Anyone else ignore the obvious signals that you're sick until you sound like a batman impressionist?

Dunno. I've only had sick leave for a total of 70 days over the course of 21 years.

10 of those were after the appendicectomy, 50 when I broke my toe (and I wanted to work, but they wouldn't let me).

Out of the other 10, 4 were kidney stones and 1 food poisoning.

So just 5 days of "sickness", so I guess I ignore them alright.