Livia Wilson died in 2022 after contracting meningococcal meningitis – a life-threatening bacterial infection that can cause meningitis, sepsis, or both.
She complained of a headache days after returning home to Woodthorpe from a music festival in Manchester the previous weekend.
Her mother Alison Goude told The Press she thought Livia had “overdone it” after going straight back to work at Lucia’s Restaurant, in Swinegate.
“She had some paracetamol, a cup of tea and went to bed. She said she’d do a Covid test in the morning. And that was it.”
Livia went to sleep on Wednesday, June 15, 2022, and never woke up.
It was later revealed through tests that Livia died from meningococcal type B meningitis.
Alison said a severe headache is a main symptom of the illness, which leads to the swelling of the meninges – the lining of the brain and the spinal cord – caused, mainly, by germs entering the body.
But she never thought a headache could be fatal.
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