The daughter is a stepdaughter, age 26. She wasn’t raised by my co-worker, but her biological mom is not on the scene, and she has a very loving relationship with my co-worker (who is also my friend). My co-worker ALREADY lost a 17-year-old son to a car wreck two years ago. Even before this, she hated to answer the phone at night for fear of terrible news. I feel awful for all concerned. The daughter is in the hospital and probably needs a liver transplant. Oh, I don’t know what to say to my co-worker/friend when she comes back to work. Should I wait for her to mention it? Or should I say something? I don’t want to bring it up if she doesn’t want to talk about it at work.
No shame in replying to my own thread - just heard that because it was an attempted suicide, she can’t get on the list for a liver transplant. She goes in and out of consciousness and in and out of lucidity. When they (co-worker and her husband) walked in she said,“Hey! What are you guys doing here?”
I went through that about 8 years ago. It is not fun. Those folks have my sympathy. Glad to say my step daughter survived and is doing well today. And we are still paying on the $33,000 hospital bill that our insurance would not cover.
That’s horrible; I’m so sorry to hear that. 
My brother-in-law was hospitalized for liver failure due to alcoholism about a year ago, and he was also ineligible for the transplant list; I think you have to be sober a year before you can get on it. He was fortunate and his liver function returned, and it’s basically working normally these days.