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Side effects
Side effects

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This story is about a girl named pallavi. She is from mumbai. It all started when she was 5 she had very beautiful and long hairs her classmates used to call her roupensel and she use to adore all the complemets she got.
Whe she turned 15 she was obsessed with her hair but also took it for granted and also mock her mother for starting a parlour where she used to give special hair care treatments to the girls and women pallavi thought it was not a good enough business. And so on some years pass by.
It was pallavi's 18th birthday and the starting of year 2020.
Her father was watching news and it was all hyped up about corona cases found in india.
And soon government will be taking strict action.
Up till march her mother's parlour was fully booked by the customers. After that the lockdown was imposed.
During the lockdown pallavi's mother gave all her concentration to her hairs and within 6 months her hair stqrted to touch her knees already.
After the lockdown was partially removed and there parlour started pallavi and her mother orderd all the required goods from an online site.
After few days when the order arrived pallavi went to the delivery guy and without any precautions she takes the parcel.
Her father scolded her for her negligence but she didn't listen to him and went on in her room.
After few days she started feeling dizzy and also she had related symptoms of covid virus.
Her fath took her to a nearby clinic and she was tested positive for corona.
And she wass taken to the hospital and was admitted there her family was quarantined for 14 days. While her treatment was going on the doctors realised that whatever protein doses they are giving to her is more consumed by her hais rather than her body so they decided to increase the protein doses.
After few days she recovered and returned to her family.
But that was the start of a nightmare few days after returning from hospital when she decided to wash her hair as she was feeling well that day. As she went in she noticed a big lump of hair just fall down while washing she got scared.
After few days her hair started to grow pale as the volume of her hair was gone.
Herr mother tried each and everything possible to regain the strength of her hair but nothing seemed to be useful.
Soon she went into depression as her hairs she loved the most and say was obsessed about it were no longer beautiful like before.
Her mother then consults to her doctor and he tells him that the growth of her hair will not be possible as it was a type of side effect that corona left in her body.
And now ahe have to live with this side effect.
That's when she understood the value of her mother's work and she decided to become a beautician within a year she opened the chain of her mother's parlour to make her dream come true.


© Vartika Modi