Since walking difficulties becoming bigger it becomes very risky to continue with school... So... 

We continue the chemotherapy with the new drug, but it doesn't look very effective. Unfortunately...

Dimitris nameday today... But no interest of anyone to celebrate... During last two weeks Dimitris is at home, he can move only with the help of his mother or myself, or with a wheelchair, but most importantly he has lost any interest on anything... it looks like he doesn't care anymore... He just stopped fighting... My little boy, after 11 months of hard fight, is too tired to fight more... Who can blame him???

During last weeks we have been in contact with the only palliative care organization in Greece... Doctors told us that palliation is the only way from here... Dimitris cannot survive... At least, we have to make his last weeks as comfortable and easy as possible... How easy it is for a parent to write these words??? And how possible is it to accept them??? We are getting ready for the worse, but we still hope for the best...

I came back earlier today from work... Dimitris was lying on his bed... He looked at me, his blue eyes looked so tired, and when I kissed him and talked to him a bit, he suddenly had his first seizure... We had to put him in deep sleep... A deep sleep that lasted 13 days... 

Dimitris has been sleeping for the last 13 days.  Every time we tried to stop the suppression medicaments, seizures immediately started... So, we had to continue... All night I was next to him... I was playing his favorite Playstation game, talking to him like we were playing together... His hands and feet where so cold... but when I tried to get his temperature I got a high fever indication.... This couldn't be good... The nurse came immediately... From her reactions I understood that the end was very near... At 08:24 of the 20th of November, 2014, Dimitris left for a better world... Until the last moment he was in his house, with his family next to him, hugging and kissing him... 

He will never be forgotten... He fought like a hero... He fought like Leonidas in Thermopylae... He fought a fight against an unbeatable opponent... And he fought not as a child but as an adult... And in everyone's mind he is a true winner.

Dimitris was diagnosed on Nov. 12, 2014... After that, we had our last Christmas, our last Easter, our last birthday, our last summer vacation, our last first day at school, our last nameday... Dimitris passed away on the 20th of November... The day he had his very first treatment... A complete, one year-cycle...