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COVID Days

The whole world is going through tough times. Death and despair all around. Feels like Nature wants us to suffer. Though Covid is the main actor , there is flood, cyclone and others in play too. second wave hit us badly in India, especially in Delhi-NCR, condition was really bad. we are afraid to fall sick, there is no beds in hospitals, no oxygen facility. People are afraid to even go to hospitals. Many are having anxiety and panic attacks by just thinking about it. I was also no exception.

Symptoms first occurred to me on 23rd April, Delhi & Haryana was under lock down. It was around noon, I was sitting on a sofa watching TV, suddenly I started having trouble breathing. It was acute while sitting on floor. I stood up putting my hands on my knees trying to breathe. I was even unable to talk properly. Talking made me gasp for breath. I hoped it will go away because the biggest problem was that, I am living alone.

I was kinda thinking, 'MAN, I just married and this is how it gonna end? NO WAY'. 

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Our  marriage was kinda funny, my wife teases me. It was a covid marriage with just a bunch of people and everything happened in a blink of an eye, from engagement to marriage. Everyone wants to be done with the marriage ASAP. Our family don't know when and how will this pandemic end and nobody wants to wait till then, but my wife, she complained that everything happened so fast and she didn't have time to prepare. And after our honeymoon I m stuck here in Delhi & she in Kerala. 

And now she is afraid to death. I am here alone and gasping for breath and she cant do anything to help. Since it is lockdown and taxi services are somewhat based on the algorithm of "How Luck you are" rather than the Real-Time Network model of Ola & Uber.

I called her and she panicked hearing my condition. She complained that, I never listen, bcoz She had already told me to come back to her in Kerala, which I didn't do, of course. I wondered how did she managed to get that time to complain while I was on the verge of a lung collapse. Anyways, being an Ayurvedic Doctor, she instructed me to have some medicine, which she has already packed for me as a precaution. She told me to have that. I took it and laid sideways on sofa. After an hour or so I got some relief. I am able to breathe normally. 

I was lying there in sofa staring at the ceiling fan. Usually I never dare to look at ceiling fan while sleeping , bcoz I am afraid of the crappy fan dropping on me while I am asleep. Today It was unusually nice looking at the pattern it creates whiling rotating fast. And I mumbled, "God.. I love her".

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