A BRAVE two-year-old boy battling back to health after life-saving surgery to remove a brain tumour is enjoying a weekend at home before starting the next stage of his recovery.

Billy Tyler has spent the last few weeks at Birmingham Children’s Hospital after his 10-hour emergency operation to remove a medulloblastoma – a malignant brain tumour more common in young children.

He is now facing an eight-month course of chemotherapy, but received a huge boost when doctors told his doting parents Debbie Reynolds and Gary Tyler they could bring him home to Worcester for the weekend before the treatment begins on Monday.

The family are staying with Billy’s grandparents as they were in the process of moving out of their own home when he was first diagnosed.

Miss Reynolds said it was “fantastic” to be able to bring Billy home while Mr Tyler said they planned to “make the most” of being back in Worcester.

“It’s great that Billy gets to come home and see granny and grandad,” he said. “Billy is very excited about it. His strength is coming back slowly and to see him in good health and very much the boy that we knew before is wonderful for us.”

Billy had been scheduled to spend last weekend at home, but had to be rushed back into hospital just a few hours after returning when fluid started to leak from the stitches in his head.

He had to undergo another operation to put in a “shunt” – an internal drain to direct fluid away from his brain.

Come Monday the serious business begins once again for Billy, when he starts his intensive chemotherapy treatment.