The day Pat Powers Rothacker learned she had less than a year to live unless she had a liver transplant was one that changed her and her family"s lives forever. In her memoir A Smile Never Hurts: One Woman s Story, Rothacker takes readers on an extraordinary medical journey that documents her life-saving liver transplant surgery. She chronicles her long wait, surgery and recovery from her own point of view and those around her, peppering her tale with a healthy dose of humor and revealing the power of a positive attitude.