budnkota

This kind of plays a bit into another discussion, but was something I was thinking about already... (If you don't want to read the long rant, the primary poinnt is the last paragraph)

I have an aunt who's about 36. She's had serious medical problems since she was about 16. I don't think they really know what's wrong, but they have given it the following labels: lupus muscular myopathy, bud chairi syndrom, evans syndrome and something else that I forget. She's been written off as dead by the docs several times and always comes back. Has been told she'll never do this or that again - yet has worked for the past 5 or 6 years as a managing CNA at an alzheimer's facility. Medically, she's a mess.
She had a hysterectomy at 21, a liver transplant or 2, she has shunts in her liver, brain surgery - you name it. About 6 weeks ago, nobody had heard from her, so they went to check on her. Had to break in the house - she was passed out on the couch (tub water overflowing - she'd have been dead already had she gotten in). Apparently her blood thinned so much that it was leaking out the artery walls (? If I understand correctly). She's been in the hospital since. They put in a colostomy bag and said she'd be paralyzed for life (could only move her face and a bit of her right hand). Did a trach and said she'd never come off the respirator. The docs had a family meeting asking if they wanted to drug her unconscious and pull the plug. Aunt was asked and indicated "no," she wants to continue to fight. She's gained back the ability to lift her legs slightly and WAS able to get off the respirator. But if her liver doesn't start to work my Weds, they say it's going to be a big problem.

If it were me, I'd have checked out by now. Assuming full mental abilities, at what point would you decide it was time to just go?