Still not sick

Ugh, I keep feeling it coming on and it just hangs over me.
Today, I got the desire to buy the cook a 'Go-phone'. I had given him my old one, the one I bought in Lost Wages for seventy - five bucks; but he lost it after only a couple of weeks.
And despite the fact that he had gone to a meeting or two and had professed a desire to not drink or drug anymore, we knew he had been cracking out and slogging drinks.
Why give a drunk a new phone? He'd only lose it again. But in the last week or so he's been going to a meeting every day and today when he came in to work he said he had gotten a sponsor.
so... I told my boss to check the prices of 'Go' phones when he went to Sams' club. Well boss man got him a prepaid phone and wouldn't take any money from me for it... and also bought him an extra three hundred minutes.
So we sat in his office and programmed it and got it activated and put our numbers into it... at one point when we were trying to open the package, cook came back and said "who's the phone for?" and I said I had stepped on mine and broken it. Cook believed me and walked off.
So boss and I feverishly worked at getting the phone activated and finally , success. So we handed the phone over to cook and gave him the little speech about calling someone BEFORE you drink or drug, that he could call us at any time of any day or night.
I really hope he hangs in there. I like the guy a lot, and would even consider hanging out with him and having some fun if he would just stay sober and deal with his problems. Of all the people in this entire city he's the only one I could see being my good buddy, my best friend in town.
But he's got to stay sober long enough to get over that initial craving and know what it is like to not want to drug all the time.
I totally hope he 'gets' it.
And I'm glad we got him a phone.