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. .
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.
sort of stuck to me. i got the same tattoo on my chest. how did it stick in prison? everybody knows me and a lot of people from my town plus it was all over the news, my story, my case, you know. the reason john pizzaman maxi s face was all over the news was because on halloween night 1996 he murdered his boss inside the pizza parlor where they worked. i was mad at my boss and things went bad and he lost. he said i was he said i just disgruntled. oh, boy, exactly. maxi was given a 60-year sentence for murder but after meeting him, we realized he wasn t going to serve much more than the ten years he already had. he wasn t getting paroled. but his time was almost up. i got psoriasis of the liver and stomach hernia and they can t give me no treatments. why? that s what the chief doctor
i don t remember, you know, i woke up in the hospital. maxi recovered in the hospital and was sent back to prison. but the latest scare prompted some changes. this is some paperwork i signed for them to take off of dying like to give me cpr if i lose it again because before i told them i didn t want them to do that. you told them do not resuscitate you? yeah, but now i had it changed at the hospital, on the street, and in here. his change of heart regarding his do not resuscitate was influenced by his best friend and caregiver, joseph. i told him i wasn t going to take care of him if they wasn t going to resuscitate him. he had to sign legal documents for me to prove that if i m going to take care of him he has to be willing to take care of