News & Stories
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Stories
Conor's story
Eighteen-year-old Conor, from Belfast, has been unfortunate enough to contract meningitis not once but three times in the last seven years, without once developing the rash commonly associated with the disease
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Juley's story
Juley, from Sheffield, contracted pneumococcal meningitis in April 2017. Only quick action by her husband saved her life
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Poppy F's story
When three-year-old Poppy first fell ill her mother Emma didn’t suspect meningitis because there was no rash
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Alexia's story
Thirty-six year old Alexia, from Darley in North Yorkshire, was rushed into hospital at the beginning of October and diagnosed with severe bacterial meningitis and severe secondary acute reactive arthritis
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Madeleine's story
Madeleine was only two years old when a rash broke out on her body. Within hours, her parents were being told she only had a 50/50 chance of survival, her mother Lisa, from Oldham, tells her terrifying story.
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Barry P's story
Following routine cochlear implant surgery, Barry became ill not once, but twice with bacterial meningitis. He tells us his story
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Joanna A's story
Joanna has been left with lifelong after-effects from her meningitis and has spent the past four years relearning how to do absolutely everything
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Anthony A's story
Anthony had seemed fine on the Tuesday morning when he left home for work. That evening he had a high temperature, headache and was vomiting, but there was no reason to believe it was anything other than a nasty stomach bug
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Susan's story
Susan Skinner, from Redhill, was in her fifties when she contracted viral meningitis for the second time in her life. Here she tells how help from Meningitis Now helped her get through a very difficult time
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Lucy O's story
Lucy O’s 71-year-old mum Barbara thought she had caught a cold when she first started to feel ill but what happened next was the start of a very scary journey for them both. Here Lucy, from Grimsby, recounts how it felt to be told her mother might not survive
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Ami K's story
Ami, from Greater London, contracted bacterial meningitis 35 years ago at the age of 2. She survived her ordeal but the disease has left her with lifelong after-effects, making her keen to tell her story and raise awareness. She shares her experience here
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Carol M's story
It has taken Carol M sixteen years to pull her life back together following the sad death of her daughter Akira from meningitis when they were visiting family in the Caribbean. Carol, from London, has battled with grief ever since but here tells how starting a jewellery company is helping her cope