Did You Hear About The Time I Had Pneumonia?

Archie Brown woke up that morning so sick he could hardly lift his head. His mom was really worried; Archie had never had a temperature of 105 before. She sent the other kids to school with her neighborhood carpool. She loaded Archie in the car and took him to the hospital. He was immediately taken into the emergency room and put into an ice bath, with a fan blowing across him to get the fever down. He was given a shot of penicillin to fight his bacterial pneumonia.

When the fever was at an acceptable, Archie was taken to a room, where he spent the next week. Later that day, his third grade teacher, Mrs. Adams, came to see Archie. She brought him the gift that had been intended for him at the party at school that day.

You see, it was the day before the school break for the Christmas holiday.