As soon an I woke up I felt very cold and I was coughing a lot. My breathing was in short unsteady intervals. my head was pounding so I woke up my mother. she took my temperature and made a shocking discovery my temperature was 104 and my face my blue from oxygen deficiency, she quickly called the ambulance. The ambulance came and I was taken away in the gurney. At the time I was 9 years old, I know what you may be thinking how does a 9-year-old get pneumonia, well the week before my family and I went to manhattan on new years eve we hade to wait a very long time in the freezing cold causing me to get the flu, but my state worsened as the days went on I ignored my symptoms and did not rest or take medicine and take very cold showers. On the