Anything I write will be inadequate.
Imagine getting a call that your college son had died in his apartment alone. He thought he had the flu. Turns out he had contracted meningococcal disease (often referred to as meningitis). Then you find out the disease is preventable. The CDC recommends a meningococcal vaccine for kids ages 11-18 but many parents think of vaccines as something only their young children receive.
I spent a recent weekend with parents (mostly moms), survivors and siblings of meningococcal disease. My role was to teach them how to use social media for their advocacy efforts. Their purpose in gathering was to not only gain valuable advocacy skills but also to move a bit further down the path of healing. Not the physical kind of the healing, the emotional kind, the kind that is a lot less text book.
