Yet even as she deteriorated in body and mind, she still enjoyed her lunches with the little group who had kept in contact with her for 20 years.
It was a nightmare to watch as she deteriorated, and when she got to treatment it was already entrenched and she was more resistant to change.
As a young boy growing up in the Bronx, Owen Renik saw his mother struggle with depression, watched helplessly as she deteriorated from a muscle-wasting disease, and spent months living with relatives because she was unable to care for him.
At first, he strove to cover up her forgetfulness in public, and as she deteriorated he would patiently show her photographs of friends and family and gently remind her who they were, trying to ensure she clung onto the shards of memory for as long as possible.
As she deteriorated, a doctor called Bailey and her daughter into a room and said, Bailey claims: "'It's a poor prognosis: your mother is going to die a painful death and she will go just like that' and he clicked his fingers.
That is a poor attempt at me trying to contract the uterus down by that manoevre.... [Video restarts - The student says: call a code].... she is losing consciousness and the BP is really low - I didn't feel as though I needed to do any more observations as she was deteriorating and massaging the fundus to get some contraction going was the best I could do in that situation.
She has been in prison at Katsina state jail ever since, her mental state gradually deteriorating as she shares an already cramped cell with five other condemned women.
Her team is also working with a man with severe dementia and his wife, whose own health is deteriorating as she struggles to care for him.
Her relationship with her father had deteriorated as she drifted away from the party of Barry Goldwater and got swept up in the liberalism of the late 1960s.
Ève Curie lived with (and traveled on her concert engagements with) her mother, whose health deteriorated as she slowly died of leukemia, thought to have been caused by Marie's long-term exposure to radioactive elements.
