Sidney Younce here. 

I am doing much better: am off the oxygen, but have to continue to do the breathing treatments and take my pills until they're all gone.  I am so happy; I feel a lot like myself!

Mom and dad are thinking of sending me to summer school, just so I can catch up; I'm way behind on my homework asssignments.  Bummer!  Yet I am grateful because I could have very easily died: I had a particularly nasty strain of viral pneumonia; it really hit me for a loop!

Dr. Pratt is very pleased at the progress I'm making.  He says my lungs/breathing have improved dramatically.  Don't have to have him tell me that:  I can now breathe without having to fight for air whenever I take a deep breath, and my chest no longer hurts.  I still have to take it easy, though, but he says if I continue to improve, he just might release me and I can get back to my normal life I had prior to getting sick.

Maddie and Yoachim, my bratty little sister and brother, have even been behaving; they aren't as annoying as they usually are.  I appreciate that; at least they know to show me some respect as I continue to recover from my pneumonia!  I am back at school now, but I have to be careful to stay away from people who are sneezing/coughing:  otherwise, I could have a relapse and wind back in the hospital and have to go through all of this again!

I don't want that, so I am being extremely cautious.  It's a big pain, but I don't want to have to go through all those painful sticks and procedures or x-rays again!!  Once was more than enough!!

The oxygen company came and got the tanks of oxygen last week, so now I don't have to look at them anymore.  The breathing machine, however, remains, and I have to do my breathing treatments twice, when I get up in the morning, and again, when I go to bed. 

This will probably be my last entry, now that the crisis/hospital stay is behind me.  I can get back to living my life as normally as possible and make sure I take the necessary precautions, so I don't end up back at square one all over again!  That would NOT be good AT all!

Well, I'm getting ready to go to my next class (Spanish), so I will vamanos outta here.  Take care and thanks for putting up with my musings!  God bless and see ya around!

~Sidney.  :)