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Yard and inmates would joke with him because they 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. >> oh, look at you. >> making that dude crash for the first time. >> what's going on? >> i going to my shower. what's up. coming up -- >> i woke up in the hospital. >> john maxi takes a turn for the worse. >> he was laying right here. ♪ i can do anything ♪ i can do anything today ♪ i can go anywhere ♪ i can go any...

>> god answered my prayer and gave me the ability to clean him up from his head to his feet. >> by the time we met him, maxi had a few recent brushes with death. the last time he fell into a coma and was rushed to an outside hospital. >> we was in church and one of the officers came in and was like, pizza man died. so you know, we all mourned and we was -- it was crazy. we like, man. well, come to find out, that there was a guy in the hospital with his name that died. not him. so when he came back, he come back strutting and we like, oh, man. >> i was in better shape. >> you know, we hug and a...

>> 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 two 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. then he started laughing and he said, okay. he's ...

>> i got sa cirrhosis of the liver and stomach cramps and they can't give me no treatments. >> why? >> that's what the chief doctor said. if they cut me open, the cancer will spread and kill me faster. >> so ha does it mean for you sm. >> a death sentence. >> even with death looming over him, maxi found comfort in the support and camaraderie of his fellow inmates. >> him being around us, i feel like this is what gives him hope. even if he knows he's dying, he knows that there's not much the medical people can do -- >> more than anything else, joseph formed a special bond with him. like maxi he...

He said usually that meant one thing and that was he was probably most likely going to be in a coma soon. >> he was laying right here like he was in his bunk so i got him up and he lay back in his bunk then he covered up. then he got out of his bunk and went to the restroom, came back and instead of laying backown in his bunk he sat on the floor, from his wheelchair. so when i woke up i see him sitting on the floor and i turn to him. it's the floor. he think he's sitting in the wheelchair. then i realized that he done ran out of gas. ain't no getting back to the bunk. so i take him to the hosp...