LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Little Alphonso Turner, or AJ, has had it tough. The two-year-old has leukemia and recently had part of his lip amputated. But that didn't stop him from dancing with a nurse in his room at Arkansas Children's Hospital. His mom got it all on video.
AJ has nearly died twice in one day.
"It happened so fast," Turner's mother Katrina Morris said. "We just found out that he had cancer. Out of nowhere, he caught an infection and it turned black, like fast."
The type of infection had never been dealt with by the staff working on AJ, so it was challenging.
"He was fighting two things at once," Morris said. "And they didn't think he was going to survive. He almost died twice in one day. When he went down for surgery, they said he wasn't going to make it. Thank God, a miracle, he made it."
That's not the only miracle in AJ's family. His aunt was recently shot in the head and survived.
Chemotherapy and being in the hospital has drained little AJ. But one day, the music was going and his nurse started dancing. AJ decided to join in.
"That video is really the first time we've seen him have energy," Morris said. "That video is just when we found out he could make it. And out of nowhere, he started dancing with the nurse."
AJ may have plastic surgery in two years when he's able to stop chemotherapy. But he's in remission.