Growing up, Triston faced a harsh reality. He was raised in the foster care system while grappling with his mother's drug addiction and his own mental health struggles. Life felt like a constant uphill battle, and by the summer of 2023, he had reached his breaking point. On July 14, 2023, overwhelmed by pain and isolation, Triston sat alone on the floor with a gun in his mouth. In that moment of desperation, he whispered a prayer, asking God for a sign — anything to stop him. But the silence that followed was deafening. "I said, ‘If this isn't what you want me to do... if there's something else for me, send me a sign. Stop me,’” Triston recalled in an interview with Inside Edition Digital's Andrea Swindall. “And it felt like the most empty silence I've ever felt in my life. The wind stopped blowing. Everything got really quiet. I took that as a no.” He pulled the trigger. But against all odds, Triston woke up in a hospital bed — blind and severely disfigure...
