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Another £200 raised from our street collection in Yeovil on the 26th November!!   ***NEWS JUST IN!!*** 2nd Annual Charity golf day now confirmed!! Friday 4th May 2012!!!!!   Thanks for taking the time to visit our JustGiving page. We are holding a charity golf event at Yeovil Golf Club on 18 May 2011 in aid of the Meningitis Trust. Our son was unfortunate enough to contract Meningococcal Meningitis B in November 2009. We know everyone doesn’t play golf, and this is why this page has been set up so people can make a donation if they wish.    If you are a company that would like to help with the golf day, either by donating a prize for the auction or sponsoring a hole,  please get in contact at <a href="mailto:charitygolfday@hotmail.co.uk">charitygolfday@hotmail.co.uk</a>   We are trying to raise as much money for the trust as we can as our way of saying thank you.  Here is Charlie's Story: <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: red; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Saturday morning got up as normal, went in to get Charlie from his cot and he was covered from head to toe in spots/rash. As any mother would I ran to the kitchen and grabbed a glass and pressed it against his legs – the spots didn’t disappear! I got dressed as quickly as humanly possible and got him to the hospital! <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: red; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">They checked him over, and then he got his senior consultant down to check him over. They came to the conclusion it wasn’t meningitis but Chicken Pox. – We were sent home! <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: red; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Charlie still didn’t seem right, Sunday, Monday came and went, he played a bit, but didn’t seem himself. Tuesday his temperature soared up to 40.1 so he was dosed up on paracetamol, Tuesday night he went to bed normal time, we checked him throughout the night his temp seemed to have come down. Went to wake him up on Wednesday morning – but he was still very sleepy. Picked him up and he didn’t really want to wake up. Tried to change his nappy and he only stirred. I decided to put him back down and let him sleep it off. An Hour later he still didn’t want to wake up, but I noticed his temp had significantly dropped. He was so cold. I tried to wake him up but he didn’t. Fear set in. I wrapped him in a blanket and got to the hospital as quick as I could! I knew this wasn’t chicken pox. <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: red; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Once at the hospital we went straight into a room and they began pumping him with antibiotics – they told us this was fluids, they didn’t want to scare us. He was so lifeless and limp. The first canular went in – he screamed, it broke my heart to hear my baby boy in so much pain, but I knew it would do him good. <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: red; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">We got taken up to the children’s ward and put in a side room in isolation. <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: red; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">The next day they did a lumbar Puncture to rule out meningitis – this is what confirmed our worst fears.  He had Meningococcal Meningitis B. <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: red; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Then the seizures started, not full on body shaking but little twitches within his arms and legs down one side – The doctors weren’t sure whether it was seizures or if he had a stroke. So he was started on anti convulsion meds, which stopped the seizure within minutes. They said it was probably just a one off and down to his temperature going up and down. <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: red; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Next morning he had another seizure, this time lasting for around 2 hours, then next morning another lasting 3 hours. They were pumping so many drugs into him it started to affect his breathing – they decided he needed to go to intensive care. Charlie got rushed to Bristol Children’s Hospital in a paediatric ambulance with us following behind in an ambulance car.  We only spent one night there as the seizures seemed to have stopped so we were transferred back to Yeovil Hospital the next day. Once back he seemed to be getting better, before we knew it he was wriggling round his cot and trying to escape. That Sunday the morning rounds came and we were told we could home. 11 days after being admitted. <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: red; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">A year on Charlie has no long lasting effect from meningitis, his hearing/sight checks are all clear and he is now off the anti seizure meds. May 2010, we had the all clear from the hospital and were discharged. Our little boy is now a normal walking, talking mischievous little 19 month old, another couple of hours we would’ve had a very different ending. <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: red; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> The illness itself is something we don’t believe people really know enough about and that is how the trust comes in. They are doing their best to help spread the word and give people the knowledge to know the signs of Meningitis. They are also a support line for people who have been affected by meningitis. We thank god everyday for them helping our son get better, but without the support from the trust we don’t know how we would have got through the last year.  Donating through JustGiving is simple, fast and totally secure. Your details are safe with JustGiving – they’ll never sell them on or send unwanted emails. Once you donate, they’ll send your money directly to the charity and make sure Gift Aid is reclaimed on every eligible donation by a UK taxpayer. So it’s the most efficient way to donate - I raise more, whilst saving time and cutting costs for the charity.  So please dig deep and donate now.

Fiona, James and Charlie's page

Fiona, James and Charlie's page

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