News & Stories
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Stories
Lydia W's story
Teenager Lydia, from Manchester, was preparing to sit her GCSEs in April 2017 when she experienced the worst headache of her life. Within days, she was in A&E. Lydia, 16, tells us what happened next
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Caspar's story
Sharon's baby had a temperature and was off his food. Then he started to display signs of being startled and looking like he was falling off a cliff. Eleven years on, Sharon, from Beaconsfield in Buckinghamshire, tells the story of what happened to her son Caspar
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Declan C's story
Laura’s newborn baby son Declan was making a grunting sound and a strange cry. Fortunately, doctors realised straightaway what was wrong and put him on antibiotics
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Laura L's story
Laura hopes no family ever has to go through what she and her sister went through after their 72-year-old father fell ill with meningitis. It didn’t help that he lived thousands of miles away in Alicante, Spain
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Riley G's story
Lisa’s young son Riley has been left with lifelong after-effects of meningitis but he never lets anything slow him down or stop him for long
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Balvinder S’s story
Balvinder, a British born mother of three, went to India to attend her cousin’s wedding. Whilst there though she became ill and is now in a coma fighting for her life due to partial organ failure and TB meningitis
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Jacqui's story
Having a doctor for a husband may have saved Jacqui’s life after she contracted meningitis at the age of 57
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Margaret S's story
Margaret had earache for several days before she visited her doctor’s surgery. That’s about the last thing she remembers before waking up in hospital, unaware that she’d contracted meningitis
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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