because we could be watching tv and we d be interacting. and they don t just be me, it be other people that would be around and it would be people that love him maybe talking to him and be making sure his spirits stay high. so that was all. everybody just tried to take care of each other, man, i mean it s hard do you think you ll see pizza man again? i don t nope, nope. we finished our shoot shortly after we did that last interview with monigan and found out a few weeks later that maxi never returned to the prison. he passed away and monigan never got to say good-bye to him. .
was to see how big his testicles is, how big his stomach is y all look how swoll his feet are. from my kneecaps twice the size as this. what s that swelling from? poison because it s got to leak down, right, exactly. i take a lot of medications now. at one point he revealed the swelling of his ankles and i couldn t comprehend how bad it really was until he showed us and then i really realized what kind of problems this guy really had. each day monigan wheels maxi over to the infirmary for a shot to relieve the pain. he would push him and inmates would joke with him because he knew the extent of his swelling in certain areas of his body and they would make up jokes and names for him and he had a great attitude about it. he would just laugh right back at them and, you know, act like it was nothing.
himself too, because i care about him. this is my brother. you don t see the resemblance? i think maxi gave monigan a reason to be. a reason to get up every morning. and i think that monigan gave maxi a reason to continue living. maxi s best hope of survival would be a liver transplant. but that was unlikely. it s a complicated situation. there is some concern about the continuity of a transplant program if people find out, well, you re going to give my liver to a criminal, some people would be upset about that and so there s that legitimate concern about the appropriateness of that happening in this kind of population. with little hope of a transplant, most of maxi s care was focused on keeping him comfortable and alert. every day i think it was a question mark about maxi and his health and then we had arrived one day and there was an
ambulance out front and it was actually blocking our entrance into parking, into the parking lot and we found out that maxi was inside the ambulance, so once we got in to see monigan he told us he had had an event during the night and he was being rushed to the hospital. what was the last communication you had? he told me he loved me. what did you say? i love him too. and if he die i m going to [ bleep ] him up. he start laughing and he said, okay. he s telling me i m embarrassing him in front of the ladies because the nurses is around so, you know straight up. you know, any time somebody can laugh in that much pain, man, that make me feel good. that s the type of relationship we got. from what monigan told us, maxi had become very disoriented. he said usually when that happened to him that meant one thing, and that was he was probably most likely going to be in a coma soon.
because we could be watching tv and we d be interacting. and they don t just be me, it be other people that would be around and it would be people that love him maybe talking to him and be making sure his spirits stay high. so that was all. everybody just tried to take care of each other, man, i mean it s hard do you think you ll see pizza man again? i don t nope, nope. we finished our shoot shortly after we did that last interview with monigan and found out a few weeks later that maxi never returned to the prison. he passed away and monigan never got to say good-bye to him.