Cousin dying of cirrhosis of the liver *details*

I just got the news that my 41 year old cousin was admitted to the intensive care unit in FL.

She has known that she has cirrhosis for 5 years and continued to drink. She has had her stomach drained in the past and before this latest episode she was green yellow, hallucinating and had an extremely swollen abdomen. She still drank.

She started throwing up blood last night and then proceeded to bleed out of every orifice of her body. I have read that liver failure is a long painful death but never heard these horrific details,

My uncle said that as they were trying put her on the gurney and she was throwing up blood, she was trying to drink a beer.

This disease wants us dead. I tell y'all this to get it off my chest but also because it is a grim possible reality that is out there for us alcoholics.