He stretches his arms out to her and picks up the smiling girl before dancing with her. Phoenix is currently fighting a rare and difficult form of cancer underneath her beaming exterior. She was diagnosed on August 2 after her step-mother, Christina Thompson, took notice of a number of subtleties in Phoenix’s health and temperament. Phoenix, from Winder, Georgia, was confirmed to be suffering from juvenile myelomonocytic leukaemia (JMML). Rushed into the hospital the same day, Phoenix began her first of four rounds of chemotherapy on August 6 which lasted for ten days.
