Dakota was born September 19, 1995 in Las Vegas, Nevada at UMC Hospital. He weighed 6 pounds 8 ounces and was the most beautiful baby boy I have ever seen. I was told he was perfectly healthy. When we went to take him home I noticed something seemed to be wrong with him. He wouldn’t look at me when I talked to him. He didn’t move at all. So I took him to his doctor who said he was fine and give him some time. About an hour after we got home he had a grandmal seizure. I rushed him to the clinic in Mesquite and they told me to take him to the hospital in St. George. When we got there they gave him Phenobarbital and did a CAT scan. He started to get little red bumps like a heat rash. The doctors came in and told me he had septo-optic dysplasia

Dakota developed a fever of 106.8. Within 20 minutes he was blistered on over 90% of his body. They called life flight to transport him but life flight went to Phoenix instead of St. George so they had to take him by ambulance to Las Vegas Trauma Center. When they got him there they were doing so many things to him I didn’t know what was going on. I was only 19 years old, I didn’t understand and they made me leave the room. An hour later they let me back in. They had broken the Blisters and had tubes coming out of him everywhere. They couldn’t get reading on him because his temperature was so high so they put him in a drug induced coma on life support. They gave him so many different drugs and didn’t tell me all of them.

I couldn’t hold him for three months. He wasn’t getting better. I finally told them “ Let God take him back.” They finally let me hold him until he died 8 ½ hours later. I told him don’t hold on just for Mommy. I would be ok and go back to God. Dakota went to Heaven on January 6th, 1996 at 8:17pm. When he left, he let out one Breath and one tear to say thank you Mommy. I love you Dakota!