vertical panorama - 2021.11.10 12.55.33 - berlin tiergarten

Photos for health - background
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Buy a photo, help an illness afflicted park-exiled designer with his medical and rent costs.

As a twist of fate, these photographs are partly a result of my lung affliction. The lung damage the affliction brings has forced me to spend at least half my waking hours in park and forest air. It's from these stays the photographs have resulted.
(More on this below).

PHOTO INFO
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Vertical tree canopy panorama - 2021.11.10 12.55.33 -
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- High resolution : Up to 12,000 pixels wide

- Individually signed with a digitizer pen, with custom dedications available on request.
( More info in the order-response email, once you order).

- Digital prints are printed by exposing photo paper with laser light.
Essentially it's like developing photos before, but using a laser rather than a film negative.

More details
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illness…  vs normal life
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Most of all I want to get back to my normal work, designing and coding pro-society data projects, which I can only do if i’m healthy.

The medical affliction I have - mecfs, similar to longCovid - is little understood in the public health system(s), with no treatment options available.

Some private specialists in integrative/functional medicine have relevant experience and therapies. However, medical help costs 10-30k Euros a year. 

The MECFS affliction
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My condition, mecfs, has great similarities to longcovid and is little researched, with essentially no help offered in public health.
Key 'features' are broken bodily repair mechanisms, persistent excessive autoimmunity. and damaged bodily barriers.
Untreated, the body gradually falls apart, beating itself up and unable to repair normally or at all.
(A longer explanation and specialist blood test results is here. ).

In my case, though taking many supplemental nutrients to help body repair, some of my outer barriers, my lungs, the blood vessels to/from the lungs, and the gut, see a lot of daily inflammation, pain and breakage. 

Many slightly above-average heavy everyday chemicals trigger autoimmune attacks and huge pain. Now I can hardly sleep without pain, let alone be home longer and suffer more inflammation from triggering household chemistry.

How to fix…? + What can be done to help things, medically? 
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( You can see scans of medical expenditure receipts, here, if you're wondering where I get the numbers from )

Medical treatment is, very much alas, outside the public health system's expertise. Some specialist practitioners can help. But one needs pay for it oneself.

Typical treatment involves blood testing, followed by custom supplement recommendations, to help fix body damage, restore body repair mechanisms, repair broken barriers (the various variations on leaky gut, including leaky skin and blood vessels) and fight of viruses and other inflammatory initiators.

Blood testing alone can run up to 8-12k euros annually, one will need to see a specialist at least once a month, at 300 euros a meeting, and be recommended a diet of supplements and medication amounting to 400+600 euros a month.

In total, medical costs easily run up to 10-30k euros a year, especially in the first year when more frequent testing is needed.
I'd need to be more than healthy to afford that.

So, any help to cover costs would be most gratefully appreciated.
If you like my photos and want to buy for their appeal alone, that's really cool too. I've always loved photography. And nature.

I've visited relevant medical specialists in Berlin and Helsinki, and you can see my receipt scans, of blood test and consultation costs, here.



I used to be a sta.... exhibited photographer
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While it's mostly been on pause (ironically, due to illness) for the last 12 years, I used to be an enthusiastic hobby experimental photographer that's been exhibited internationally.
See :
- some of my experimental work here.
- and my experimental video work here.
( One can say my tree panoramas build on my travel image work ).

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