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>> what do you think now of all these tattoos on your face? >> they drive me nuts. it's just a bad reminder of a part of my life that i left behind. >> bryon widner grew up in albuquerque, new mexico. >> when i was about 3 years old, i moved in with my grandparents along with my little sister. my grandmother was a severe alcoholic. i was told that i was pretty well worthless. i wouldn't ever amount to anything. this or that. by the age of 13, 14, i just started running away all the time. i became a chronic runaway at that point. just started living on the streets. >> at the age of 18, bryon jo...

>> okay, bryon. scale of one to ten. is it excruciating? >> it hurts. >> more so than usual? >> the post treatment on the hands, they swell up really bad like boxing gloves. the swelling throbs and kills. the worst part about it is you don't realize how much you use your hands for everything in the world until you can't use them. the pain sucks but it's the frustration that really gets me. >> we almost got divorced right after we got married because he was drinking almost every night. >> the beginning of our relationship was pretty rough. i was still a heavy alcoholic when we got married. and ...

See out of that eye and he says not very well because it's like his eye's all covered up. >> i'm going to the pharmacy to get his prescription. his pain medicine. the second treatment has been a little bit harder for me to watch him go through because i know how much pain he was in the first treatment. and it hurts to see people you love in pain. >> there's some swelling in the hospital and, by the time we got home it was pretty poofed out. by about 10:00 last night, my eye was already almost this bad and it just progressively just keeps getting worse. i still have flashbacks. past things that...

Get this done in seven or eight treatments but it's going to take more than that, obviously. so this whole process may wind up taking a year and a half before we're finished. >> following several treatments, the medical team alters their approach. >> so now what we're doing, we've done the last couple of times, it's worked very well. we've put him to sleep. once he's asleep, then we give him the local anesthesia. then we do the treatment. so when he wakes up, his face is still numb. the numbing medicine wears off slowly over a few hours and so the pain kind of builds slowly. he can tolerate it...

After bryon and julie left the white power movement, the couple were being threatened by bryon's former mates. >> they take everything that you entrusted with them and they throw it right at you, and that's what they did to me. and i was pregnant with tierson. i was so sick. i was cramping up. we thought we were going to lose him. that was the summer you had the nervous breakdown. >> yeah. >> julie and i got into an argument one day over some shirt on the clothesline outside. and she was hormonal, and i was dealing with her being pregnant plus dealing with the club bull [ muted ]. i snapped an...