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South Carolina moms journey through her daughters cancer [Video]
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South Carolina moms journey through her daughters cancer [Video]

An Upstate mom shares the uphill battle to recovery from her daughter’s cancer and is grateful for where they are now. Kylie Jeter, 3, is an energetic little girl, but just a few years ago, it was a different story.”She was sick for a couple weeks. Having fevers, throwing up constantly. I kept taking her back to the pediatrician and they were saying she had like stomach bug that lasted a long time,” said Shaylone Jeter, Kylie’s mom.Jeter says she found a knot the size of a golf ball on Kylie’s right side and took her to the emergency room. “They told me that they found lesions on her liver,” said Jeter.They went to MUSC in Charleston, where they diagnosed Kylie with hepatoblastoma in November 2022. Shaylone Jeter’s reaction?”Devastation, because when you think of cancer, you think of bad stuff,” she said.Kylie went through six rounds of chemotherapy.”She had clinical trial is what we had her put in instead of getting a combination of chemo she got one chemo,” Jeter said.The treatment wasn’t as effective as they hoped, so doctors told her that Kylie needed a liver transplant.As of now, her treatment is complete, but she will have to be monitored. “Her care is going to be managed for the rest of her life,” Jeter said.Jeter is happy that now her daughter, Kylie, is a healthy 3-year-old.”Right now, she’s perfect. She’s back to her normal self,” said Jeter.They’re in the process of starting the Kylie Lives Strong Cancer Foundation to help other parents.”Someone that they can lean on as far as financial, spiritual, anything that they might need, we’re going to try and provide that for them,” Jeter said.Jeter’s advice to any parent going through the same journey is to ask as many questions as you can and, if you believe in God, to pray daily.

Guided Hikes Offer Adventure This Fall At Pere Marquette [Video]
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Guided Hikes Offer Adventure This Fall At Pere Marquette [Video]

[video:7499]GRAFTON – Hiking enthusiasts and outdoor adventurers can look forward to a series of on-trail and off-trail guided hikes starting this fall at Pere Marquette State Park. The hikes are set for each Saturday and Sunday from Sept. 14 to Oct. 27, 2024.Each Saturday’s on-trail hikes will start at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m., with the Visitor’s Center serving as the starting point for both time slots. Additional on-trail hikes will be held each following Sunday morning at 10 a.m., with off-trail hikes taking place on Sunday afternoons at 1 p.m.Lev Smolianski, the natural resource coordinator for Pere Marquette, said on Our Daily Show! on Riverbender.com that the off-trail hikes offer a more adventurous approach to exploring the park.“Off-trail hikes are going to be geared towards people who want a little more adventure, more strenuous of a hike,” he said. “They’re going to get dirty, they might get stung, it’s going to be a great time.”Each hike also offers an educational experience, teaching hikers more about what the nature of the region has to offer – including the native the paw-paw plant, which is often sampled by hikers.“I really enjoy teaching people about the ecology of their backyard,” he said. “I also really enjoy feeding people wild plants and seeing their faces light up when they eat a paw-paw for the first time.”Smolianski added that while the park has nine miles of hiking trails, only about 15-25% of the park is accessible by trail – explorers will need to stray from the path if they “want to learn some secrets about Pere Marquette, want to see some old homesteads, caves, fire roads – things you don’t really get to see.”To find out more about these guided hikes and other events coming up this fall at Pere Marquette, stay tuned to their Facebook page or website, or see the full interview with Smolianski at the top of this story or on Riverbender.com/video.