Levana's story

By Jane Edmonds, Nursery World, 26 August 2004

In the third of four articles on meningitis, Jane Edmonds looks at the after-effects of the disease. She talks to one family for whom this autumn's Meningitis Trust Toddle Waddle will be particularly poignant Levana Hanson was four months old when her parents had to make the agonising decision to amputate her legs. Levana had meningococcal septicaemia, and without amputation she would almost certainly have died.

In the third of four articles on meningitis, Jane Edmonds looks at the after-effects of the disease. She talks to one family for whom this autumn's Meningitis Trust Toddle Waddle will be particularly poignant...

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