Years before she competed on The Bachelor, Daisy Kent was diagnosed with meningitis, which nearly killed her.

It was one in all several health battles the 25-twelve months-feeble has confronted, besides her struggles with Lyme disease and Ménière’s disease, which she spoke about with season 28 big name Joey Graziadei on the courting demonstrate.

Now, Kent is sharing extra minute print about contracting meningitis—which is triggered by irritation of tissues finish to the mind and spinal wire—when she was a 19-twelve months-feeble freshman at San Diego Command College.

“I had this shocking effort happening my backbone; I felt esteem knives were chopping into my abet and down my neck,” the Minnesota-born influencer recalled to Us Weekly in an interview printed July 10. “There was some extent the place they didn’t mediate I used to be gonna develop it.”

Kent was one in all several college students on the college who was contaminated in 2017.

“I went to mattress within the unlit and I had a little of little bit of a headache, after which I aroused from sleep at esteem doubtless 3 a.m. and my head was pounding, so I took a bunch of Tylenol,” she said in a 2023 TikTok video. “My head was throbbing so sinful, I couldn't even open my eyes.”

Kent made it to class, the place she felt a “shocking effort” down her backbone when she tried to expose her head. She went to the sanatorium but was told she greatest had a migraine, so she went abet to her dorm.

Then her condition got speedily worse. “I used to be laying in my mattress and all of a unexpected, I physically would possibly perhaps well not switch esteem any fragment of my physique,” Kent said in her TikTok. “So a guy that lived on my flooring picked me up, carried me downstairs and my roommate and her brother brought me to a a good deal of sanatorium.”

On the 2d scientific center, the Minnesota native underwent scientific tests while indifferent being unable to switch her physique. “Then a doctor comes abet in and he's in esteem a plump HAZMAT swimsuit and he's esteem, 'All people has to particular this room.'”

Then things got speedily worse. “I used to be laying in my mattress and all of a unexpected, I physically would possibly perhaps well not switch esteem any fragment of my physique,” Kent said. “So a guy that lived on my flooring picked me up, carried me downstairs and my roommate and her brother brought me to a a good deal of sanatorium.”

On the 2d scientific center, the actual fact big name underwent scientific tests while indifferent being unable to switch her physique. “Then a doctor comes abet in and he's in esteem a plump HAZMAT swimsuit and he's esteem, 'All people has to particular this room.'”

She underwent a spinal tap and after extra attempting out confirmed she indeed had meningitis, she was handled within the ICU. “They were giving me so considerable morphine,” she recalled, “And actually, nothing would stop the effort. I've by no arrangement been in that considerable effort in my existence. I actually belief I used to be going to die.”

At one point, she belief she did when she the effort made her lose consciousness. “Every little thing goes entirely black,” she said, “and I used to be esteem, 'I correct died.'”

Within the intervening time, docs outlined the problem to her mother. “They sit her down they assuredly expose her I'm ample sick,” Kent said, “and my white blood cell depend is so high that there's a possibility I would possibly perhaps well not develop it.”

With the help of antibiotics, Kent recovered. However, the ordeal took a super toll on her physique. “I actually lost 17 kilos in five days,” she recalled. “I went dwelling and when my little sister hugged me, she belief I used to be gonna snap in half. I used to be so frail, I couldn't even stroll up the steps or stroll 10 toes.”

Days later, she had to be readmitted to the sanatorium after developing an an infection and spent one other week there. “But I made it.” she said. “I didn't die. I'm right here.”