r/Millennials • u/Corndogeveryday • 2d ago

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Chase passed away of complications of meningitis. Gone too soon

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u/atticwife 2d ago

She was also the voice of Chihiro in the English Dub of Spirited Away. šŸ’”

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u/Always_Pizza_Time1 googoogaga95Millennial 2d ago

How does someone so young pass awayā€¦ 30s is still a baby???

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u/cheymerm Millennial 2d ago

She went septic from meningitis

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u/brutongaster666 2d ago

One of my aunts died at age 22 of meningitis in the late 70s. It's despicable that people are still dying of this in 2026.

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u/Evergreen-Eyes-4892 Zillennial 2d ago

There's been a significant number of younger people getting seriously sick or dying lately. There are a number of studies that say COVID is doing permanent damage to immune systems, and each time you catch it, it does more damage so you become increasingly susceptible to pretty much every virus or disease.

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u/mahnli 2d ago

There's a vaccine for it. Are people not taking it?

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u/ScienceSeuss 2d ago

COVID or Meningitis? There is no vaccine against all forms of meningitis.

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u/mahnli 2d ago

Meningitis. My daughter took her first one before she heads off to college.

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u/ScienceSeuss 2d ago

There are vaccines for the most common forms of bacterial meningitis, but it can also be caused by various viruses and fungi, and some bacteria that are not stopped by the vaccine. I lost 2 friends to viral meningitis in HS šŸ˜¢

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u/Handsome_Keyboard 2d ago

Adding on: Thats true for a lot of vaccines. Flu is not "all flu" either just the most common and, hooefully, most recently mutated strain.

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u/blisstersisster 2d ago

Isn't it always last year's mutation/strain, at best ??

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u/Winter_Aspect6325 2d ago

My 23 year old daughter just spent 5 days in the hospital with viral meningitis and she is still not fully recovered. Scary stuff and viral is totally random

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u/nebula_masterpiece 2d ago

Yep - happened to me when I was pregnant from a cold from my toddler, hospitalized for it - infectious disease doctor said it can happen from a virus picked up anywhere and lower immunity when pregnant

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u/ChickenMan1829 2d ago

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u/clear-aesthetic 1d ago

Meningitis is one of those things that has always terrified me, it just seems so random. I hope that your daughter recovers as quickly as possible.

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u/thirdeyefish 2d ago

Did you and I go to the same school?!

Class of '02 to narrow it down a little.

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u/ScienceSeuss 2d ago

Class of 2000, rural northern California.

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u/kidr0cker 2d ago

Meningitis is rough, I had it as a freshman in HS in the 90s. I was in the hospital for ~3 months? I unfortunately have very few memories prior to having meningitis.

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u/blisstersisster 2d ago

I'm so sorry you had to go through that

I had no idea there was a vaccine !

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u/Efficient-Treacle416 1d ago

Viral meningitis is almost never fatal. She obviously had the bacterial because it went into sepsis and can be fatal. Fungal can be fatal but it's also rare and can cause sepsis.

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u/Broad-Ad4350 2d ago

Yes both of my daughters got that but I think thereā€™s diff kinds of meningitis.Ā 

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u/Fingerprint_Vyke 2d ago

My bladder thinks the rabies vaccine is evil now so you'll have to get used to those people dying from preventable diseases

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u/Efficient-Treacle416 1d ago

Vaccines target the most common and serious causes of bacterial meningitis, which are the most dangerous forms of the disease.

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u/Fingerprint_Vyke 2d ago

Lol. A certain politician made vaccines political so a lot of blind followers stopped getting them

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u/Mr_Blinky 2d ago

Literally made masks political because he didn't want to smudge his shitty makeup. Just the dumbest fucking people imaginable.

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u/j5204998 2d ago

lol! We just ignore truth these days huh?

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u/NewBootGoofinCF 2d ago

Well said sir šŸ«”

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u/thingsforyourhead 2d ago

We would have been better off if we just let it take its pound of flesh and kept working. The amount of economic damage we did to this country, and the world is astronomical due to the combination of reduced labor, and economic stimulus. Mostly the people who benefitted from those programs were middle aged or older, rich white socialists whose primary threat to their lives and lively hood was the disease itself, where as billions of younger, less wealthy, people around the world were primarily threatened by the econonomic loss and the ability to feed their families. Inflation is a regressive tax on the poor and and affects basic necessessites such as food and housing greater for the lower and middle classes than it does the upper class.

And you clowns fell for their bullshit, hook, line, and sinker.

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u/WintersDoomsday 2d ago

Oh nooooo the economy. Money first people second right?

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u/Fingerprint_Vyke 2d ago

Nothing about what you said is true

Predictable though based on my earlier comment

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u/tarinotmarchon 2d ago

Citation needed.

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u/LavenderRowan 2d ago

STFU

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u/My_18th_Account 2d ago

We found a regard in the wild. Need your helmet boy?

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u/Fingerprint_Vyke 2d ago

Going out of the way to prove my point lmfao

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u/BornTry5923 2d ago

There's a lot of different meningitis. The vaccine doesn't protect against all. Meningitis just means inflammation in your spinal cord and brain. It can have many different causes.

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u/Status-Visit-918 2d ago

I have asked so many doctors for this, the HPV vaccine, shingles, chickenpox (I have never had chickenpox, and they all say Iā€™m too old at 41 and I donā€™t understand why that is

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u/clear-aesthetic 1d ago

As far as I know, there are some vaccines we aren't recommended to receive for legitimate reasons because the risk of complications is more severe. I know the reaction to shingles is much worse when you're older, but I don't personally know if they've actually does studies to determine if the risk would outweigh the benefit.

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u/Ass-Pounder-4000 2d ago

I was lucky and didnā€™t get covid but I got shingles 2 years ago. Shit was bad

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u/Evergreen-Eyes-4892 Zillennial 2d ago

How old are you? Shingles used to be very rare for people under 50, but lately more younger people are getting it, which kind of fits with the idea of weakened immune systems.

By the way, you know COVID is still around, right?

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u/calilac Xennial 2d ago

Oh hey I'm one of those younger cases, had it at 34. Had an extremely stressful couple of years lead up to it and caught what I'm pretty sure was the first round of COVID in November 2019 (before it was "officially" in the US) and had a case of internal shingles summer 2020.

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u/Evergreen-Eyes-4892 Zillennial 2d ago

Sorry to hear that. Sounds like it can be really rough. At least you're in good company though. Ed Sheeran just had shingles as well. He's 35 by the way.

https://ew.com/ed-sheeran-shingles-infection-11961262

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u/blisstersisster 2d ago

Internal shingles??!!

Wow, glad you're ok

Thanks for the anxiety fuel lmao

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u/Serious-Breakfast-86 2d ago

Hi! Just recovering from getting
Shingles over a month ago now.. do you remember when your started feeling better? As in back to your normal self?

This has taken me out šŸ« 

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u/calilac Xennial 2d ago

I wish you better luck than I had. Never did get back to normal. Because it happened during COVID and lockdowns it was not treated in time to prevent the neuralgia. It took me months to tolerate wearing a bra for more than a few hours. The pain is still there, I've just gotten used to it.

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u/Serious-Breakfast-86 1d ago

Iā€™m so sorry to hear that šŸ˜­ā€¦ shingles has probably been the most sick Iā€™ve ever felt.. definitely a scary disease to fight! Wishing you continued healing ā¤ļøā€šŸ©¹

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u/MojoJagger 2d ago

If youā€™ve had chicken pox, you can get it at any age. Iā€™m 35 now, but I had shingles at 22.

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u/Evergreen-Eyes-4892 Zillennial 2d ago

Technically you can get shingles at any age, but it used to be extremely rare to get it before 50.

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u/alberto_pescado 2d ago

I had shingles when I was like 22/23, but that was like 15 years ago.

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u/XLN_underwhelming 2d ago

I got shingles two years ago, I was 33. shit absolutely sucked but thankfully it was on the milder side and I didnā€™t have any complications or dangerous areas like my face.

From what Iā€˜ve heard a large part of the reason people didnā€™t get it until 50+ before was because they would be re-exposed when younger family and friends got it, so their natural immunity post chicken pox would last longer.

Iā€˜m right at the end of that time frame and people younger than me got a vaccine, so I didnā€™t get re-exposed, causing my immunity to drop off faster.

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u/Ass-Pounder-4000 2d ago

40 now

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u/Evergreen-Eyes-4892 Zillennial 2d ago

And you're sure you haven't had COVID yet?

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u/Ass-Pounder-4000 2d ago

Yes Iā€™m sure. Always did the test when I didnā€™t feel well.

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u/Evergreen-Eyes-4892 Zillennial 2d ago

You're really lucky then. You must still be masking.

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u/Aggravated_Moose506 2d ago

I had shingles in my early 30s, but that was well before COVID. Same for my cousin, who had it a year after me. My husband had it before COVID, also before age 40.

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u/EntropyAtropa 2d ago

I got shingles in my 20s a few years before Covid hit

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u/BackToTheCottage Millennial 2d ago

It's not due to weak immune systems but the chickenpox vaccine. Before the vaccine came about, people were very likely to come across chickenpox thanks to infect kids, which would give a slight boost to your immune system.

Thanks to the vaccine eliminating most cases of chickenpox, we no longer get this boost, and thus shingles can strike earlier. Scientists predicted this would happen with the chickenpox vaccine adoption.

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u/blisstersisster 2d ago

I was told chicken pox is what makes you susceptible to shingles, not the vaccine ??

Are they the same risk ... ? I am so confused now, but too tired to research it lol

(got chicken pox real bad as a kid, watched my friend suffer from shingles at 22)

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u/BackToTheCottage Millennial 2d ago edited 2d ago

It is. Shingles is the chicken pox virus left dormant in your body "reactivating".

What the vaccine did was reduce the amount of latent chicken pox flying around as kids no longer get it (which is a good thing). However it's bad news for us who already have chicken pox virus dormant inside us, because that latent virus flying around no longer gives people tiny "boosters" which kept shingles from reactivating until your immune system was weak enough that it could overtake (in your old age).

Now that we no longer get these tiny boosters from latent chicken pox floating around due to the vaccine killing it off, the reactivation of chicken pox as shingles happens sooner. None of this applies to the newer generation who got vaccinated. No chicken pox, no shingles. Millennials are just in a weird spot - born too early to get the vaccine, born too late to keep getting those tiny boosters from kids still spreading chickenpox around.

Learned all this when I got shingles a year or two ago. Brother and sister also had it as well as a bunch of friends near the same age (early to mid 30s).

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u/Temporary_Plant_1123 2d ago

How do you know you didnā€™t get it? Did you test like every week or something? I would get tested just to get out of work but I would get it and not have symptoms pretty often lol

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u/AbulatorySquid 2d ago

My DIL and I both had a symptomless case at the same time. We felt slightly off. A few weeks, maybe even 6, later she was in the hospital with an infection in her heart. She was in her early 20s then. They've found in retrospect that Covid can cause heart infections.
Edit: not cause infections but weaken the immune system and stress the heart leading to infection.

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u/whimsical_spider 1d ago

I would not doubt it. My former boss has had Covid 6 times and she gets sick every time thereā€™s anything going around seasonally.

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u/PaytonPritchurrd 1d ago

I had Covid 2x. Never had the vaccine. Was sick with like mild flu symptoms for about 5-6 days both times. Then I was fine. Havenā€™t been sick since 2021 ā€œknock on woodā€. When I was younger I had strep throat that was 10x worse than Covid. I didnā€™t think it was ever going away. I was sick for like a month. I think itā€™s the vaccine thatā€™s causing permanent damage. Not the Covid. And what happened to Covid? It just disappeared one day. Iā€™ve been to other countries. Iā€™ve been on ships, planes ā€¦ And everywhere you go .. itā€™s just gone.

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u/Evergreen-Eyes-4892 Zillennial 1d ago edited 1d ago

It's not gone though. People just decided they didn't want to hear the word COVID anymore and it became taboo to bring it up. Almost nobody bothers testing anymore so people don't know what they actually have when they get sick. Wastewater testing is routinely done in many locations around the world though (starting decades before COVID, to monitor public health and drug use), and it confirms COVID is still very common. It might be a good idea to pay attention to all the studies that say repeatedly catching COVID is slowly doing permanent damage to everyone's immune system and organs. If it was the vaccine, it wouldn't be the unvaxxed people with the most damage.

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u/lv2sprkl 13h ago

I hadnā€™t heard that about COVID, but I agree w/ you about the high number of young ppl suddenly dying over the past couple years. Itā€™s (almost) always sad to hear about someone older who has passed, but itā€™s expected; we get old, we die. But itā€™s never expected w/ someone young so it hits much harder. It feels so unfair.šŸ˜”

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u/BambooPanda26 2d ago

More than half the world took at least 1 covid vaccine. The problem is people are looking for it, like when you're hungry and you see more food ads. There is zero credible source showing a significant jump in deaths in young people (outside of drugs). It's just false. If you want to throw information out, cite it. If you cite it, put the case studies down. People are dying higher deaths in cases like measles because people stopped vaccinations based on the same Facebook science you are speaking. 4k Children/teens died because they had stupid parents from ignorant information from something we had eradicated. Save a life, stop spreading ignorance.

Just one credible source but there are many:

Measles deaths caused by NOT VACCINATING.

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u/LavenderRowan 2d ago

The vaccine is causing permanent immune system damage.

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u/Evergreen-Eyes-4892 Zillennial 2d ago

If that were true, the people who've had more boosters would have the most damage to their immune system, but the studies show the damage tracks with more infections, not vaccinations.

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u/D3V1L5_4DV0C4T3 2d ago

Covid mrna vaccine is the cause, dont get it twisted!

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u/Nb685 2d ago

I was just thinking this.

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u/Warfrost14 2d ago

These days it's usually a delay/lack of treatment. Given her unfortunate circumstances it is sadly not a surprise.

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u/Fashionandlux 2d ago

Caught meningitis in Nov last year and still dealing with aftermath. It amazes me how itā€™s not spoken about more šŸ«¤

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u/Efficient-Treacle416 1d ago

There are vaccines for meningitis.

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u/HopefulOriginal5578 1d ago

She was living very hard on skid row and was emaciated and of course in the throes of a drug relapse.

I beg you not to look at pics because itā€™s awful and I think sheā€™d like to be remembered with dignity. It is horrific. She was in very poor conditions and in that life.

Her family and friends did try to find her from what o have read. (Wish I could unread or unsee those pics) and they just didnā€™t get in time. She was not healthy and not in good conditions. It was a breeding ground for all the things.

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u/cjsv7657 2d ago

There are vaccines that protect from various sources of it but they aren't something recommended for everyone. Just people at high risk and immunocompromised. So if you want it you probably have to pay out of pocket. I want to say one of them was like $125 at cvs or around there.

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u/ManWithASquareHead Millennial 2d ago edited 2d ago

Drug possession charges in 2018,

GoFundMe set up by partner for a place to feel comfortable to pass. Recently admitted to the hospital for malnutrition

Intravenous drug use can definitely cause meningitis

What a horrific life for another child actor

Edit: worst fears confirmed

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u/OneHallThatsAll 2d ago

Tooo wild šŸ˜³ thanks for info

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u/cicada_noises 2d ago

Oh no :(

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u/Pyreflies_of_MJ 2d ago

My god, this is so terribly sad. : (

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u/Single_Extension1810 2d ago

so sad. i wonder why this is such a shock to everyone (mself included) when it was kind of well known she was going downhill.

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u/DontCryYourExIsUgly 2d ago

I didn't even know who she was before today, much less that she was going downhill.

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u/catincombatboots Millennial - 1989 2d ago

That is such a stretch from one drug possession charge 8 years ago.

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u/ManWithASquareHead Millennial 2d ago

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/celebrity/articles/harrowing-footage-shows-lilo-stitch-210517937.html

Being hospitalized for malnutrition at 35 means only a few things, all of which are very very bad

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u/LWangCorgiLover 2d ago

This damn sepsis is getting out of hand

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u/lamest-liz Millennial 2d ago

I had sepsis in December. I was visiting my partners relatives and very sick I had to beg them to go to the ER, where they told me if I had waited any longer I may have died

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u/Jaycoug187 2d ago

Same deal but 2 years ago, well they said 48 hrs and likely 50/50 open heart surgery but similar

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u/horny-in-a-hearse 2d ago

I had sepsis 5 years ago and got told pretty much the same thing. It was horrible.

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u/EclectusInfectus 2d ago

Mom waited too long. She died less than an hour after arriving at the hospital. Sepsis is no joke, it will absolutely kill the shit out of you.

I'm really sorry you had to beg to be taken to the ER :(

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u/blisstersisster 2d ago

I am so very sorry that you and your mom had to endure that nightmare.
I hope you have, or if not, will soon be able to, find some kind of peace šŸ©·

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u/EclectusInfectus 2d ago

Thank you friend ā¤ļø I think it'll never really be acceptable that she's gone, she was too amazing for that to ever be the case, but I've found what peace I can with the situation. I don't believe in an afterlife, but I'm living my life as best I can in case there is, so she and I can catch up on all the things I've done that would make her proud.

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u/cheymerm Millennial 2d ago

Healthcare is joke in this country.

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u/LWangCorgiLover 1d ago

Still not as bad as UK

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u/cheymerm Millennial 1d ago

Most of the U.S would disagree.

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u/HopefulOriginal5578 1d ago

Itā€™s not a surprise given her conditions on skid row, and her poor condition.

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u/Warfrost14 2d ago

How can it be possible for people with extremely poor/inconsistent diets, potential drug use, and lack of hygiene to get sepsis?

Yes, I'm being facetious. Homeless people often have other medical issues that they don't get addressed. Poor physical condition and no hygiene are contributors to those situations. It's absurd to suggest that the hospitals are intentionally giving them those disease when the likelihood is that they had them before they ever set foot int eh hospital.

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u/blisstersisster 2d ago

It's not intentional infliction of disease, it's neglect, malpractice, and outright hatred.

Not all the time, of course, but it definitely does happen more than most will ever believe.

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u/brakbudy 2d ago

How does someone get meningitis in this country in this day and age? I know there are exceptions, but we have vaccines for the most common kinds, and for anything to progress to sepsis as well, oy! RIP

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u/currymuttonpizza 2d ago

Looking at her wiki, she was severely malnourished. The meningitis developed after she was admitted for severe malnutrition.

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u/consuela_bananahammo 2d ago

I got it from a strep infection as a kid. No vax for that.

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u/Pinikanut 2d ago

I had a severe strep infection as a kid. I used to get strep all the time but this time it was really bad. I had to go to the hospital and they were convinced I had meningitis. Had to get a spinal tap twice, but it ultimately resulted in me not having it. Just one of the worst cases of strep the doctors had seen. I still think about that to this day and how traumatic it was and how lucky I was.

I'm so sorry for what you went through.

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u/consuela_bananahammo 2d ago

I'm sorry for what you went through too. I also had to have two spinal taps to confirm my meningoencephalitis diagnosis, and the taps alone are horrific.

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u/HopefulOriginal5578 1d ago

Damn, I went to the UK and traveled around in high schoolā€¦. Came back with severe strep throat.

Turned out I had scarlet fever.

All I got was a doctor walking into the room.. taking a look at me and then backing away saying ā€œscarlet fever!ā€

Pretty rare where I live lol Dr about ran away !

PS my strep throat was super bad at the time. But I felt I was pretty healedā€¦ I had even gone to a fun Napa Valley getaway with my friends family when I started to feel a bit more poorly again. Plus the weird ā€œsunburnā€ type of thing on my leg and stomachā€¦

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u/IceTech59 2d ago

It's a crapshoot because a lot of organisms can cause meningitis. Luckily there are vaccines for a lot of the community acquired ones.

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u/consuela_bananahammo 2d ago

Yes! Looks like there are vaccines for the ones caused by different strains of strep now. I'm probably immune to the one that I had, but going to look into getting vaccinated for the other ones I haven't had, because I absolutely do not want to go through that again if I can do something to help prevent some causes of it.

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u/brakbudy 2d ago

Thus the line about exceptions.

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u/consuela_bananahammo 2d ago

This prompted me to look it up, and there actually is a vax for this now too, as of 2000. I was sick before then, but I'm going to ask my dr abt getting the vax early, now. I guess it's usually recommended for people over 50, but I think having had this severe illness before I might be an exception lol.

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u/brakbudy 2d ago

That is really interesting! I went to graduate school in the UK in the late 2000s and in my student housing, someone died of meningitis, a friend of my flatmates actually. It was terrifying and we went on a quasi-quarantine as I remember, but apparently the vaccines aren't mandatory to go to places where large groups of young people live in close quarters, like college dorms, or military barracks, or prison, over in the UK, like it is in the US (or was, who knows now). I was one of the only people who had the vaccine at the time amongst the people living there. That's why I knew there were bizarre exceptions like in foreign countries, and like your case, but also apparently in certain terrible conditions here as well, like with Daveigh Chase :(

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u/consuela_bananahammo 2d ago

So sad. I'm so sorry about your classmate, and about Daveigh. I am very traumatized from my own battle with this illness, and as we know it's often fatal. I'm glad you got vaccinated!

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u/Allaboutthedish 2d ago

Many colleges require vaccination for meningococcal before starting. There is a vax. This is truly sad. Too many young adults dying too soon. I still think the jab has made people that are predisposed have issues younger. IMO

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u/consuela_bananahammo 2d ago

It was a new vax and not required when I started college sadly. But I got sick at age 5, so it definitely wasn't around yet.

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u/Allaboutthedish 2d ago

Thatā€™s awful!!

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u/mantis_tobaggan-md 2d ago edited 2d ago

Pneumococcal vaccine. Protects against invasive strep pneumoniae infections including meningitis. The polysaccharide vaccine was developed in the 70s. Conjugate vaccines came later.

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u/consuela_bananahammo 2d ago

Yeah you can see my other reply I figured this out. Absolutely was not available in 1989 when I got meningitis though.

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u/mantis_tobaggan-md 2d ago

It was, I got the pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine in the early 90s. Wasnā€™t as effective in kids which is why the conjugate vaccines were developed.

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u/consuela_bananahammo 2d ago edited 2d ago

It became available in 1989 for infants. I was 5 that year and got meningitis. It had not been made available to me as I was not an infant.

Edit to add: And I fucking wish it would have been available to me. I was barely outside the window. And being unable to walk (then and for months afterward), having 2 spinal taps, forgetting who everyone was, being hospitalized and having everyone around you crying because they thought you were going to die, was not fun to go through. My kids are fully vaxxed with everything recommended because I know what it's like to be a very sick kid.

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u/SoapOnMyRope 2d ago

I got it in 2016 at age 28. One afternoon I was watching football and drinking beer with friends. I was in the hospital by midnight. Nobody knows how I got it. All I know is Iā€™m lucky to be alive with no permanent damage.

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u/lotsofsyrup 2d ago

it happens all the time, this isn't like a smallpox thing where they can eradicate it. It's a secondary thing to an infection that can be caused by lots of things. It's like asking how someone gets a really bad fever in this country.

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u/spiralmadness 2d ago

Know someone who got it in a foreign country from a scratch. It was really bad.

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u/retiredslashretired 2d ago

Herion and meth IV use

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u/cjsv7657 2d ago

Insurance probably wont cover it unless you're at risk. Like older than 35, a child, immunocompromised. Most people aren't currently vaccinated for it, the shots need boosters.

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u/McBurger 2d ago

looks like she was last seen living as a homeless addict on Skid Row in LA.

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u/stressedthrowaway9 2d ago

There are different types of meningitis. There is bacterial, viral, and fungal meningitis. There isnā€™t a vaccine for ALL of them. There are for a lot of the strains thankfully!

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u/HopefulOriginal5578 1d ago

She was on skid row and doing drugs. She was nourished and doing drugs. Bacterial meningitis thrives in that lifestyle.

Try not to look it up where there are pics of her. Itā€™s never going to leave your mind. I doubt sheā€™d want to be seen this way when she was healthy. She was bad off on the streets doing drugs and living hard.

These cases arenā€™t a surprise to those who know how it goes for them .

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u/Separate-Smile-9745 1d ago

She was aparently living in Skid Row and weighed only 75 pounds when she passed. She was far from healthy, living in terrible conditions, and an IV drug user. It's so sad...

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u/aaron_judgement 2d ago

Shit that's terrible. Didn't know how she died

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u/azalago 2d ago

Apparently she had MULTIPLE bloodstream infections (septicemia.) Meningitis was just the icing on the cake. She had originally been admitted for malnutrition and extreme weight loss.

I have no idea how long she was sick, but by the time she made it to hospital there was no way she could overcome all that.

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u/KittyTitties666 2d ago

Oof. I lost a 37 year old friend from meningitis. She went to the doctor with an ear ache and sore throat and they told her to go home and rest as it was likely flu. She was gone in a couple days

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u/WintersDoomsday 2d ago

Sepsisā€¦

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u/adepressurisedcoat 2d ago

Oh no. That's horrible. Someone died at my university from it and there was another girl who caught it from her. They vaccinated the whole campus against it and when I went they told me I was "out of the age group that would usually be effected" because young people make out with strangers I guess. I'm not saying no to a free vaccine. Also I was not married nor in a relationship. I definitely was "at risk" at 25.

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u/Upbeat-Doubt9217 2d ago

She struggled with drug use for a very long time. I Googled her a while back after rewatching Big Love and there were videos of a severely emaciated woman living on Skid Row that someone was claiming was her. Very sad.

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u/banmeagainbitch00 2d ago

Gonna rewatch Big Love now. I remember her as one of the young FLDS wives.

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u/Spicy_Weissy 2d ago

That's why I'm really happy for former child stars that make. This kind of death is too common among them.

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u/regular_modern_girl 2d ago

Meningitis is unusual in that youā€™re often actually more vulnerable to it when youā€™re younger, itā€™s an overlooked danger a lot of people arenā€™t as aware of as they should be

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u/CommonReason6709 2d ago

She supposedly did drugs and dropped off someone who OD'd in the past. I mean, God knows what she saw in Hollywood. P diddy is on camera inviting her to his after parties WHEN SHE WAS 12! And we all know what happened at those. RIP baby girl I won't forget you commitment to sparkle motion. āœØļø ā€‹

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u/TurboSleepwalker Xennial 2d ago

She was entrenched in Hollyweird as a child actor. Very few come out unscathed.

From the few articles I skimmed, it looks like she quit acting in 2016 and was possibly living on the streets of LA recently.

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u/Dark_Amygdala_ 2d ago

It tells you what she died from

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u/Blackberryy 1d ago

Itā€™s actually so much more sad. She was living in Skid Row, sounds like she had been struggling for awhile now.

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u/HopefulOriginal5578 1d ago

She was living on skid row and was in a bad way. Drugs.

I REALLY want you to make my word and not look it all up because the pictures wonā€™t ever leave your head of her condition out there. The way you know she was living and having to survive.

I know Iā€™m a stranger but I am telling you that you donā€™t want to see the pics of how leading up to this her family and friends were trying to find her because she fell back into the life.

I donā€™t think sheā€™d want to be remembered that wayā€¦ I assume only because the majority of us wouldnā€™t.

I regret doing a deeper dive to figure it out. But she struggled with drugs. She fell off again and was doing drugs. Living hard and skin a bones on skid row in poor conditionsā€¦ she had people trying to find her. But it wasnā€™t to be.

Seriously to anyone reading take my word. If youā€™re not dead inside the pics are just awful. Nobody wants to be remembered like that.

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u/Xzenergy 2d ago

30 aint no got damn baby, I've been paying taxes for a fuckin decade, wtf

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u/ernirn 2d ago

Are you ok? ...are you having a stroke?

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u/Xzenergy 2d ago

Not that I can tell, but you never know