Video of Room in: A Final Cocoon: Dying at Home NY Times article by JOYCE WADLER.
A Final Cocoon: Dying at Home NY Times article by JOYCE WADLER. THERE is some confusion about the cause of the liver disease that has given Fred Kress a short time to live. The 46-year-old handyman and house painter, who lives outside of Baltimore, had had hepatitis C, which causes liver damage, for several years. He didn't wear the right mask when he was painting houses, and when he did his craft projects, making alien masks out of fiberglass resin, he worked in a small, windowless room, ignoring all the warning labels on the supplies he used. "It said 'will' — not 'can' — cause liver and kidney damage," Freddy said. "My liver was completely fried." Even before he became sick, however, his life was no bed of roses. He had had a 20-year love-hate relationship with a girlfriend and was living, at the time of his diagnosis, with his widowed mother. His 17-year-old daughter, Carrie, has Rett syndrome, an autism like disease that has left her unable to speak. And the day last February when his doctors told him he had no more than a year to live his girlfriend and his best friend hooked up. "That's been rougher than knowing I am going to die," Mr. Kress said. "And then, for some reason, I picked up a paintbrush. I got that paintbrush in my hand, I don't think about any of that." Freddy stepped up his work on the masks. He covered the walls of his room in fluorescent paint, illuminating it with black light that made the colors come alive, and bought 30 mannequin heads for ...
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