A year ago brothers Giorgios and Nikolas Papastratis could only interact through the glass door to Nikolas’ room at The Royal Children’s Hospital.

Nikolas was in isolation while awaiting a life-saving bone-marrow transplant from his older brother Giorgios, after being diagnosed with an aggressive and treatment-resistant form of acute lymphoblastic leukaemia, called MLL.

After a harrowing year for the Papastratis family, including a relapse, two-year-old Nikolas is finally entering remission but will still undergo radiotherapy before two-years of oral chemotherapy.

Father Stel said 11-year-old Giorgios had played a big part in Nikolas’ recovery and the boys would always share a special bond over the gift of life that had been granted.

“He always says: ‘Giorgios, not go to school’. He never wants to be apart from him.”

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