From what I’ve seen working in Long Term Care, it’s decades and that’s really if they stop drinking or are forced to stop. Add on her procedures and stuff, who really knows. I can tell you though, they don’t really have much of a quality of life. Either their mind is too far gone or the body is… and in most cases both are gone. Also, one of the treatments is lactulose…. And I swear lactulose poops smell much worse than CDiff poops. Before I started working when I work, they had a resident who they had to give them alcohol with every meal because the doctors all agreed that if they stopped the person from drinking, it would kill them.
Also, if your liver damage is from something like drinking, in most cases, you need 6 months to a year of sobriety to even qualify for a liver transplant and that’s honestly the only cure for Alcoholism related Liver disease.
Alcoholism is also now one of the top reasons people get liver transplants. The filters aren’t doing much anymore and she’s surrounded by enablers… so it can be decades.