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Nicole's story
Linda's daughter Nicole was just eight weeks old when she fell ill. At first, Nicole was just crying and restless, with bad diarrhoea – but when she was still unwell the next day, Linda, from Middleton in Manchester, decided to take her to hospital
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Tom B's story
Tom fell ill following a school trip, with an extreme headache, vomiting and fever. Since then his meningitis has returned three times and he lives in fear of further attacks
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Quinn's story
Helen’s new-born baby Quinn battled back from viral meningitis twice in the first six weeks of his life and is now a happy eight-month-old. Helen, from Woodhall Spa in Lincolnshire, recounts their experience here
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Thain's story
Jennifer’s young son Thain was lifeless, sleepy and pale. She saw several doctors before he was taken by ambulance to hospital, where meningitis was diagnosed. Thankfully Thain pulled through but he has been left with after-effects
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Claire A's story
What started as a normal Monday morning with what she thought was just a cold took a very nasty turn and by Tuesday Claire, from Huntingdon in Cambridgeshire, was going downhill fast. Claire, 43, tells us what happened next
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Luke T's story
Luke, from Caversham, is following in the footsteps of his fundraising mum and running in this year’s Reading Half Marathon to raise money for Meningitis Now
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Katie P's story
It was Christmas Eve 1990 and Katie P started to feel very unwell. She quickly went downhill, but luckily her mum knew what the symptoms were because a friend’s son had recently had the disease. Katie, from Grimsby, tells her story
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Zoe's story
Zoe, from Newmarket, was a long way from home on a trip to Bali in June 2017 when she started to feel very ill. Her symptoms worsened until she ended up in hospital in a medically induced coma
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Joanne S' story
Jenny’s baby daughter Joanne had been unwell for several days, but this was initially put down to teething. Then a chest infection was diagnosed but when Joanne’s condition deteriorated, Jenny, from Ilkeston in Derbyshire, rushed her straight to hospital
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Leo W's story
Rebecca W, from Chesterfield in Derbyshire, had no idea her baby son had contracted meningitis because the only symptom he had was rapid breathing
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Nancy's story
One of our young supporters, Molly, from the south of London, lost her youngest sister Nancy to meningitis in 2015
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Layla-Rose's story
Six-year-old Layla Rose Ermenekli tragically died after contracting meningitis in 2017. Last year, an inquest ruled that her death could have been avoided