Survivor Stories

Here is where you can send your story about your experience related to meningitis. Send us your story to fund@meningitis.ca and we will review it and post it on this page. 

Some of the people here have suffered through meningitis without any after effects. Others still carry its scars. But they all survived and their stories may inspire others to endure or their families to hope.

Mom made Denise go to school on Monday, in spite of her sore throat. It was June, near the end of the school year, every day was important, and she had a presentation to make. However, by 4 a.m. on…
Leyah had a cold, not unusual for a two-year-old. Two days later she had symptoms of meningitis but the hospital suspected pneumonia. Fiona felt it was more and was persistent. Her instincts were…
Hi, I'm Helen Smith, I'm 25 years old, born and bred in Cambridge, UK, and that's where I live now with my parents. I went to Bath University and graduated in 1997 in Molecular and…
It was in January of 2010 while on holidays in Cuba that I became ill with bacterial meningitis. I remember feeling lousy like heat stroke or too much rum.
When I was 15 years old I got a really bad headache and began to feel really sick. I layed on the couch all day and my mom treated me for flu symptoms. I was getting worse and by the middle of the…
When I was 8 years old I left school on a Friday with a headache and fatigue. I became increasingly sick throughout the night (severe vomiting, fever) and could not sleep or even keep water down...…
Ashley's father, Dan, tells her story.
My story starts a year ago, one evening I went to the hospital with a horrible head ache and blurred vision, it was written off as a migraine.
On July 31 we where very happy parents of a very health 7lbs 12 oz's baby girl.
My story begins in May of l996 I contracted viral meningitis.