Danger of aerosols

[fernando torres]

              

My 30 year old son Marc has been diagnosed with terminal cancer. He is a Graphic Designer and airbrush artist. They have removed one of his kidneys and the disease has spread to his lungs and heart.

I remember that ever since he was a teenager he was using spray cans to do his artwork(which is graphitti-like but more refined). He would spend long hours, without my knowledge painting with his friends in large boards and walls, all at the same time while breathing the fumes.

I have done some research, and it is true that there are carcinogens in
spray paints and artists paints. Solvents and all the stuff we use and put in model airplanes can be dangerous. There is no history of cancer in my family going back to my great grandparents.

Fernando

[minnesotamodeler]

Fernando, please accept my sympathy.   Our kids are supposed to outlive us; awfully hard to handle when it doesn't work out that way.  I had to bury a 20-year-old daughter.  You will get through it even though you don't see how. 

--Ray