I was recently in a car accident and had to go to the er a couple of days later, I was also starting to get a very bad cold I thought that I had pneumonia they had done a chest x-ray and noticed that there was a nodule in on of my lungs, the doctor asked if i had valley fever but i never had to my knowledge. So i have see a primary doctor and she ask if i was a smoker, and I never had been never even tried it and no one in my family smokes as well.