Originally Posted by Slidefox

Well....

My little brother called me the other day to tell me my mom was in the hospital. They thought she had a cold, seeing is that my family has a history of asthma. After my mom getting worse of the next day or so, and extensive tests... the doctors have come to the conclusion that she has COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease).

My aunt (My moms older sister) was diagnosed with COPD a few months ago, and was hospitalized for a few weeks. Her health got really bad. To the point where machines were pumping her blood and breathing for her. This is really starting to worry me, because my grandfather died of COPD when I was a little boy.

The Wikipedia Definition....



At this point my family is wondering if this is hereditary. My mom currently is in the hospital for more test, but it is not looking good. At least she has to quite smoking now. Which I have been wanting her to do since they day she started (Which also happened to be the day my uncle died of black lung... go figure).