Brenda Davis and her 16-year-old son used to pick wildflowers together. Now, she picks them alone to leave at his grave every morning. Landyn Ferris, who had a form of epilepsy called Dravet Syndrome, died on May 14 after being found alone and unresponsive in a sensory room at school, Davis says.
She is pushing for answers as to how that could have happened, but in the meantime is also urging all parents to “hold their babies tight.” “I’m broken,” she wrote in a statement read at a press conference Tuesday by a vice-president of the Ontario Autism Coalition. “My boy is gone.
His laugh is a memory. His light snuffed out too soon. I will forever be haunted.
” Davis received a text from Trenton High School that day saying there was an emergency, and she tried to call back but it didn’t go through so she rushed over to the school, she said. Story continues below advertisement “Minutes later, I walked into the classroom to find my son on a stretcher, receiving CPR, his hand hanging to the side, fingers already blue,” Davis wrote in her statement. “That’s when it hit me.
This isn’t seizure intervention. This is resuscitation.” View image in full screen The mother of a 16-year-old with special needs who died at his eastern Ontario high school last month says she is broken because her boy is gone, and she wants everyone to hold their own children tight.
Landyn Ferris, right, is seen in an undated family handout photo with his mother Brenda Davis. THE CANADI.
