A SALTASH teenager has received a hard-to-find PlayStation 2 from the Starlight Children's Foundation.
Fifteen-year-old Robert Horne was diagnosed with Hodgkins Disease last September, and is due to finish his treatment for the disease - which affects the glands - in about two months time, at the end of March.
The Plymouth College student had his name put forward last year to the children's charity by his social worker, and representative for Starlight, Di Maynard.
As a result he was granted three special wishes - one being for the PlayStation 2, and the other for a laptop computer.
He declined to take a third wish, as he was happy with what he had been given.
Robert, who is currently studying for his GCSE examinations, which he will sit this summer, has also decided to hand on some of his luck.
He has decided to part with his old PlayStation when his treatment is finished.
He will then donate it to Plymouth's Derriford Hospital, for use in the children's ward there.
Robert's mother, Gillian, said that they have been told that he will eventually be cured.
She added she was grateful for the support given to him by the Starlight charity, the Clic nurses, the staff at Derriford and friends and colleagues.
She said receiving the game and computer equipment gave him a real boost, explaining: 'To see his face when he got the PlayStation was lovely.'
The Children's Foundation gives wishes, and entertains in hospital, children who are chronically, critically or terminally ill.