On Friday 13th April 2001, which was Good Friday, our son Andrew came home from working away as steel fabricator country wide.He was feeling unwell with flu like symptoms in the evening of this day.The following morning he was complaining of stomach pains my husband stayed home with him whilst I continued to go shopping for the Easter weekend.I hadn't been gone long, when I received a call on my mobile to let me know that my husband had called the doctor as Andrew was complaining of chest pains. He was then admitted to hospital,but with an hour of being on the ward he deteriated rapidly.He was sedated and sent to the ITU ward,where it was confirmed after lumbar punture he had Meningitis We were kept in contact by the consultants and aneatheists.They told us that Andrew had Meningitis it was like a bombshell out of the blue. They kept him sedated until they started to decrease it on the Sunday in antisipation of him coming round but it was not to be. We were told they would be doing a brain stem test later in the evening. This was to no avail and he was declared brain dead. He was a fit 21yr old who used to play rugby,we are always told it is young children this happens to and it makes me angry at this. It just isn't fair that a young man who had every thing to live for should be taken this way