Overview
- The designer said a rose thorn pierced his hand during a holiday on Sylt, and the area soon turned red and painful as the swelling spread up his arm.
- He applied antiseptic and visited a dermatologist who found no problem, then he developed chills, severe pain, and trouble thinking clearly.
- He recounted that hospital doctors opened the wound on his hand and began strong antibiotics through an IV, which required an eight‑day stay.
- He described fever delirium and several kilograms of weight loss during the illness, followed by a cast on his arm during recovery.
- Months later he reports full physical recovery but avoids roses and calls the experience a lasting “rose trauma,” according to Tag24’s report of his Bild interview.