Case studies
Meningitis and septicaemia devastate families. Each person who experiences these diseases has their own very personal response to the trauma they suffer.
Some of our members have written about their experiences and feelings below. We hope that by sharing these thoughts with you will be able to identify with our members' resolve to work together to beat meningitis and septicaemia.
"When I fell ill with meningococcal septicaemia I spent a week in intensive care on life support. I slowly but surely made a good recovery. In all it took nine months before feeling fit enough to...
Michaela Bestall knows only too well the devastation that meningitis and septicaemia can cause. Her two year old son, Curtis Easton (pictured left), tragically died from meningococcal...
Danielle Martin's fiancé , Daniel Bruce (pictured right), died of meningococcal meningitis and septicaemia aged 25.
Danielle says, "I never realised that meningitis and septicaemia could...
"When my healthy, 6'3" son, complained of feeling unwell the doctor said it was flu and prescribed antibiotics. But David's condition deteriorated and he died of meningococcal septicaemia in...
"This is the tragic story of how my healthy, beautiful 19 month old daughter, Freya, was taken from us in 11 days by pneumococcal meningitis.
"One day in April, Freya didn't seem herself. She...
Sue Newsome's daughter, Hanna (pictured right), was ill with pneumococcal meningitis when she was just 13 months old and is now profoundly deaf.
Sue says, "With Hanna having had a cochlear implant...