She wanted to live life to the fullest—experience everything.That may have led her to being a little more adventurous and even impetuous than her co...temporaries. If there was a tree to be climbed, she climbed it. She dove into the river from the railroad bridge. She rode her bicycle down the steepest hill in town trying to top fifty miles an hour before she had to brake to make the curve at the bottom. Whatever the activity, she did the most daring part of it.Until the day Deborah almost. Multi-infarctdementia was what my mother had, basically dozens of tiny littlestrokes throughout her brain. None of them, by themselves, were major,but in combination, it was almost like Alzheimer's - a slow butinexorable dimming of her mental capacities. Some days, she barelyrecognized me; but others, she seemed almost her usual bright chipperself. As I exited the elevator on the third floor and walked to herroom, I prayed that this would be one of her good days.I entered her room quietly, so. Once my parents had to go for visit to relative’s house and where suppose to come late evening. I was alone at home and didn’t go to work for little back problem. As usual she came to our house for water and I opened the door and told her to help her self as that day she had not done any sweeping as she had been out earlier day evening and had just came to our bldg to check if her son had completed work but by the time she came to bldg, her son had completed work and had left. She asked me the. " But you haven't, really, Honey. You have been a bit stressed but no morethan Dave was at times. It is just that Tanya wants to nip things in thebud before they get serious. She's known you for a long time and is greatat reading people. And she is right about getting replacements for thefour partners that left - you have been concentrating too much on yourwork to tackle that as well but it has been over two months since theywent. At some point soon we are going to need a vacation, too, so we.