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Meningitis
In July 2013 my previously fit and healthy partner became ill with Viral Meningitis. He still has limb and hand pain over 5 years later, and his short term memory is very poor, with gaps in his long term memory. Without any warning his life changed forever.
These are the posts that I started writing at the time, and what I have written since. Some of them aren't in any way my best writing, they're me trying to get my head straight and keep a record of what is happening. I'm very glad I wrote them because those first few weeks passed as a blur, and I wouldn't otherwise remember everything that happened, and my partner cannot remember very much of 2013 at all - either before or after the Meningitis.
Meningitis can strike anyone, at any time. It usually occurs because a simple bacteria or virus enters the brain, where it should never be. My partner's Meningitis was caused by Chicken Pox virus.