Board Thread:WARNING ALL USERS False Info\Spoilers/@comment-24438878-20130807025507/@comment-74.79.124.146-20130812031818

The fact that Stiles' hallucination of his father in Party Guessed said that Stiles' mother lay in the hospital "slowly" dying doesn't say accident to me. It says an illness of some kind. The fact that Stiles blames himself for it (indicated by the "You killed your mother" line from the halluci!Sheriff) could simply mean that she deferred care from a doctor/ignored warning signs until it was too late for medical care to do more than make her comfortable.

This could mean:

1)  Undetected cancer that metastasized.  Something as simple as a melanoma can be life-threatening if mets spread to other organs.  (a la Izzy Stevens from Grey's Anatomy)

2)  Diabetes.  Especially if she was insulin dependant before the pregnancy, the toll the baby would take on her body might have caused irreparable damage.  Then you add in that Stiles required more intense care because of his ADHD, and you have the possibility of his mother slipping into a diabetic coma and not waking up.

I'm looking forward to finding out more about it, and I'm hoping that we're only getting it because Stiles' anxiety about his father possibly dying would impel him to talk about the loss of his mother to someone. Joss Whedon proved with Joyce Summers' aneyurism and death that perfectly prosaic medical conditions can still be impactful even in a supernatural series. It would be somehow disappointing if Jeff Davis couldn't make use of that here, instead deciding that somehow fans won't be satisfied unless everything has a supernatural connection or cause.