Boy, 4, celebrates first day at school with twin sister after battling leukaemia and stroke
THIS four-year-old lad is starting school with his twin sister after battling leukaemia and a stroke.
Noah Karunananthan was diagnosed with cancer aged two in May 2022 after he stopped eating and drinking.
He was given chemotherapy at London’s Great Ormond Street Hospital and while the treatment began to work, he got a fungal infection which led to a stroke.
Parents Sabe, 44, and Dilly, 43, feared he would not recover his movement or speech.
Now, after months of physiotherapy and an all-clear on his leukaemia, he is home in London and ready for classes with sister Naima.
Sabe, said: “We’ll see how they look in their uniforms next week! We’re going to go full throttle on the blazers, ties and shirts!
“We’ve got the stroke and luekemia in the background but we have normal problems now – Noah doesn’t like buttons on his shirts!
“The whole process has felt very surreal.
“As soon as someone says he has cancer, all I wanted to know what his chances of survival.
“I didn’t realise they were so many types of blood cancer.
“But when we got to Great Ormond Street, the consultant reassured us and all of a sudden, all of the ifs, became whens – we suddenly had a roadmap.”
Dilly added: “I didn’t really process it at all.”