Allergy Season, By Mark Tulin – Friday Flash Fiction
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Allergy Season, By Mark Tulin
8/5/2020
I wait for the allergy shots with sleeves rolled up.
The nurse gives me a perfunctory smile, flicks the needle with her forefinger, and counts backward from three.
“Here it goes,” she says and squeezes the syringe into my left arm and another into the right. I feel its viscous liquid travel under my flesh and into my bloodstream. A swell appears on each arm like little burning mountains.
“I’ll see you back in two weeks,” she says with a perfunctory smile.
I take the pain in stride knowing that no tree, grass, or mold allergies can touch me now.
Crow On The Wire 
I could do with some of those injections the pollen seems very strong this year!
Yes, we can’t neglect our allergies. The mask actually helps when I take my morning walks. I don’t sneeze nearly as much.
Yeah.never ignore the allergies.
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Reblogged this on The Reluctant Poet.
Thanks, again.
I have strangely been immune to pollen 😀
You’re very fortunate. 🙂