Understanding Meningitis: Signs and symptoms
A HEALTHY and “full of life” 20-year-old man died after waking up and telling his mum he “felt rubbish” and had sore legs.Mum Lisa Elmes, 42, a senior care worker, says she wishes she’d taken her only son to hospital sooner - though hisShe and her husband of eight years, Paul, say they hope their loss reminds people that life-threatening meningitis can affect anyone.
At the home the three of them lived at, Lisa found Mackenzie had a temperature and gave him some painkillers.The couple left the house around 2pm and at 6pm, Lisa went back to their home to check on Mackenzie, who was in bed texting friends and was “talking away”.I felt like I was in a bubble and it wasn’t real. It’s like when you are watching a TV programme. I just thought ‘This is not happening to me’. But it was, it was happening.
Sepsis is an overwhelming and life-threatening response to infection that can lead to tissue damage, organ failure and death. Lisa says: “We really don’t know where he picked the meningitis up from. He was always around his friends, at work, the gym.a couple of times a year. So I thought perhaps he had a sore throat and didn’t mention it to me and he doesn’t always go to the doctors - trying to is impossible.
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