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Hi guys I just let u no my son’s story he’s name is Michael last year we went to Skegness for a few days holiday with the kids we where in the games arcade all day with the kids that really where having the best day on till that night well he had high temperature getting sick I thut he had a bug my other 2kids had it a few times before but he never .but I was up all night gave him Calpol but the next morning we woke up at six and we went back to Boston that’s about 30 miles from Skegness and we registered him temporary at the first doctors we were staying at our friends there in Boston for a few months and you can actually throw a stone to the doctors it was that close to where I lived and the lady at the window outside the doctor because you couldn’t go in due to Covid she said he will video call you and we waited two hours and I could notice like red and black and blue patches coming out on Michaels body I knew something wasn’t right I asked him what happened to the one on his side and he said he was running and fell on a carpet then in my mind I thought it was like a carpet burn something that’s the time we were waiting for the doctors called bus when he did call I told him everything that was going on with Michael and he told me to go to the nearest testing side and get them tested for COVID-19 so I got really angry because this point he couldn’t stand up on his two legs I rang 111 and had to go all the way back 30 miles to Skegness to the urgent care centre and a lady came out and she told me but it’s nothing to worry about it’s only spotting so I didn’t really understand what you was saying my head was all over the place when she was gone I was looking closely to his body and I couldn’t see anything when I put my head back for I could see all these spots forming in his body I wouldn’t like normal spots are like black and blue circles so I was going around this little centre looking for somebody it was like a ghost town and I read a big piece of paper on the wall about meningitis and Michael had all the symptoms so there was a little bell beside us and I rang us and I told the lady she came out this was a different lady I said can you look at my child I think he has meningitis and she said oh my God and ran and got the doctor he came out without hesitation and gave him antibiotics and kept giving it to him and we had to wait for an ambulance for 30 minutes for to take us back to Boston hospital then they sedated him there and had to wait for sepsis ambulance to take him to Queens medical hospital Nottingham when we got there all the doctors came out with no hope that Michael would live they gave him 10 minutes to live and I was screaming around the hospital and so was all my family but I put my faith in God and I prayed and I prayed my family praise and so did the whole world and every day he was getting weaker and then he was getting better getting better every day he had menacoel septicaemia Three weeks later he had both legs amputated and they were trying for two months to keep it below the knee but then the day came that they had to Amputate above me but as he was going to theatre I begged him to pray to God that he would not need above his knees amputated and I prayed and he was a half an hour into theatre and we got a phone call that Michaels legs heaps of new skin grew on Michaels legs in the space of two days because he had to go to theatre for four months he was there every two days he was sedated and they had to clean clean his legs it happened every two days for four months But he was so brave thank you God for answering all my prayers God bless everybody on here

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Hello, we are so sorry to read about this terrible experience. You did everything you could to get Michael seen and persisted to get him medical help, trusting your instincts knowing that something just wasn’t right.

Thankfully, Michael has survived, and it sounds like he is a real little fighter. However, this has been a very traumatic time for you and your family. Please be aware that we are here to support anyone in the UK who have been impacted by meningitis. You can read more about the ways we can help here: meningitisnow.org/how-we-help/

If we can be of support, now or in the future, please let us know by contacting our nurse-led helpline on 0808 8010 388 (UK Freephone) or by email: helpline@meningitisnow.org

Best wishes

Claire

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Marymcdonagh in reply to MNClaireD

Thank u so much for your reply and ya I’ll never get over it what happen to Michael that’s a horrible evil disease that try’s to take lives .god bless u

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Bentley333 in reply to Marymcdonagh

O my goodness i am so sorry for your struggles with your son. My mom got bacterial meningitis 5 years ago it has affected her brain short term memory and problem solving shows signs of dementia. I having a very hard day today helping her your story helped me. Thank you

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Fortywinks4

Mary, my heart goes out to you. Basically every second counts with b.m.

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