So I think (I hope...) the worst of my summer flue, that has hit me much harder than I imagined, is over and it feels as if I am on the way to bettering.
The flu itself (fever, aching limbs...) passed relatively quickly. After a week I thought it was over.
But, without feeling really sick, I was totally lacking in energy, and I mean: really totally without any energy, like I've never experienced before.
I slept 20 to 22 hours a day. Sometimes when I woke up, I thought it was better. I would sit down at the computer and open a few images from the session I had just started editing before the illness began, but just setting up the window size and choosing an editing tool made me break out in a sweat, feel a little dizzy, and have to lie down again - and wake up hours later. It sounds unbelievable, but the slightest effort, even thinking about certain things, exhausted me completely.
I know there are worse things, but I felt more dead than alive.
I feel like I've aged 100 years but now it feels like my energy is slowly - very slowly! - is coming back. Still, I could only edit just two pictures the day before yesterday, and just 5 yesterday; in the face of a series of about 120 pictures, nothing, so to speak.
While I'm trying to get ahead with editing to finally present new series here again, I'm trying to find some older series that I've never shown on Patreon that are less demanding in terms of removing skin blemishes. (It seems that it's the repetitive work, doing the same steps on many similar images again and again, that takes a lot of energy out of me).
So here is a preview of one of those older series from my time in Barcelona!
I'm trying to fulfill at least the minimum promises of my different levels, but of course I hope to be back to my normal energy level soon and be able to post as much and as often new content as you are used to!
It is especially important to me today to thank you for your support and loyalty!