See How Woman Saved Her Baby’s Life by Spotting Something Wrong in a Photograph

A woman saved her baby’s life from a rare type of cancer by noticing something unusual about his eyes in a photo.

According to Mirror UK, when Andrea Temarantz took a picture of her 3-month-old son Ryder, she noticed his iris had turned white in the picture. It turned out Ryder, who also has Downs syndrome, had a rare – and life-threatening – form of cancer called retinoblastoma.

Andrea said: “We just hope for people to see how easy it would be to recognize this. My husband has always thought I was ‘crazy picture mom,’ but look at us now.”

Baby Ryder  was given three options – remove the eye, have targeted chemotherapy or undergo a specialist treatment at a nearby hospital. They opted to give Ryder the specialist treatment which involved giving “a teaspoon of chemotherapy” through a 6-foot-long catheter “as thin as angel hair pasta”.

This meant that Ryder would keep his eye and it usually works on 99 percent of children – and it has already been used on 1,600 kids.

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The doctor who performed the surgery, Dr David Abramson, says, “This is a cancer that is actually usually detected by parents and not by physicians. It’s a very nasty cancer that is curable and treatable.”

So early detection is the key.