National Meningitis Association

Mount Holyoke student speaks on National Meningitis Association panel at Columbia University

Mount Holyoke student speaks on National Meningitis Association panel at Columbia University

BY GABBY RAYMOND ’20

When Sorcha McCrohan ’21 was 11, her mother Janet fell ill with a disease her doctors struggled to diagnose. Janet’s symptoms aligned with meningitis: headaches, a high fever and a stiff neck. By the time they figured it out, she had fallen into a coma and died of bacterial meningitis.