A Mom Saves Her 2-Year-Old Son's Life With a Cellphone Photo

Photographs are taken every day, but for one mom, a single photo changed her son's life. When Julie Fitzgerald first noticed spots on her 2-year-old's eye, she brushed it off. That was until she came across a viral story on Facebook about how a white glow that appeared in someone's eye in photos could mean cancer. The mom decided to snap a photo of her son Avery on her cellphone, and when she looked at the picture, she discovered the white glow. "I just had this gut feeling in my stomach that something was wrong with his eye," she said to ABC News.

That feeling was spot on when doctors diagnosed Avery with retinoblastoma and said that cancerous tumors covered 75 percent of his eye. Julie said Avery's eye had to be removed to prevent the cancer from spreading to his brain but that the cancer had been caught just in time. "Our lives went from normal to cancer to a cancer survivor in three weeks," said Julie. "It turned out to be our worst nightmare, but it saved our son's life." Watch the video above to hear Avery's story and see what the potential signs of eye cancer may be.