Personal Narrative: Pneumonia Changed My Life

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I’ve spent a year getting x-rays due to my illness. Pneumonia has put me in the hospital many times every week. Today I was feeling good but for some reason I had to go get more x-rays taken. My mom carried me through the doors, it wasn’t the same hospital I normally went to. My mom also brought along a basket with three really cute outfits and a cake. It was pink and blue with swirls all over it and party hats on top, it looked really good. I tried walking to it but I couldn’t get there very fast because I kept falling. I gave up on walking quickly and went to crawling towards the cake. When I finally reached the box my mom scolded me and said “you can’t have that right now, you have to wait until you get your pictures taken”. Nobody has …show more content…
The lady kept coming over to me, changing my position or fixing my clothes, walking back to her camera, making silly faces at me, then flashed the light in my eyes. She was funny and I tried really hard to not laugh at her monkey face. She puffed out her cheeks, pulled on her ears, and crossed her eyes. If she was in a jungle, I think she would have been mistaken for a monkey! As she walked towards me with the cake, I babbled “finally”, I was starving! I don’t think anyone understood me though, they were laughing at the drool coming out of my mouth like a waterfall. My mom picked me up and put me in an outfit that matched the cake. When she sat me back down behind the cake, I wanted to dig into it. I wasn’t sure if i’d get in trouble or if I could eat it now. When the lady behind the camera told me to eat it I stuck my hand right in the middle of it. It was mushy and super sticky. I went out a handful into my mouth, but I dropped it all down the front of me instead. The third try I finally got some and it was delicious, I wanted to just keep eating it. I think I got more of the cake on the floor instead of in my belly. I have to admit, this was a lot more fun than x-rays and I got cake just for sitting …show more content…
I don’t have a favorite food, I just eat whatever my parents are eating. It was a warm summer day so my parents decided we would open my presents outside on the deck. By the time we got everything outside, I was getting tired and grumpy. I opened a few presents before I got bored and started playing with the bows that decorated the presents. My brothers and sister finished opening my presents for me.
We finished the party with cake and ice cream. My mom didn’t want my clothes to get ruined so she took off my clothes and sat me in the highchair. When my dad brought the cake over and sat it in front of me everyone started to sing “Happy Birthday day to you, Happy Birthday to you.” I dug into my cake, it tasted even better than the one I ate earlier. I didn’t eat very much of it because I was full from all the other food still and I just wanted to take a nap. I was so tired that every time I tried to take a step to play with my friends, I fell

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