@misslindabeaz Just to give an expiencense of another anxious mum who's son had viral meningitis at 2m old and again at 4m old.
I was always hyper vigilant about fevers and rash and on the day I took him to my local ED I almost let my nan convince me it wasn't that serious. He had fever, was larathagic and had reduced feeds but no rash at that time. My anxiety was screaming at me something was seriously wrong so we took him to Ed fully expecting me to be over reacting and he just had a minor visua or cold...in the 10min it took us to drive to ED the full body rash broke out on him, I went from the car to the ED reception into a room with peads and nurses in the space of 10m minutes because they were worried it was bacterial. IV line having to go from his forehead because his wrists were not accessible due to how dehydrated he was. They started him an antibiotics via the IV while running the test to see if was bacterial and setting us up to be transferred to the children hospital.
We spent a week in the childrens hospital before being discharged. He had 3 lumpar punctures, he'd scans, EKG or ECG one of the two. And iv antibiotics for the majority of his stay. It was caused by Entro visual, a very common virus that causes the cold/hand foot and mouth but it managed to travel into his spinal fluid.
But after a week we were home, no long lasting effects it seemed.
It happened again at 4ms old basically the same, but this time drs slightly more concerned as it's so rare to get it twice, let alone from the same virus again. He did expirence seizures this time but after 8 days was discharged on anti seizure meds till he was 1 year old.
He's now 5 years old, no long lasting side effects, not on meds and meet all his development goals. They still don't know why he got it twice as we had his immune system tested and that was fine.
Take each day as it comes mum and try n get some sleep and take care of yourself, he doesn't remember any of it but I do and I still remember his screams of the lumbar punctures or the IV placement but then I look at home now and he's my foot forward son who seems to not be afraid of anything these days.