CITRUS COUNTY, Fla. — It's still tough for Kelli Caudill to think back to her daughter's battle with Preeclampsia while pregnant with her first son last year. 

  • Women to hike Mount Kilimanjaro
  • Charity hike to raise awareness of HELLP Syndrome

"We didn't know if she was going to make it then," Caudill said.  "It was a year. It's been a year."

Kylie Mohr had a severe form of preeclampsia known as HELLP syndrome, nearly losing her life. 

According to the Preeclampsia Foundation, about 25 percent of women with HELLP Syndrome end up dying from the condition. 

Mohr's kidneys failed and she had to go on dialysis, but Mohr says through it all her mom was there.

"I was on dialysis and my husband was deployed so it was just me and the baby and she would just be there at the drop of the hat," Mohr said. 

Today, Mohr is doing great thanks to the help of her mom who gave her one of her kidneys. 

Before all these complications, the pair was planning to hike Mount Kilimanjaro in February to celebrate their birthdays, but Mohr won't be able to go because of her condition. 

So Caudill and one of her other daughters decided to turn the trip into a charity hike benefiting the Preeclampsia Foundation. 

"We needed something to do with our energy with our grief and our anger and our feeling of helplessness," she said. 

They'll be joined by four other women, two who had HELLP Syndrome themselves. 

"I'm so ridiculously proud of her. It's crazy," Mohr said. "It will really prevent a lot of injury and a lot of death if people were just more aware of it and knew what to look out for," she added. 

"I'm doing this for her. This is our trip that we didn't get to take," Caudill explained. 

Caudill is collecting donations for the trip, which will go to the Preeclampsia Foundation. You can find out more information on their Facebook page