Early this morning my best friend's father passed away. Please keep her and her family in your thoughts through this difficult time. At this point, I'm not sure that they know exactly what happened. He was in the hospital again and they were trying to dianose him, but the opinions varied -- infection in his lungs, cancer, pneumonia and something else. He's been in and out of the hospital in the past year, so while this certainly wasn't wholly unexpected, it was still a shock. Considering yesterday his dianoses where "Level 3 Mast Cell Lung Cancer" and "Whatever he had a month ago, he can still get better."
Her mother will be housebound if she goes back to college, so there are lots of very big decisions to be made here in the near future. They are probably going to lose everything because of this, and because her mother does not work. Just send all the good thoughts and prayers you can their way, because I have no doubt they're going to need them.