Paralyzed teen takes weight lifting classes with mom: 'Strong like you'
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Juliet Porras and her daughter Elena have been taking weight lifting classes together for the last five years.
"I’ve learned just how much better [strength training] makes me as a mother and as a human being." "She’s very determined and strong-willed and strong-minded… She takes that approach with everything."
Porras, 40, a single mom, told Fox News Digital that when Elena was born, she was diagnosed with stage 3 neuroblastoma – a cancer that develops from immature nerve cells, according to Mayo Clinic. Twelve hours after she was born, Elena started her first round of chemotherapy.
Critically endangered whale seen off California coast: 'Every sighting is incredibly valuable to us'
In a rare sighting recently, the endangered North Pacific right whale was spotted off the coast of California by a marine wildlife team near Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary.