A few weeks ago my father, whom is 77 years old, was complaining of not sleeping well, and coughing with sinus drainage. It got so bad he suggested that I take him to the hospital a few days last, which is obvious not like him.
The diagnosed him with pneumonia and sent him home since there were so many sick people at the hospital, and the doc didn't want him to become sicker.
We went back to the DR a few days later and the doctor said he was getting better, and that he just needs to continue to take the antibiotics etc. 4 days later my father complains again and I take him back to the ER, to find out he has Congestive Heart Failure with a ton of fluid in his chest around his lungs/heart.
The Doc did do a ultrasound on his heart and it came back that he has a very weak heart. They wanna to continue to give him meds, and see if they can eliminate the fluids.
What are we looking at here? Is there anything else we can do, what is the life expectancy? He really looks like he is in really bad shape.