SpawnPoint - Where Game Begins

So my step-father went in for his second attempt at a pancreas just about two weeks ago.  His first attempt was pretty bad, he outright rejected it and had to be in the hospital for a few months because of it.  His second attempt seemed all and good for a few days, and we were all so excited to know that he wouldn't be a diabetic anymore.  But he has a very rare clotting disorder where he was clotting off the transplant.  They put him on blood thinners, but because of this disorder even the smallest amount of the drug was causing him to bleed out.  The pancreas became necrotic and had to be removed.  He is no longer a candidate for a pancreas transplant.  There is a plus side to this though, there were considering transplanting some islets from a properly functioning pancreas into his portal vein, but that would be life threatening to him because of the clotting disorder and could cause him to lose his liver.  However, the doctor at John's Hopkins who performed the surgery is taking my step-dad's case to his mentor (who I heard is the leading guy in diabetes related transplants) and discussing how to transplant the islets elsewhere.  This would be a sort of experimental surgery in a way, but it could help.  I'm being hopeful.

Yesterday, March 18, at 4:15 in the morning, my cousin Janisa died in a car accident in Dallastown.  She was driving a friend home (or so it's been said) and she lost control of the vehicle and crashed into a telephone pole and a parked car.  She died on impact.  Investigators said that there were no skid marks on scene and thus she made no attempt at slowing.  She was probably asleep at the wheel.  I'd like to think that Janisa had given up on her drinking and drug use, and I hope that she just fell asleep at such a late hour.  Luckily, either way, her being unconcious meant that she saw nothing coming and there was no way that she felt anything.  
My Aunt (her mother) wants to see her again, for closure, to say good-bye to her.  It's going to take a while though.  
One of the sadest things about the whole situation is how Janisa has three children.  (she's 26)  Her oldest daughter is with her father, and in a good environment (a possitive) but her two younger children are not so lucky.  My family would take them in, but my step father cannot have children around him (under 5 years of age) for quite some time because of his condition at the moment.  So these kids will probably go to their father who has been in and out of jail for the longest time.  I don't feel good about that, especially with Janisa's youngest child being so sick with cystic fibrosis.