On December the 5th 1992 I started dating the man I planned to grow old with. On December the 7th 1996 I married him We had a 3 month old daughter and a 4 year old daughter, things seemed great. Little did i know what was about to happen to us but I fought till the very last day. Timmy was a drug abuser and he wasn't open with it he hid it well from everyone and it gradually grew. There was years of horrible fights about his drug abuse and constant drug binges. Timmy would constantly come home and sleep for days and we knew not to bother him or wake him because the drugs made him mean. In December 2006 he went into a 7 day detox he was completely clean. I was never so proud of him he had done it During the next 10 months he did relapse he had started taking prescription hydroCodone but he did have physical injuries and it wasn't in large amounts. The hydrocodone made him want to use after only 2 weeks of treatment you could tell he was fighting cravings he was getting sick, he even said he was craving really bad a few days before he passed and he tried to self detox, because we couldn't afford his detox therapy. December 16th 2007 My husband Passed away of a methadone overdose, He went to his friends house, they were "partying " as they call it and they sent him home when they seen what was happening. They never told me so I could help him. Over the past 11 years I thought I had prepared for an overdose. I thought I could recognize the signs of classic overdose but with methadone those signs aren't accurate. And you cant prepare yourself . Timmy was really hyper, he was red in the face and his eyes were bulged and red. When he sat down he would doze off and finally he went to the bedroom about 1 AM and he fell across the bed and he went to sleep....He never woke up. I never got to sleep in the bed that night to watch over him like I had all those years before. We had waited and waited for him to get up, I had checked on him minutes before they say he died (1 PM). I found him the next day about 5 PM. I love him and I stayed right here with him because I don't know what he was going through. I would have been here as long as I live.