Your laps will change lives

When four-year-old Oliver woke up one morning and said, "Mummy, I can't sit up," his mum Belinda never imagined the trauma that lay ahead. Tests ultimately showed that Oliver had Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) a rare neurological disorder.

From that moment on, hospital became their life. Oliver's baby brother Will was only nine months old and Belinda said it was heartbreaking being apart from him and her husband Ryan.

Amid the family's unbearable sadness, Captain Starlight arrived, and Belinda said the impact on Oliver was instant.

"The Captains made Oliver laugh for the first time since he'd been admitted," she said. "Once he was well enough to go in a wheelchair, we would bribe him to get out of his hospital bed to go to see Captain Starlight in the Starlight Express Room."