Tracy Popalo of Lemoyne never thought she’d be an advocate for medicinal marijuana — but, then again, she also never thought she’d have to watch her 11-year-old daughter suffer from otherwise untreatable epilepsy.
Kylie Popalo endures 80 seizures per day despite medicines that are causing her liver and kidneys to fail, her mother said. Without the medicine, her seizures would increase and eventually build to status epilepticus, a potentially fatal state of persistent seizure, she said doctors have told her.
