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Diagnosed with dementia

As my daughter Claire, then five, looked down at her new T-shirt a huge smile spread across her face. ‘Big sister!’ she grinned, pointing proudly at the words.

My wife Melissa and I were expecting our second child, and our girl was thrilled. Just a few months later, on a beautiful sunny afternoon in March 2015, baby Abby was born.

‘She’s gorgeous,’ I gushed. Everything had gone so well, mum and bub were discharged later that day.

When Abby was a week old, we noticed bruising on

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