GREENEVILLE, TN (WJHL)- Last year we told you about a family in Greeneville who pushed to decriminalize cannabis oil to treat their young daughter’s seizures.

A year later we checked in with the family and learned the oil has helped Penelope McCall become nearly seizure free. The said she is more alert and engaged now that she is off traditional seizure medications. A big victory for them, but now they are facing an even bigger diagnosis, totally unrelated to her epilepsy.

An MRI found multiple tumors in her spine and at the top of her brain stem.

“It is a rare, very aggressive, very malignant brain tumor called medulloepithelioma,” Penelope’s Mom Ellen McCall said.

Given few options and no cure, the McCalls chose a low-dose, at home chemotherapy treatment for their girl.

“They already told us her life expectancy would just be weeks to months so we didn’t want those last few months to be spent in the hospital,” McCall said.

To hear those words about your 22-month old daughter, “Heartbreak. With her special needs and everything else going on we never knew, we never knew a life expectancy, in the back of our minds we always kind of expected something to take her earlier, but now it’s kind of just set in stone,” McCall said.

After advocating for cannabis oil, Ellen McCall said she is now pushing to legalize medical marijuana.

She said the cannabis oil has helped Penelope with the side effects of the chemo but says a more powerful oil from the marijuana plant would help with her daughter’s pain.

After the diagnosis the McCalls are taking this time to make all the memories they can with Penelope.

“We’re the type of people that like to focus on the positives. We can’t live in the negatives, I mean we just couldn’t function like that. So we’ve made her a bucket list,” McCall said.

So far they’ve been to the zoo, Graceland, even on a motorcycle ride.

McCall said another positive has been their community.

“It has been amazing how many people will come together for one little girl,” McCall said.

While the McCalls were in Memphis finding out Penelope’s cancer diagnosis, dozens of people circled up at the football stadium back home in Greeneville and prayed.

“I don’t even have words to say how amazing the community has been,” McCall said.

Next week the McCalls are heading to the beach, the next thing on Penelope’s bucket list.

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