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29 patient focus cannapatientcare.com october 2022 | cannabis patient care wish every parent would look at it the way that I did. I mean, our kids are here for a second, right? They're here for a second. And all they know is pain. This gave her quality of life. This gave her happiness. This gave her the ability to eat. I mean, it gave me my daughter back." Overcoming Challenges It wasn't easy originally to decide to use cannabis. Since her daughter was a minor, there are certain laws and regulations which create a stickier situation. The best way to get informed was to do her own research. Hall started watching documen- taries, discussing with people in the cannabis industry, and joining Facebook groups to weigh all her options before diving into cannabis as a treatment plan. "She can't die from cannabis. She can't overdose from this. There are no long-term side effects," said Hall. "The worst short term side effect I saw was that she slept. She slept a lot. When you're looking at all the options in front of you and none of them are good, cannabis makes the most sense. I honestly speak about it so much because we shouldn't wait until the last second to do this. We should know ahead of time. Our kids don't have to suffer like that. They could try a plant, and maybe it'll work, maybe it won't, but it's not inva- sive. It's way less invasive than chemo or radiation and I just, honestly, I want to give my daughter the best quality of life. That's what cannabis gave her." During Brooklyn's pharmaceutical treatment plan, her body was just skin and bones. There was no meat on her. It was de- stroying her body, ultimately killing her. To deal with the pain, doctors had prescribed her morphine. "That was the real kick- er for me. We give our kids these treatments and you trust your doctors and you trust the medicine they prescribe you. But in 20 years, am I going to have to deal with addiction issues because of the things she was prescribed? And it wasn't helping her. We ended up bringing her to the hospital at one point because, I mean, she was dying and they wanted to hook her up to a mor- phine IV because the oral morphine wasn't enough," Hall said. Once medical professionals wanted to put an IV in her daugh- ter's arm, Hall had enough. Switching to RSO, they bumped up her dosage and cannabis offered hope. The plant provided a pro- found impact on her healing and gave Brooklyn her quality of life back. Ever since her fifth birthday, she takes RSO every night. During the day, Brooklyn sometimes will have a gummy contain- ing around 5 mg of THC to help her mood and irritability caused from the TBI. Hall utilizes RSO to maintain her daughter's can- cer diagnosis. The tumors have shrunk and disappeared. She is currently considered cancer free, but she's not out of the woods according to her doctors. Brooklyn receives maintenance scans once a year now to watch for any new tumors. Cannabis is one of the most scrutinized and judged plants on the planet. Giving this miracle plant to her daughter, Hall knew she was going to receive criticism on this decision. "Can- cer parents are judged in general. We're often called scam- mers or accused of milking it. But this is our forever. We're blindsided by it, and then forced to keep our ship afloat, and Brooklyn, also known as Danger Girl, holding her radiation mask after completing 33 rounds of radiation to her brain at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee (January 2018). Brooklyn and her brother Logan sharing a giggle days after her emergency brain surgery at Golisano Children's Hospital.