News & Stories
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Stories
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
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Mark P's story
Mark Pratley battled meningitis twice – and has now thanked Meningitis Now for the support we gave to help him on his road to recovery
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Jack D's story
When Jill’s newborn baby fell ill in July last year she was told it was “just viral meningitis”. Initially relieved, she started reading up on it and realised there was no “just” about it. Jill, from Lenzie, near Glasgow, told us their story
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Jackie G's story
Jackie was unable to celebrate her landmark 40th birthday and a special surprise her children had planned when she fell ill with meningitis
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Maria's story
Maria has underlying health conditions, so when she first became ill in October 2019, aged 64, she thought it was a side-effect of the treatment she was having. In fact though her headache was a symptom of pneumococcal meningitis
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Katie and Tilly's story
Katie’s 2-year-old daughter Tilly had a high temperature, was sick and lethargic. She contacted her GP but when a rash began to appear and didn’t fade when she did the glass test, she immediately called 999
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Corey's story
Corey from Gravesend was just 20 months old when he fell ill with meningitis back in 2004. Fifteen years on, Corey, now 16, told us how much he feels a part of the Meningitis Now family
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Gemma M's story
Gemma had a range of symptoms including fever, sickness, photophobia, a very bad head pain, stiff neck and confusion. The 21-year-old from Basildon in Essex had contracted viral meningitis
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Lindsey's story
Nursery assistant Lindsey was 44 when she became unwell with an earache, headache and high temperature in September 2018. It was initially diagnosed as an ear infection, but when she started having seizures her worried partner called an ambulance
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Kevin D's story
Kevin contracted meningitis as a very young child, which caused him to lose most of his eyesight. But he has never let this define him and has gone on to lead a very fulfilling life
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Joanne J's story
Joanne Jeffries from Congleton in Cheshire was glad she called NHS Direct when she did because once they heard her talk they called an ambulance
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Stuart B's story
Twenty-one-year-old Stuart died suddenly of meningococcal meningitis and septicaemia whilst at university in Coventry in 1998