Her mother turned to e-cigarettes because she thought they were safer than regular tobacco. They ended up killing her.
When Mary Kerrie returned home, she developed a ragged cough, and was initially diagnosed with pneumonia.published by her college's newspaper, the Pepperdine University Graphic.
"My mother groaned between coughs, 'I'm never smoking again; I'm throwing out all of my e-cigarettes and weed pens,'" she wrote. "My father, a doctor who is all too familiar with the dangers of vaping, responded to her declaration of quitting by saying, 'Good, Mary. There are some things that are precious, like your vision and your breath, and you just can’t hurt those things.'"Davis said she texted her mom, telling her she hoped it wasn't the"vaping disease" that was going around. At that time, news of the mysterious illnesses had started to circulate nationwide.
She said writing the essay for her college paper has been therapeutic in the weeks since her mother's death. "My mother had declared she was done with vaping, yet her decision came too late," Davis wrote."She will never see her youngest daughter graduate high school, nor her oldest graduate college. She will never see her daughters married or meet her grandchildren."More of Maggie Davis' story will air tonight, Sept. 26, on NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt.
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