Halloween Candy Vaccine

Sharing Stories

October 23, 2022 at 6:50 p.m.

Delicious to eat. Not so comfortable to sleep on.

...by Ariele M. Huff

Halloween Candy Vaccine

Here’s a funny one.

We had our Omicron variant booster shots on Friday.
I had a few symptoms…kind of a head rush initially, a suddenly sore spot on my right lower back, then weird dreams that night.
(Those dreams are my typical kind of vax reaction AND with Covid when I had that.)

So, the dream was that I developed a bunch of trick-or-treat candy on the spot on my back: tootsie roll pops, wrapped candies, black and orange jellybeans. In the dream, I thought of this as a thing I needed to cure and a curative thing.

I was surprised on waking that the candy was gone from that spot. 😊

Odd but funny and even really pleasant dreams have been my experience with vaccines and with my Omicron Covid experience.

Ariele M. Huff hosts Sharing Stories, creates Writing Corner, gathers poems, and edits them for Poetry Corner. She teaches online, ZOOM, and Skype classes; edits manuscripts and authors books—over 30 on Amazon; and publishes herself and others on brands Candy Bar Books and Band Aid Books.

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