Aston Crow has been playing a waiting game that is nearly over.

The two-year-old is on the brink of a life-saving bone marrow transplant that will cure him of the rare leukaemia that has plagued him for more than eight months.

His five weeks so far at the Royal Children’s Hospital began with five days of chemotherapy to start preparing him for his risky transplant.

And since then doctors have been waiting for his little body to recover so he is strong enough to undergo a second round of chemotherapy, followed swiftly by the transplant, later this month.

RCH children’s cancer centre transplant head Dr Francoise Mechinaud said “He’s adjusting very well, he’s very well supported by his parents … he’s not scared, he is a happy child”.

Words by Marianne Betts.

Click here to read the full story on Aston on the Herald Sun website.