Hello,my dad has been in hospital for 6weeks now,we have been told he is in end stage liver disease,being an alcoholic he is not eligible for a transplant and we know his days are numbered.The hard thing is not knowing how long he has left because some days are better than others.He is jaundiced,his sleep pattern is reversed and he goes into deep sleeps often,his kidney function lapsed but has improved,he has asophagial varices,encephalopathy,his ascites has resolved,is faecally and urine incontinent,is being fed via nasogastric tube (a high protien jevity feed due to malnutriction.He is tachycardic at times,,with all these complications we know its bad but need a timescale.Please help we dont know how much longer we can watch him fade away.