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.

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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!

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"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.

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"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."

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