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>> we need to numb him up then. >> you wouldn't want a lot of that? >> no, not at all. that really hurt. >> okay. i'm going to give you some numbing medicine. >> a good response, though. >> this part will sting for a few seconds but then it will get numb. >> unfortunately for something like this with these randomly placed tattoos, it's hard to do a single shot and get it done. you have so much. it's not the little needle sticks that hurt so much. this local anesthetic has a ph that's a little bit acidic, so it stings when it goes in. it's not a pleasant process. >> just take some deep breaths....

Scared to death, obviously. i thought i was going to die. but it really dawned on me the next morning that i came that close to having my brains all over the side of a building. and i still -- i still see his face and feel that gun on my forehead most nights, actually. >> it's bryon's third treatment, but it's the first on his neck. >> going to start slipping you some cocktails while we get those monitors put on. >> because of bryon's neck sensitivity, the decision is made to use general anesthesia. since he'll be asleep, the doctor decides to also treat one side of bryon's face. >> everybody ...

Even consider that. >> the southern poverty law center offered to cover the cost of bryon's tattoo removal procedures. >> if i can prevent one other kid from making the same mistakes i did, if i can prevent one other family from having to go through the same crap that i put my family through, maybe i can redeem myself and maybe it will be worth it. >> the difficulty with bryon is the number of them. i mean, it's just -- he's got so many. so the biggest challenge with him will be just the very large area of the surface of skin that we're going to have to treat. >> dr. bruce shack elects to trea...

>> 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 i've done. things that have happened to me. >> one of bryon's recurring nightmares center...

>> i am. >> is it getting any better? >> no, it hurts like hell. >> 0 to being no pain and 10 being the worst. are you thinking 10? >> i'm thinking 11. >> i'm giving you some more medicine in your i.v. okay? >> i was a little intimidated by both of them. my first impression of bryon came from the other nurses. they told me he had a lot of tattoos on his face. they didn't really know exactly what all they meant but they weren't good. i had never seen anyone with that many tattoos on their face. >> all right. i'm going to let you sign and then i'll give you this. and we'll let you go. >> don't s...