This man’s story is a raw blend of personal regret, street survival, and institutional failure. He opens with a powerful reflection on how he mistreated his mother as a child and carries that regret into his older years. Though his mother was his greatest source of strength, he admits to pushing her away in cruel ways—a story of adolescence steeped in guilt.
One of the most shocking turns in the interview is his account of an eye surgery gone wrong. After being hospitalized for an eye infection, he says a nurse performed a procedure without his consent that resulted in the permanent loss of part of his eye. His outrage is real, his voice rising as he explains how vulnerable people without emergency contacts are treated as expendable.
