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About the 2nd edition:

Certainly one or the other will wonder how the selection of the soap bubbles as a motif for the cover came about.

I looked for a motif for a long time and then found the most meaningful motif for me in the soap bubble.

You pay attention to all the different details. The way in which the colors meander into and around each other, twist, are born and then pass away. There are always new colors and patterns. Just like in our life, everything is in flux and a lot is changing, whether positive or negative. The variety in the colors, the mixtures and patterns are, in my opinion, an excellent synonym for the "diversity" of the symptoms of my rare disease. It is not for nothing that syringomyelia is "a disease with a thousand facets" and the path to diagnosis often means many years of frustration and confusion for many of those affected. Looking back on the odyssey, which led me to my diagnosis through many wrong paths, the colors also represent the almost comparable complexity with which I was confronted in our health system.

Cover design: Frank Wolfgang Krüger

Photographer: Lanju Fotografie