News & Stories
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Lynne M's story
Lynne from Carnoustie in Angus, Scotland started getting headaches when she was taking part in a fundraising effort for her sister-in-law’s cancer treatment. After a terrible night of shaking and sweating, she decided to seek medical help and went on to be diagnosed with meningitis
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Mia C's story
Kirsty’s great niece Mia had a difficult start in life when, shortly after birth, she was diagnosed with meningitis
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Imogen's story
Twenty-six-year-old Imogen had a severe headache and was slurring her speech. She rang her mum, who insisted she phone 111 before rushing round to take her to A&E, where meningitis was diagnosed
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Rebecca R's story
Twenty-seven-year-old Rebecca, from Dereham in Norfolk, was at work last September when she thought she was getting a migraine. However this failed to respond to her usual medication and by the following day was worse than ever
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Zachary's story
Rachael thought a very small mark in the centre of her son Zachary’s head was a birthmark, but when the two-month-old stopped feeding well and developed a temperature just after Christmas she called 111
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Tim F's story
Tim Fear, of Totterdown in Bristol, was one of the children caught up in the original meningitis outbreak in Stroud in the 1980s that saw the birth of Meningitis Now. He tells his story here
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Barry and Anita's story
Anita’s dad Barry was a fit and healthy 74-year-old one day but laid low by meningitis the next. The family thought he would never come out of an induced coma, but Barry pulled through and beat meningitis, despite suffering terrible after-effects
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Thomas B's story
Thomas Butler, from Seghill in Northumberland, was sent home from hospital with what he thought was a relatively minor illness. Less than ten minutes after leaving hospital, he had a seizure – and was taken straight back to A&E
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Evie M's story
When Paris Mcallan’s baby daughter Evie initially fell ill, doctors thought she had swallowed a battery! Luckily they soon diagnosed meningitis and Evie was given the help she needed
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Ember E's story
Baby Ember completed her family, but within a day she showed signs of being ill with red hands and feet, slight grunting whilst breathing and mottled skin at the top of her legs
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Barney's story
Rod Adlington’s son Barney was a happy, healthy three-year-old in 2005 until one morning he fell ill with a headache. He was taken to hospital and tragically he died early the next morning
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Harrison M's story
It was only because she was home after attending a funeral that Ellamae Monk discovered her 20-year-old brother Harrison collapsed on the floor of their bathroom and was able to call for an ambulance