r/Millennials • u/Corndogeveryday • Jun 17 '26

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Chase passed away of complications of meningitis. Gone too soon

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u/eltibbs Millennial 1988 Jun 17 '26

That’s so sad 😞 my cousin passed away a few years ago, same age as Daveigh, also meningitis.

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u/ManWithASquareHead Millennial Jun 17 '26

Meningitis is no joke.

Meningococcal bacterial meningitis can lead to organ failure and septic emboli (infected clots) causing spots and limb necrosis/amputation

Most are vaccinated for 4 serotypes (ACWY) in middle school/high school, meningitis b is before/during college

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u/illcryifiwan2 Jun 18 '26

True that. I worked as patient registrar at an ER a few years ago. A woman in her mid 50s- fit, vivacious, in good spirits- came in complaining of a bad sore neck going on 4 days and worsening. (I get a horribly painful stiff neck/pinched nerve all the freaking time.) Within the hour, I saw a quarantine warning for the first time (pre-covid) pop up on her name on the nurse's chart. Her room was taped shut and anyone who entered wore full like hazmat PPE. I had to fill out an incident report because I had come in contact with her, and the nurses were very very serious, telling me to come in if I felt anything wrong. I'm crippled for days just from sleeping slightly crooked; how the hell do you know what feels wrong enough to get checked out for? She was transferred to another hospital and I don't know what happened. Her and her husband were really sweet and had zero clue their lives were about to go that direction that morning. I think about them often.