Hi Joan and Wayne,
Good for you to call VA to request a CT scan and an appointment with a pulmonologist. I'm tagging a few additional people on this discussion, members who also have COPD, like @abster93 @kamama94 @aldrichgirl and @waterboy. Also, in this podcast of Mayo Clinic Radio, Dr. Paul Scanlon, a pulmonologist at Mayo Clinic, talks about COPD treatment and prevention.
https://connect.mayoclinic.org/page/podcasts/newsfeed/copd-sepsis-advances-in-human-genome-research/