Given how obtuse, self defeating and generally completely pointless my emphysema really is, it can also be surprisingly clever.
Inspired by your earlier comments, I've finally decided to make a concerted attempt to get to grips with the disease and particularly my contradictory symptoms.
For instance, Can anyone please explain to me why it is I become so breathless - at rest!?. It's exhausting and demoralizing and I just don't understand it. If I keep myself moving, (I have the cleanest car in the county) I'm comparatively OK. However, an hour on my derriere to commune with 360 COPD and I'm shot again - gasping like a guppy.