Far from the jabs.
It was such an awaited moment! And it got over within a couple of seconds. How quick the morning was! A prick is all I felt. If it weren’t the jab, my mind would have passed it off as a very gentle ant bite. It was all a breeze as I went back home after getting my first vaccination. One step closer to fighting corona, yay! For almost six to seven hours from that point in time, I felt nothing unusual. “No side-effects, eh?” I said, “Eh!” With the most relaxed smile on my face. After all, it was a Saturday morning. I wasn’t going to waste my weekend on something boring like resting. Or at least, that’s what I thought. Come evening, as the sun made way for darker skies the doors of my body opened to immense pain and its temperature went skyrocketing as if it were aiming to touch the moon itself. 102-degree celcius, out of nowhere! And I was shivering in a room with no fan and no air conditioning. I asked for a blanket in the middle of summer – where I would have usually turned d...