Brogan-Lei Partridge was just seven-years-old when she contracted the potentially fatal disease after a family holiday.
The Mirror reports that her concerned parents Craig and Aimee say they were initially sent home after A&E medics said she was suffering with what seem like a "tummy bug".
But they took her back to the emergency ward after she developed a terrible rash across her legs and doctor's diagnosed her with meningococcal meningitis and septicaemia.
Aimee was eventually told by doctors Brogan-Lei needed to have her feet and then both of her legs amputated after contracting septacemia.
The mum-of-four said: "We'd just came back from a family break when she contracted Meningitis B, Brogan-Lei was only seven at the time.
"She did not seem herself. She’d had a sleepless night and was vomiting.
"We took her to A&E but they sent us home, saying she only had a tummy bug.
"I didn't know the symptoms of meningitis at the time. But within about three hours of leaving A&E, she was rushed back in after she started getting a rash.
"When we got back in the doctors then confirmed our worst fears."
The family was forced to watch their little one struggle as she was taken into intensive care.
Although, her mum pleaded with doctors for them to find another way to save her child she was told that it was a life or death situation and Brogan needed to lose her left foot.
(The Mirror)
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