Quantell Wood is a laughing 11-year-old with a taste for video games, music and carousels. But his recent liver transplant has become infected, and Quantell may need another transplant operation. Or, his adoptive mother, Pam, may choose to wait and hope the infection clears. Quantell's medical history is a nightmare. His birth mother used alcohol and drugs. He was born 3 months early, with serious problems. For the first 16 months of life, he was in a hospital. Then he was in a foster home, where Pam Wood volunteered. "He was pretty vegged-out at that point," Pam recalls. "If you propped him in a corner and he fell over, he wouldn't cry, he wouldn't attempt to move." After several weeks, Quantell made direct eye contact with Pam – and smiled. "From that point on, I was hooked," she says, "He'd made the decision that we needed to be a family." Life, Hope & Transplants A transplant isn't always the best answer. See how a highly skilled team helps parents make the hard choices. CONTINUE A Peaceful Death How to offer a child the chance to live fully even as he may be dying. CONTINUE Get to know the children and their families. MORE