My gorgeous baby boy Zach was cruelly taken from me on 10th March 2008 aged just 6 months & 10 days by the horrendous disease meningococcal septicaemia, he was such a joy to be around. Every day was a new adventure with our wee man, as he wasn't exactly the healthiest baby in the world, but through all this, he constantly smiled, giggled and was as pleasant as could be. He had an appetite for life and a huge one for food lol, was always eating, a pleasure to feed as his great-granny used to say! He was in & out of the hospital a few times in his short but eventful life, we almost lost him on his first night home after he stopped breathing twice but he was a wee fighter and refused to give up then. We were regular visitors to the doctors with Zach through various minor illnesses, eventually being described as 'over-anxious parents', thus ensuring an apprehensiveness in returning so often. That fateful day was just like any other, he was out of sorts, nothing unusual there, he was taken out for a walk, a drive, all the activities that used to settle him, this day though nothing seemingly working. It was when in the car with his daddy that he seemed to deteriorate but unfortunately we were not to know that he was dying in front of us. We rushed him to hospital and within an hour and 10 minutes of us arriving, he was gone. I cannot even begin to explain the feeling when someone tells you that your child has died, I am sitting here now shedding tears of utter pain and devastation at the recollection. My son did not even have a single mark on him, no rash at all when we took him to the hospital but when he passed away and we were handed all kinds of leaflets about Meningitis, he had almost every other symptom on them, regrettably we were unaware of them. Zach Stewart Ian Moore is and will always remain, a part of our lives and is sorely missed by his whole family including his mummy, daddy, big sister Lia, aunties, uncles & his loving grandparents. Life is so unfair, it will remain a mystery to all of us why he was taken at such a young age, all I ask is that families recognise this horrible illness before it's too late.....