COVID-19, COVID Inquiry, Meningitis, Measles and Other Health and Virus UK and World News Update 20th March 2026 8th March was the UK's ...

UK COVID Briefing 23rd June 2021 - NOT with Boris... UK Cases: 4,667,870 (+16,135) Losses of Life: 128,027 (+19) In Hospital: 1,508 (Monday ...

Five years ago my partner was in bed unable to control his own temperature, stay awake more than about 30 minutes or concentrate on anything...

Here is my personal experience of how to spot Meningitis in an adult, young person or older child. No two cases of Meningitis are the same, ...

I shall not miss you.... Last year when I posted my 'goodbyes' on New Year's Eve and was so very glad to see the back of 2013...

Wow. When I started this blog 500 posts seemed like something impossible that would take years, yet it's come up so quickly I nearly m...

Today we did something awesome. Well, okay, I just did some driving - my other half did something awesome. He cycled a leg of the Team Honk ...

It's now just over 7 months since my partner developed Viral Meningitis, and he's still in a lot of pain. We're lucky that it...

Exactly 6 months ago, all of a sudden, the lives of all of our family changed when my partner got Meningitis. On that day, after leaving hi...

Anna from In The Playroom has had a fantastic idea for a linky - your top 13 parenting posts of the year. Hers are all really informative an...

Last week my partner had a load of blood tests done to try and see if there is anything besides Post-Meningitis Pain causing the cramping an...

I last saw a Doctor about my leg on 26th September, when I was told the break was healing nicely, but the fact my knee was swollen and tende...

I've delayed posting this. I had intended to post last week and be full of the news that my partner was back at work full time finally, ...

So, six weeks. six whole weeks. I can barely believe it. I can remember the beginning as if it was last week, yet it almost seems like ...

Four weeks ago I had watched my partner have a Lumbar Puncture, and 3 hours later we'd had the results. He'd been put into isolati...

This is a very special photo, on a very special day.  This is a man who four weeks ago was seriously ill and developing Meningitis , ...

We went out! Our children have been really brilliant so far this Summer and entertained themselves at home, but finally we've reache...

It's amazing what 48 hours of antibiotics can do. I think I love Alexander Fleming. When I consider how scared I was on Sunday night, ...

He didn't get any better. In fact he got a bit hotter and I had to wake him up overnight and make him take paracetamol and get out from ...