable of. Though I am not going to hold this reporter up as some one who has no heart or emotions, I have issue with her bosses and how they continue to use this community as a target practice for their own initiative and desires.
And how it manipulates situations to get what it wants. The whole story coming through the comments section alone is a tragedy in its own right.
I will say that I pray the reporter, the family and people who are closely involved will come to some comfort and resolution at some point. When some thing like this comes along, no one wins, no one.
And I just hope my own family or friends are the subject of it.
