Meningitis stories
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Indie's story
Melissa and Steve's daughter Indie was born premature, and despite her feeling cold they were told not to worry. But, she rapidly deteriorated and died of Group B strep just 10 days after birth -
Eilidh's story
Ann Marie, Stuart and daughters Zoe and Eilidh were on a family holiday in France when Eilidh became ill with bacterial MenW meningitis and tragically passed away, aged 8 years old -
Simon K’s story
Simon fell ill in January 1977 with meningococcal septicaemia, sadly losing his life to the disease. Mum, Diane, tells the tragic story -
Charlie M's story
Our Community Ambassador Ian shares the devastating story of losing his grandson Charlie to pneumococcal meningitis -
Ian K's story
In 1974, when the medical landscape was very different to today, Vera and Rob were told that their young son Ian's life support had been turned off after a short battle with meningococcal septicaemia -
Calum's story
Margaret shares the heartbreaking story of her nephew Calum, who passed away aged 12 having just returned to school after a flu virus -
Jamie's story
When Virginia's son Jamie became unwell in 1988, doctors missed the signs of meningitis. As he deteriorated, he was rushed to hospital, but tragically passed away -
Barry and Anita's story
Anita's dad Barry was 74 when he suddenly became ill with meningococcal septicaemia, leaving him with deafness, amputations, limited vision and paralysis -
Ember E's story
Ember contracted bacterial meningitis shortly after she was born. She was taken to hospital but lost her battle with the disease just days later -
Barney's story
Meningitis Now Trustee Rod Adlington recounts the heartbreaking events leading to the tragic loss of his son Barney to meningitis in 2005 -
Af's story
On the tenth anniversary of the loss of husband Af to pneumococcal meningitis, Caroline shares her heartbreaking story -
Danielle D's story
Danielle thought she had contracted flu but in fact the new mum, from Lurgan in County Armagh, had something even worse – pneumococcal meningitis -
Shakira's story
Shakira had no signs of meningitis - she was a very happy, sassy little girl. Mum, Faye, didn’t know it was meningitis, but she knew that somehow her life was in danger -
Anthony A's story
Meningitis can strike and kill quickly, Anthony tragically lost his life to meningococcal septicaemia the day after the first symptoms appeared -
Carol M's story
Carol tragically lost her three-year-old daughter Akira to meningitis within 24-hours of the signs and symptoms appearing. -
Barry's story
Barry contracted Meningococcal meningitis in 2008. Sadly, he passed away just weeks before he was due to get married. -
Ethan's story
Ethan had viral meningitis that had attacked his heart muscle, therefore his heart was unable to work properly. -
Pippa G’s story
Pippa struggled to feed and her breathing became increasingly noisy, sadly, she had contracted group b strep meningitis -
Luke H’s story
Results came back to show Luke had ecoli meningitis in his brain and spinal fluid, which caused his body to be rife with infection. -
Jayden's story
Nurse Sharon raced round to her friend’s house when she called to say she was worried about her son Jayden, who had been taken ill. Despite taking him straight to hospital his meningitis proved too much for him to fight though, and he sadly died