Eventually, I had a meeting at work. I'd been off for so long because of everything that had been happening. The injuries. The hospital. The fear. The constant chaos that had somehow become my normal life. And I walked into that meeting carrying something I'd become very good at carrying: secrets. I'd spent months giving people tiny pieces of the truth. Enough to explain an injury. Enough for somebody to realise I wasn't okay. Enough for a nurse to send me to A&E. But never e