This San Diego family said it took a while to identify what was wrong with their 14-year-old daughter.
"My daughter is across the country, fighting for her life and it's just ... it's a wreck sometimes,” Allen said.grade from The Language Academy in the College Area where she studied Spanish. Last month, she travelled to Spain with a group of about 20 classmates.
Destinee’s mother, Whitney Williams, said doctors ran tests, told her she had an infection and gave her antibiotics. "We were just, barely got to identify that it was pneumonia, for the first couple of days we knew nothing,” Allen said.
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