I believe there are many, many "shades of gray", one thing is your case where the workplace became clearly unhealthy, another thing is :

>I hated working in an open office and tried to leverage my post-dental-surgery fragility into a private office or the right to work from home.

And actually have the - fill the gap - (courage/guts/impudence/insolence/crazyness) to actually write about it.

"post-dental-surgery fragility", come on ...