An ailment that prevents the afflicted from attending work. Over a period of time the sufferer concocts increasingly unlikely stories of obscure medical complaints that
keep them from work, whilst strangely maintaining their ability to participate in physical outdoor pursuits,
like say mountaineering.
When contacting their workplace to report their absense, the sufferer often greatly embelishes the details of their complaint in order to
raise plausibility, whilst ironically achieving the exact opposite.