in a blog to his friends last month updating his condition, Mr. Baird said his cancer had spread from his kidney to his lungs and vertebrates. “Although the news seems bad, I am calm,” he said. “I am in God’s hands.”
“It is utterly painful to think that no more visual works will be coming from his fingertips, but I think the thing I will miss most is that mischievous twinkle that often graced his Deaf eyes and the unique way in which he saw the world,” Durr said.