Well Today marks the three year anniversary of the death of my best friend and my closest family member to me. It was my brother Gary T. Cook jr. He was the one of the first people to get me into riding motorcycles. It was his katana back in the day that gave me my first taste of what freedom really felt like. He was the smartest person I knew but had no common sense.lol Now for the reason he passed away, it started with a surgery he had on his back two years before he passed away. The doctors gave him oxycodone to help make his pain tolerable. Gary wasn't one for pain so he keep taking the pills to make his back feel better. I don't know if any of you ever had a back surgery but from what he was telling me it was pretty painful. Well one thing led to another and he got addicted to the pills fast. Within 9 months he was hooked. He came to me upset cause he didn't know how to deal with the pain but get off the meds. So we looked around and found an outpatient clinic close to his house. This was a methadone clinic. Not sure if anyone knows about methadone bit it is a powerful drug (technicaly not a narcotic) that helps patients get off an opiate addiction like said pain killers. About a year and a half later Gary becomes very I'll, not realizing that in that time frame the doctors were raising his dose. I never in a million years would have suspected that this drug was killing my brother. It was shutting down his organs. The last week he was alive I was going to take him down there to lower if not get off these meds. I saw my brother on wednesday before that Sunday he passed. He told me he thought he was dieing and that he loved me. Well I'm like shut up Gary your 25 and you'll be fine. Gary had just lost his job and found out his girlfriend of 9 years was cheating on h with his cousin. My mom was in Myrtle beach at the time so she hadn't seen him in a week. Well basically he drowned from his blood filling his lungs. I feel better about getting it out and I know it must sound kind of jumbled together but it's been a rough morning for me. I appreciate you reading this. It didn't help that my Internet was out today and I'm posting this from my iPhone. I'm going to go out and get shiity faced tonight and not have a care in the world, cause who knows how long any of us will be here. There is slot more to the story so of you'd like to know just ask.