Why do I always get really sick when it is going to look the most like I’m just making excuses or running away from stress? Even my appendix tried to explode when we were so short-staffed that we were literally sharing one staff member between two offices like a ping pong ball

I have six arrest reports to do, I have to open a case this morning, I’m supposed to cover a unit meeting at 9:30, and we’re being so slammed with work that the director authorized overtime, which he last allowed literal years ago

But I feel like my skull is full of snot and a fireball at every fissure