HILDA
Health Imbalance leukemia diagnosis adventure
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Then, and of course, the elephant emerges in broad and inescapable form from the insides of my ancient, cluttered writing desk, and it captures and sustains my full attention as the walls of my office bulge and groan with the immensity of her presence. The elephant in my room I call “HILDA”: Health Imbalance + Leukemia Diagnosis=Adventure…Yes, I now acknowledge her with great fondness. Hilda and I were best buddies for almost 15 years (except when we weren’t)…I lived with her from at least 1998 until after 2012—and she may have been there and beyond my awareness before that time. She may come visit me again in the future, but as much as we loved each other, neither of us will choose that reunion. Hilda became one of my best friends (some of the time) before she left my life, and she brought Carol Margaret more grief, pain, blame, anger, guilt, sorrow, shame, frustration, and suffering than I could ever imagine knowing before I met her. On the other hand, she brought Maggie so many gifts and “goods”…grace, inspiration, passion, acceptance, joy, peace, gratitude, and especially God… as well as many other glorious and indescribable blessings. All of us as a team taught each other how to heal, love, have fun, survive, let go, surrender, master circumstance, and soar.
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In 1997, Carol Roth was in her late thirties living a hectic, programmed life as wife, mother, real estate agent, volunteer, and tennis player. She believed she was pursuing and experiencing the life of her dreams.
In spring of 1998, Carol was diagnosed with leukemia.
By 2010, after managing her dis-ease for over 12 years, she arrived at an impasse. The leukemia had mutated, transforming into an aggressively growing, chemotherapy-resistant disease, leaving her with only one alternative: a bone marrow transplant.
Over a year after the transplant passed without significant improvement, and Carol and her family faced the potential possibility of hospice care as the next step in her health journey.
Remarkably, today, she is medication-free, cancer-free, and savoring fully the joys of life without a “Health Imbalance, Leukemia Diagnosis Adventure,” a term she references in her book as an elephant named Hilda.
Carol’s healing adventure is an empowering story of transformation, courage, and learning. Discover how Carol embraces her health challenge as the impetus to begin a life-changing spiritual journey; how she creates HILDA , an unusual relationship to her experience; how she and her support team navigate the physical, emotional, spiritual, and mental nuances of living with complications; and how her adventure ultimately leads her to an integration of body, mind, and spirit, uncovering balanced health and the joy filled blessing of a “beginning again” attitude.
True healing can manifest in many different ways. A truth common to all of us, according to Carol's experience, is that when we choose to live in alignment with spiritual guidance, miracles happen. When we live the questions of “What can I learn? How can I love? and What is for the highest good?” anything is possible, and everything always gets better.
About the Author
Carol Roth lives in Carmel, Indiana with her husband of thirty five years. She ardently walks her walk, celebrating any cause that promotes and encourages her life vision for a world where peace and love are intended by and for all creation…except, when she doesn’t. Carol is a lifelong learner, lover, forgiver, and beginner again, and an avid writer about all of it (whatever “it” is).