1:43 A few years ago, my daughter and her husband introduced me to the hilarious television specials of the stand up comedian Jim Gaffigan so when I learned that his wife had written a book about her experience living through the removal of a brain tumor, I had to read it. I’m Betty Martin with "Martin’s Must Reads" and the title of that book by Jeannie Gaffigan is When Life Gives You Pears: The Healing Power of Family, Faith, and Funny People. It was In 2017 while Jeannie was in the pediatrician’s office of her five children that she finally took note of unusual symptoms she’d been ignoring for some time. An MRI prescribed by an ENT doctor revealed a pear-sized tumor in her brain.