“‘Mama, just crank up the car, let’s go,'” Hicks said her daughter insisted, even though she didn’t like hospitals.

“She went in with a headache, fever,” Hicks said. It went from not breathing, got worse “She lost a kidney, her liver began to fail. And it just went one after another, one after another.”

Her children “are my heart and will always be my heart,” Hicks said.

Mychaela “was the light of the family, her smile could light up a room,” Scott said.

Hicks and Scott are urging other people to take the virus seriously.

“All I can say is, take this, take this (virus) very seriously, because it’s real, it’s out there,” Hicks said.

“It’s not a joke. It’s not a game, it’s not something that the government … made up,” Scott said.

Wear a mask, wash your hands, keep your distance and “don’t come out unless you really, really got to, especially here in Florida,” she said.

“Nobody should have to feel the pain, my auntie shouldn’t have to feel this pain.”