 [ Symptoms ] if you do not have copd but the er thinks you do and treat you accordingly can that adversly affect your breathing  mom had an infarcted bowl took days for them to find it i told the er she had copd although she had no trouble breathing on her own except for one incident and was at that time diagnosed w copd she never took oxygen or any breathing aids after the diagnosis but since she was diagnosed i told the er when she died they put the 1st cause of death as breathing failure septic shock infarcted bowl and heart failure i think were in there as 2nd and 3rd  [ Disease ] a cataract is a clouding of the lens in the eye that affects vision most cataracts are related to aging cataracts are very common in older people by age 80 more than half of all americans either have a cataract or have had cataract surgery a cataract can occur in either or both eyes though one eye may advance faster than the other it cannot spread from one eye to the other