– A Remarkable Family You Won’t Soon Forget! –
Description
On June 10, 2008, Carol Decker walked through the hospital doors a healthy woman with flu-like symptoms and early labor contractions. Three months later, she returned home a blind triple-amputee struggling to bond with a daughter she would never see. Unshattered: Overcoming Tragedy and Choosing a Beautiful Life recounts Carol’s fight for survival against sepsis and its life-shattering complications.
From excruciating skin grafts to learning how to function in daily life without lower legs, a left hand, or her sight, Carol takes us on a personal and raw yet inspiring journey. She travels through darkness of trauma, anxiety, and depression to arrive, literally, at the peak of a mountain with a heart full of gratitude and love.
More than a story of triumph over tragedy, the book offers inspiring life lessons and insights that can help readers to do more than endure unimaginable pain and darkness in their own lives. This book can give them the perspective and strength to pick up the pieces of their own tragedies and choose a life of healing, purpose, and joy-a beautiful life.
Details
- Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆
- Title: Unshattered: Overcoming Tragedy And Choosing A Beautiful Life
- Author: Carol Decker with Stacey L. Nash
- Genre: Biography, Memoir, Growth
- Audience: Adult
- Length: 208 pages
- Publisher: Shadow Mountain; Illustrated edition
- Release Date: 2018
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- Recommended for fans of: Powerful, Inspirational Stories
My Thoughts
This is one of the most inspirational memoirs I’ve ever read. As one reviewer stated, it is sad in places, very sad. And her recovery is tough to read about. But Carol Decker and her husband are amazing people who helped me see life through a cleaner lens. For that reason, I sincerely hope you pick up this book. It can potentially change your life.
This heart-wrenching story takes you on a journey of shock, pain, faith, hope, love, perseverance, and much more. What you will discover is the story of an incredible woman who ended up choosing life and living.
Can you imagine being pregnant, feeling very ill, ending up in the hospital, and then finding yourself fighting for your life? There are an emergency C-section and a serious battle against sepsis. And though she wins her life she loses much of her old self. She is left blind and parts of her limbs have had to be amputated.
This inspirational story inspires all of us to take the higher road when things beyond our control occur.
What Concerned Me
I definitely wanted husband Scott Decker’s thoughts included, but I would have liked them to have been at the back of the book rather than the introduction. It felt like he shared too much in advance.
Okay, I’m a person who rarely reads the book blurbs since I want it all to be a surprise, so this could be a very personal concern.
What I Liked Most
This is one of the most inspirational books I’ve read. Trust me, this woman’s story will inspire you to be a better you. I would suggest you check out her website to see what’s going on with her today.
Rating
I highly recommend it to all.
About the Authors
Carol J. Decker survived sepsis while pregnant with her second daughter, resulting in multiple amputations and complete blindness. She travels across the nation as a motivational speaker, speaking at colleges, universities, churches, and hospitals. She hopes to share by example that anyone can choose a beautiful life and that with an optimistic attitude, the right perspective, and determination anything is possible.
Stacey L. Nash is a happily married mother of four who sleeps too little, sings too loud, and keeps a stash of dark chocolate Hershey’s Kisses in her purse. She works as a freelance writer and specializes in family and parenting issues, but enjoys any writing that lets her do in-depth research. She and her family live in the middle of forty heavily-wooded acres where they split lots of firewood and avoid the local bear.
