Kent student who survived horror meningitis ordeal recalls 'absolute agony' after collapsing and being rushed to hospital

A university student who contracted meningitis on a night out has told GB News she is on the road to recovery after suffering a horror ordeal. Speaking to GB News Breakfast, Keeleigh Goodwin, 21, recalled being rushed to hospital in "absolute agony" after falling seriously ill. Ms Goodwin survived meningitis following a mass outbreak in the Kent area, with hundreds of students urged to queue for antibiotics and vaccinations to protect themselves from the disease. Two students have died as a result of the outbreak, with many affected having attended Cantebury's Club Chemistry. TRENDING Stories Videos Your Say Speaking to GB News as she continues to recover from meningitis, Ms Goodwin recalled how she became ill after enjoying a night out with friends on March 12. She said: "My first symptoms came on the Friday the 13th, and I was just achy, I thought perhaps I pulled a muscle from work or something. "And then Saturday was when I was getting more and more unwell. It was getting to the point where I wasn't able to keep anything down, I wasn't able to keep liquids down, my head was just in absolute agony, but I thought perhaps it was just Covid or something." Having spoken to her mother about her symptoms, Ms Goodwin became aggressively more unwell, resulting in her collapsing and having a seizure. She added: "It just got worse and worse and then I collapsed, and I found out I'd had a seizure from that." Praising her flatmates for checking on her at the time, the student told GB News that it was because of their help that she managed to get to hospital and be treated. Ms Goodwin explained: "They were like checking on me because they could obviously hear I wasn't well, and then she found me when I collapsed, and they called the ambulance and I got taken to hospital. "I got diagnosed on the Sunday, and then for a whole week I just felt exhausted, tired, and very weak. I was napping all the time, which I never do. I'm usually full of energy, always out and about, so it really just knocked me back." LATEST DEVELOPMENTS NHS trust admits critical two-day delay in reporting meningitis outbreak Meningitis cases fall to 29 but UK health bosses urge Britons to 'remain vigilant' Meningitis cases rise to 34 as officials rush to vaccinate thousands amid Easter spread fears Asked by host Ellie Costello what she believes was the cause of her contracting meningitis, Ms Goodwin said the "only factor" she can think of is her being at the nightclub, which is at the epicentre of the outbreak. She told GB News: "The only thing that I can think is the club, because that's where the cases are being linked back to. "I was there, and there was a few times I'd go in within the month. And that's where it's believed we got it." Quizzed on whether it may have been a result of "sharing a vape" on the night out, Ms Goodwin said that the friend she had shared a vape with "did not get ill", but she did. Ms Goodwin said: "I don't think it was that because my friend who I shared the vape with, he was fine. It was only me that got really ill. "It could have been anything in the air, like someone coughing, sneezing, touching the surface of a cup, you don't know." Asked about her recovery and how she is feeling now after being diagnosed, Ms Goodwin said she is "slowly getting better" and is "trying to get out a bit more" and go for walks. She concluded: "I'm getting back to normal, I feel better and I'm walking about more. I still have some hearing problems a little bit, which I had went to an audiologist yesterday about. "But I'm getting there and trying to get myself out and about more, little walks at a time, that sort of thing." Our Standards: The GB News Editorial Charter

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