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.