Sarah, from Manchester, recounts the sad story of her stepdaughter Maya in support of our No Plan B for Men B campaign.
"My 19-year-old stepdaughter Maya was studying in Bristol. She was thriving, enjoying freedom, new friends and her course in environmental studies after a difficult few years of Covid.
"I was away working in Thailand when I got a call in the middle of the night to tell me Maya was unwell and going to hospital. That morning my husband told me she was in a coma.
"My mind scrambled to make sense of what he was telling me. Had she been partying? Did someone give her drugs that she had a reaction to was what I automatically thought.
Got on the first flight
"I immediately gathered up my 18-year-old daughter who was with me and got on the first flight we could that day.
"We had a stopover in Dubai and I'll never forget the devasting call from my husband telling me Maya wasn't coming back. We were left in total shock.
"We arrived back at Manchester Airport. Zara and my husband took us straight to the hospital, where we sat with Maya. She looked so alive and healthy, she was warm to the touch so our brains just couldn't fathom that she was gone.
Halloween party
"We were informed that Maya had contracted meningitis, probably from being at a party over Halloween. She had started to feel unwell. My husband had advised her to take paracetamol and if she was still feeling bad in a few hours he would come and get her.
"In the meantime Maya's mother had driven to get her and in the car between Bristol and Manchester Maya had suffered a seizure. Her mum drove her to the nearest hospital where she was rushed in, but it was too late. There was nothing anyone could have done to save her.
"Our lives will never be the same. Zara, her twin, and her would speak every day and were so close. She is left behind to be in the world for the rest of her life alone. My husband is left with a loss that he will never get over.
Suddenly, without warning
"She leaves parents, a brother, a twin, grandparents, aunts, uncles and a whole group of close friends in shock at how this has all happened so suddenly without warning.
"If she had been vaccinated she would still be here living her life.
"There should be more education about MenB and the option to have a free vaccine to vulnerable groups. Maya's brother and sister have now been vaccinated privately."