"He's cleaned me out."
These four words, uttered by my elderly father during our weekly visit, started a chain of events that would dominate my life for the next year and a half.
Given that Dad was in the early stages of dementia at the time, I wasn't sure whether he was referring to events that had occurred many years ago, or if it was more recent.
What I was certain of, though, was who and what it was about...