Doreen Gunkel, head of the Cosplay Rest and Repair Room at various Comic Cons, and known in the SCA as Dairine Ingen Niall, was in a bad rollover accident on February 4th. She broke her back and has undergone surgery.

Doreen faces months of physical therapy post surgery in an assisted living center in Colorado Springs. Insurance will not pay to transport her to back to Los Alamos, so Bill is on Family Medical Leave to take care of her. As it is, insurance is not covering the entire bill for the home, so those bills are adding up quickly.

Her truck is a total loss, as is all the supplies used for the Cosplay Rest and Repair Room.

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