Christine Lucey died an untimely death at the age of forty: the result of medical negligence. Six years of intense suffering, involving ten major abdominal operations, dramatically diminished her quality of life and left her marriage all but in ruins. Her husband Don tells this harrowing and moving story of misreported smears, misdiagnosis, medical procrastination and surgical bungling to alert young women to be vigilant and not to put blind faith in doctors who can, and do, make catastrophic mistakes.