MORE than £2,000 for charity has been raised by the family of a two-year-old meningitis survivor in the year following his near-death experience.
Coby Knighton was rushed to hospital aged just 15 months in March last year after mum Michaela spotted a blackening rash on her son’s back during a bath.
At Barnsley Hospital he was diagnosed with meningococcal meningitis and septicaemia, an inflammation of the spinal cord and brain lining which causes blood poisoning.
Coby was transferred to Sheffield Children’s Hospital, where he was given a 50 per cent chance of survival. But after eight different medications, time on a ventilator and in a coma, Coby is well on his road to recovery. His relatives have been hard at work trying to raise money for charities Meningitis Now and the Sheffield Children’s Hospital, with more fundraising events - including the possibility of a parachute jump - on the horizon.
Read more in this weeks Barnsley Chronicle
