Covid memories

23rd March 2025 | Letters

I saw your plea for memories of Covid in the last Kibworth & District Chronicle. My experience had a deep low and a great high. The low was that a close friend of mine was diagnosed with throat cancer shortly before Covid struck. He was undergoing radiotherapy, so his immune system was destroyed. He caught Covid – pre-vaccine – in hospital and it killed him in three days, he was only in his sixties.

The high was that, able only to take short walks outside, I plunged into my writing and produced three novels and three pieces of non-fiction, including the series of articles that has become ‘Look After Your Mind’…

Steve