"Thank you to the neurology registrar who honestly felt like a consultant already"

I had a lumbar puncture at Ninewells hospital in Dundee and just wanna say a massive thank you to the registrar, Sesh, who did it. I was low-key nervous going in, but he was so confident and smooth with it that it almost caught me off guard. He pressed one spot on my back, went straight for it, and nailed it first try — no counting down vertebrae, no x-ray guidance, no hesitation. That precision alone made me trust him.

What made it cooler though was how he managed to juggle like three things at once — actually doing the procedure, teaching a junior doctor, and still keeping me calm with that familiar cheeky humour in doctors. At one point I kept saying ow (nothing hurt, I was anxious and I generally like to voice my fear anticipations lol) and he goes -  I appreciate you saying ow a lot, but just tell me if you feel something strange, the constant ow’s won’t change the fact it’s a needle. And I laughed… during a lumbar puncture. Who does that?

Even when we were just waiting for the spinal fluid to drip out, he turned it into a teaching moment (the boring part where we wait), which showed me how much he already thinks and acts like a consultant. Not just ticking a box, but actually leading, teaching, and reassuring at the same time.

Honestly, I walked in worried and walked out thinking - Wow, that was way less scary than I thought, and kinda cool to watch him work. He deserves some recognition, because that mix of confidence, skill, and personality is rare. Big thank you.