LET THE GAMES BEGIN
Jul 17, 2022
3 minutes
By Keeley Henderson and Megan Rowe
ERICA BURLEIGH
‘I’M DOING IT FOR MUM’
Marjorie Burleigh was keeping vigil by her critically ill daughter Erica’s bedside when doctors at Hobart Private Hospital warned her to prepare for the worst.
What 17-year-old Erica initially thought was the flu had turned out to be something far more sinister.
“They gave me a lumbar puncture when I was in a coma, and it came back that it was meningitis. The doctors told my parents I probably wouldn’t survive,” Erica, from Kingston, Tas, tells New Idea.
Meningococcal meningitis is a rare but
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