My first day to the support group

I went to the hospital for gall bladder surgery January 6th 2010 and on the 8th I was unable to breath.  Taken to the hospital on January 13th I learned I had copd stage 3. I am very afraid, I do not want to die.  I can not leave my family.  I just became a new grandmother for the first time. My whole world is caving in, I need help