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Alice C's story
Twenty-four-year old Alice, from Thornton Cleveleys in Lancashire, started to feel ill at work but just put it down to a bug. However, her condition deteriorated quickly and before she knew it she was on her way to hospital in an ambulance. She recounts her experience here
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Freya S's story
Freya draws on experience to Believe and Achieve
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Vinnie's story
It was a normal day in the young life of Gemma’s son Vinnie. But this was soon to change when he started to make grunting noises and developed cold hands and feet
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Logan's story
Kirsten Kininmonth from Greenock, Inverclyde, was concerned when her baby boy Logan had a high temperature and refused to feed
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Jodie M's story
Teenager Jodie, from Halifax in West Yorkshire, came down with meningococcal meningitis at the age of three months in April 2002. Having been through the experience she’s now keen to raise awareness to help other families. She tells her story here
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Henry B's story
Henry’s family was looking forward to his first Christmas but little did they know they would spend it in hospital when the three-month-old became ill. At first his meningococcal meningitis was treated as a viral infection but as his condition worsened he eventually got the treatment he needed and went on to make a good recovery
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Jesse's story
Darcy from Hull, East Yorkshire, was concerned when her baby boy Jesse became irritable and had a high temperature
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Jenny P's story
Jenny from Nottingham, contracted viral meningitis in April 2018
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Michael T's story
Hannah’s son Michael was just four days old when she noticed he had a high temperature, and her instincts told her something wasn’t right
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Chloe H’s story
Chloe, now 20, from Bradford in West Yorkshire, came close to dying and lost her ability to see, hear and walk when she contracted meningitis at 19
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Katie H's story
Twenty-one-year-old Katie from Edinburgh thought she’d been overdoing the celebrations when she began to feel unwell in February 2018
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Ruaridh's story
Joanne’s 2-year-old son Ruaridh was really sleepy and had vomited, but it was when what she first took as a bruise started to develop that she rushed him to A&E