I swam at 6 this morning. Not the whole nine yards, only 5 lengths, followed by some hip and leg exercises in the water. Water is very forgiving. Perhaps this is the beginning, if not of a complete recovery but at least of some relief of the pain. Perhaps.

As some of you may know, I write generic letters—one size fits all—at times when the topic is relevant or of interest to a number of my friends, like the annual Christmas letter that most people write to recap the year that was. That’s how mine started. But there were other times when I didn’t want to repeat myself , so I chose to write a general or generic letter to cover the salient points. This is one of those times, hence a Generic Covid-19. It was the cause of my troubles though I never tested positive. I was never tested. But oh, how I was tried!