A man who is running the length of the UK within 30 days after nearly dying from meningitis as a teenager says he feels “unstoppable.”<\/p>\n
Jack Stewart, from Bristol, is currently running the equivalent of an ultra marathon – every day from John O’ Groats, in Scotland, to Land’s End in Cornwall to raise money for Meningitis Research Foundation.<\/p>\n
The 30-year-old was initially misdiagnosed with a virus as a 14-year-old in 2009, and a day later his symptoms worsened and he nearly died from meningitis. <\/p>\n
“It’s been so overwhelming,” said Jack’s mum, Shelly. “It’s just brought a lot of emotion back from 16 years ago and the support is just unbelievable.”<\/p>\n
Shelly said Jack was sent home ill from school one day in 2009, with symptoms including “feeling delirious, vomiting and not wanting the light on.”<\/p>\n
Doctors told Shelly Jack had a virus but a day later, Jack was rushed to Bristol Children’s Hospital where he was diagnosed with meningitis. <\/p>\n
“They told us it would be a 24-hour fight between meningitis and the medication that they’ve given him and they said it’s basically who wins,” Shelly said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man who is running the length of the UK within 30 days after nearly dying from meningitis…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":747534,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[59,102,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-747533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-gb","tag-health","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=747533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/747534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=747533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=747533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=747533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}