Marie O’Regan’s story
Meningitis Research Foundation Ambassador Marie discusses her experience with meningitis and the importance of sharing her story.
On Tuesday 22nd August 2017, Jayson was admitted to hospital with what they thought was a kidney stone.
After coming out of having an MRI, Jayson had a seizure, and was taken to the ICU where they put him into an induced coma. As Jayson did not show any of the symptoms which are usually shown when you have bacterial meningitis, it was a very long waiting game to find out what was actually wrong.
Three days of being in hospital, one MRI and one CT scan later, the doctors came to the conclusion that there was no longer any flow of blood in Jay’s brain as the bacterial meningitis had taken over, and at 2:48pm on Thursday 24th August 2017, Jay was pronounced dead.
He had the amazing ‘Celebration of life’, which so many people turned up to to share their love for ‘Baudy’. He may be gone, but he definitely will never be forgotten.
He touched so many lives and was taken way too soon.
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