
Since I moved in with my grandmother she’s looked awfully strange lately also a decline in mobility. Her face stays pale and often imagines things and mistakened the remote control once for the telephone and thought she was conversing which was the first red flag once I had moved in. She has complained with her heart bothering her for sometime now and the doctors always say her heart sounds fine but we know differently. Her eyes look afar off and in one eye I can see a white dot but I try not to stare or she’ll notice me looking. I don’t know what to expect or what she or I am facing.
My 90 year old mother was recently told her heart was "fine" but she has congestive heart failure. What the doctor meant was "fine for someone who has a heart that is failing." He was able to give my sister a more accurate appraisal of the situation with my mother out of the room.
If your grandmother has allowed it, you may get a better idea of what you are dealing with if you speak directly and frankly with her doctor. The doctor's office might be able to suggest resources for you and your grandmother to keep her home and comfortable.