Posted on 03/17/2023 3:11:23 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The family of Theo Emm, aged three, have said they had only just welcomed baby brother Oliver into the world days before the tragedy
A family of a three-year-old boy have told how he wanted to watch cartoons before suddenly collapsing and dying of Strep A without having shown symptoms.
Theo Emm died at his home after falling seriously ill with the "silent killer", on February 18, having shown hardly any signs of illness.
He had been a "bit lethargic" the night before but was feeling better by the time he went to bed.
The family from Westbury, Wiltshire, had only just welcomed Theo's baby brother Oliver into the world days beforehand when the tragedy struck.
Parents Billy and Jody Emm are still too distraught to speak, but want to raise awareness of the illness, said Billy's brother, Chris Emm.
"I've spoken to my brother and Jody and they said they didn't feel they were able to talk about this as it's still too raw for them," he said.
"Usually they would be okay about talking, but they just didn't feel they could. They did say to me that they wanted more than anything to raise awareness and not for people to think it is a sob story to take pity on them.
"This kind of condition in children is often called a 'silent killer' and it is very rare for children to die from it. In Theo's case, there were no symptoms. He just collapsed on the Saturday morning and died."
Chris, who works as a nurse in the accident and emergency department at Salisbury District Hospital added: "When he woke up on Saturday morning he wanted to watch the cartoons on TV so he was carried downstairs.
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That was a great episode
And some people blame the vaccine even if they don’t know if the person was vaccinated
My ping list follows died suddenly threads in which the cause is not known, with the expectation FReepers may connote the COVID-19 vaccine was responsible.
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It’s not a ping list. It’s spam you call a ping list announcement.
Since it’s mocking, it’s the same as saying stop asking whether a person got the vaccine. It violates this forum’s rule to not get in a thread you don’t like to annoy the people posting there. People notice, even if you call it a ping list.
Fair enough.
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