How An iPhone Photo Saved A 2 Year Old's Life

When Julie Fitzgerald took a photo of her two-year-old-son Avery, she got a pit in her stomach.

The 31-year-old mother-of-three from Rockford, Illinois, saw part of his pupil was white and immediately sensed something was wrong.

Concerned she typed in the symptoms online, and an account by a woman said it turned out to be cancer.

After doctors examined the youngster they revealed he had a retinoblastoma and 75 per cent of his eye was covered in tumors. 

They told his parents if they had waited any longer to get him tested, it could have spread to his blood and brain.

Avery's eye was removed and he is now set for a prosthetic.  

Mrs Fitzgerald told WREX: 'Probably a couple months I would notice when I was looking at Avery in a light I would see something in the back of his eye.

'I took a picture and I did not want to take the picture because I had this dreaded feeling in the pit of my stomach and I took the picture and boom. His whole pupil was just white and that's when I knew.'

After taking the photo she took him to a specialist.

'He took one look and said there are multiple, multiple tumors,' she said.

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