If You Do Nothing, You'll Die: One Wife's Story of Love, Brain Surgery and The Heartbreaking Aftermath

Can you really forget what you did five minutes ago? Can a massive brain tumor turn a successful corporate executive into a man-child incapable of holding any kind of job? What kind of power does the brain have over who you are and what you do? What should a wife and mother do when her husband’s violent, psychotic brain episodes threaten to destroy her young family? No one has faced the difficult answers to these questions with more determination, grit, and love than Wendy Posey, whose husband Eric lost his memory and then his life five years after brain surgery for a massive tumor. Through Eric’s continued deterioration, Posey leaned on her extraordinary sense of humor time and again to deal with her mother’s death, her children’s bewilderment, and her own grief.