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You might want to ask your vet for advice rather than waiting for them to bring it up.
They'll have a lot of experience and might be better able to contextualize her subjective experience of the symptoms.
This is 100% the right way to go about it. If you tell them you want to let her go at the right time, but want to give her the best, most comfortable life possible while you can, they'll be able to help you plan for what you can do to make her happy.
The only advice I can give is that if you do need to put her down sometime, make sure you're in the room, and comforting them until the end.
Yes to being in the room!!! The stories of the pets looking around for their best friend in their last moments breaks by heart.
Also, for those that don't know, there's in-home services for this so it doesn't need to be in a strange place for them.
(And how fucked up that in most places we have that for our pets but not our sick loved ones.)