Sitting in a park in Stuttgart with my mate discussing the worst medical scenario we could imagine, and he came up with a lumbar puncture. My imagined fear of this procedure froze me to the spot and I had to be shaken out of it.

Not so long after, back in UK I had a fever whereupon my GP sent me to hospital with suspected meningitis and sure enough my nightmare came alive.

Indescribable pain, but most of it was probably in my mind.
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