Advocate Profile, Robbin Thibodeaux

Robbin Thibodeaux’s 19-year-old son, Thomas Kent, was an active college student with a passion for surfing when he contracted a serious and deadly bacterial infection, called meningococcal disease. On Christmas Eve 2005, Robbin received a call urging her to rush to the hospital because her son was falling in and out of consciousness. Robbin had spoken to her son, who had been sick, earlier in the week, but thought he just had the flu. Once she arrived at the hospital, Robbin learned that Thomas had been diagnosed with meningococcal disease. Thomas passed away on Christmas day, just hours after experiencing his first symptoms.