Thank You, folks for your care and concern. I'm glad to be out of the hospital and in my own home at least. To answer your questions briefly I have an acute upper respiratory infection caused by the rhinovirus. That's right - a Common Cold! Not so common when you have COPD!
I lost about 5% of my lung capacity and although I will do everything in my power to regain at least some of that loss, most if not all is gone for good. I have already begun exercising little by little to rehabilitate.
Can't sit at the computer long so I'll leave you with this thought:
Smoking is simply not worth it! What other "vice" would you allow to kill you in such an insidious way because "I like it?"
All I can think of is ADDICTIVE DRUGS and ALCOHOL. We are Addicts to Nicotine!
I wish I had understood that before I got COPD!