By Mary Argue of RNZ Penny Taylor was in an induced coma, "frying from the inside". The 36-year-old mother-of-two had been rushed to hospital after being discovered unconscious. There, she was given 30 minutes to live and a two percent chance of survival. As her organs failed, her three and seven-year-old children were told to say goodbye. It was November 2009 and prior to her collapse, Taylor only knew she had a vomiting bug. In reality, it was meningococcal septicaemia. Meningitis covers a range of serious and life-threatening diseases involving inflammation of the meninges - the membrane lining the brain and spinal cord. In Taylor, the meningococcal bacterial infection led to blood poisoning, which can escalate rapidly, damaging blood vessels and organs - and ultimately left her a double-amputee.…