Personal Narrative: Sickness

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“Ouch”, I said as the pain in my chest got worse. I told my teacher and she sent me to the nurse. The nurse just gave me pain medicine. I ended up going to the nurse three times that day until the nurse finally took my temperature.I had a bad fever. I had to go home, The first day at home I felt the same with the chest pains and shoulder pains. On the second day of the sickness my fever went highermy chest hurt worse and I was getting a bad cough that hurt my chest horribly. My step dad took me to the doctor. The nurse took some xrays and I had to lift my arm up and take deep breathsit felt like knives stabbing my chest and shoulder. The doctor came back with the x-rays and said, “You are sick with a sickness called pneumonia”,I

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