ED doc here - I think everyone here needs to chill on the speculation as to what is wrong with the child. Sarah has used words out of context as mentioned - if he’s screaming he’s not “unresponsive” (very common for parents to describe the child this way when they are upset and not “responding” to them) and I think coming to the conclusion that he has had a febrile convulsion is unwarranted, plus we generally don’t do bloods for them. He would have had a septic screen or at least a partial one - bloods, urine (as you can see in the photo where he is obviously naked which is another issue in itself
- it’s actually against hospital policy to take photos of patients and she could be forced to take them down), possibly a chest XR but that would depend. 39.5 is still a decent fever and obviously Sarah and Kurt were worried enough to call an ambulance. Whilst an ambulance may or may not have been warranted, you can’t ever begrudge parents for being so worried about their child that they don’t know what to do, especially first time parents.
That is pretty much all you can glean from the stories and whilst I 100% agree that she shouldn’t be exploiting and exposing her child like so, I think any further speculation of what may or may not be wrong with him is not super appropriate.
I do agree that hopefully it changes her tune about vaccination and it is a world of frustration that western medicine is okay for so many in an emergency when they need us (because they know their naturopath can’t do sh*t for them) but they don’t trust us to protect their child. It’s insane.
EDIT: Also, as mentioned, the “stay strong tonight mate” really did make it sound like he was dying or something, such an odd choice of words!