title: Can You Feel My Tears: My husband's courage and determination to defy death....and the strength our love gave him to fight.
author: Lauri Merrow
description: A singer, songwriter and poet, Lauri Merrow still maintains her day job as an accounting officer at a small bank outside of Boston. The proud mother of four children, Lauri never dreamed of writing a book until she and her family survived the harrowing ordeal resulting from her husbands battle with a brain aneurysm. The notebooks she filled with questions for doctors about Steves medical treatments eventually became poignant journal entries recounting her familys struggle to emerge from the nightmare of hospital stays and uncertainty. After Steves recovery, Lauri decided to weave her experiences into a memoir in the hopes of comforting and inspiring other families who find themselves in similar situations.
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  Dedication
  
  In May 2011, while I was in the middle of writing The Notorious Lady Anne,
  near tragedy struck my family when my husband suffered a traumatic brain
  injury during a bicycle accident. My writing came to a halt so I could
  dedicate myself to my husband’s recovery.
  
  Five months after his accident, while sitting in the waiting room of
  outpatient therapy, I opened up my laptop and started writing again. Most of
  this book was written while I sat in what I laughingly called “my office” at
  the rehabilitation hospital.
  
  This book is dedicated to all of my husband’s doctors, nurses and therapists.
  Without them, I wouldn’t have my husband back again.
  
  And, of course, to John. There is no one I admire more. Your strength, your
  perseverance, your determination and your willpower astound and humble me. I
  love you.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Contents
  
  [Cover](../Text/Cull_9780345540058_epub_cvi_r1.htm)
  
  [Title Page](index_split_000.html#filepos167)
  
  [Dedication]