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On friday 29th of november 2013 was the day our story began,my little girl lillie age 2 years old had become very poorly with a high temp at 41.2, i tried everything in my power to cool her down but nothing was touching it,i took her straight to blackburn a and e department were the gp had seen her after a 4 hour wait, by this point lillie was vommiting and floppy, the gp was adament it was a urine infection, it had come back negative,he was sending me home saying was a viral infection,it didnt take a brain surgeon to work out there was somthing seriously up with lillie!

so i demanded to see a peditrician as i found out a and e staff are not peditrician trained!

with in 20mins lillie was on iv drips of fluid as she was dhydrated, and bloods taken,her tempeture was still out of control,

after 24 hours the doctors confirmed lillie had a large infection as her bloods showed up white antibodies, but at this point they wasnt sure what it was, they grew her bloods for another 48 hours and the monday evening we got the awful news we was praying it not to be menigococcol it belongs to the meningitis family.

within half an hour she had been moved from a ward to high dependcey unit in her own room, hooked to antibitoics, the next day we was told we had to give permission for a lumber puncture to check the fluid around her brain wasnt effected.

lillie was lucky she had a persistent mother because i nearly went home trusting the doctor but i new my daughter wasnt right,  the doctors told us we caught it in time another 72 hours she would of got septicimia.

they struggled to diagnose lillie with meninigitas because she didnt have a rash ,or sensitive towards the light but 7percent of children dont get these symptoms and unfortunatly lillie was one of them!!

there is not enough awerness!

please help me raise my target so i can put my bit to menigitas research, there are far to many babies,children and young adults dying of this horrible diease each year.

i will be doing a sky dive on the 6th april in lancaster at 12.30pm

thank you

samantha and lilliexxxx