Hello! It has been several weeks since my last post, in fact just about 2 months. Last time we chatted I had just finished up round #10. Rounds 11 and 12 were difficult and with the holidays and family visiting I didn't get around to writing. 
I am so so so so thankful for the Cancer Center team at Froedtert and the Medical College of WI. My experience has been amazing and I am so blessed by the kindness and compassion shown to me and my family (and friends like family) by those that have cared for me (us). 
I was disconnected from my last round of chemo on 1/4 and each day since I feel better and better and more like myself. The day of my disconnect one of the nurses (Laura) swapped with another nurse to give me my bolus and disconnect the chemo. It was so special as my sister-in-law Carol and I worked with Laura in the Children's ED back in the 90s-early 2000s. I was a family liaison at the triage desk back then just starting nursing school and they were RNs. After my disconnect all the nurses paraded me out with maracas and tambourines to the wind chimes just outside the infusion center. They had me read a poem and then ring the chimes. There were cheers and clapping from the staff and even those in the waiting room and hugs all around. It was amazing! When John and I got back to the car he told me that the first day we came to meet the oncologist after diagnosis he got to witness someone else go through the parade and chime process while I was having labs drawn. He said he was so moved by that and thought what that moment would be like for us and remembered back to it for hope and refocus when he was worrying. For those of you that know John know that he is a man of few words and didn't tell me about his experience until after. It is a great reminder about perspective. Each of our experiences are unique even during the same walk.
I had my follow-up CT scan and labs at the end of January. Labs are normalizing. The scan revealed a questionable lymph node near my liver/portal vein area and a slightly enlarged spleen. Dr. A. Is going to have me rescan in 3 months instead of 6 just to be diligent. I am good with that plan. 
I am so thankful for all of your prayers, cards, meals, texts, calls, and visits. They were such a source of inspiration for me and my family. I pray the cancer is gone forever and I know you pray that for me also. No matter what the future holds I still know I am so blessed and the luckiest kid I know and will tackle whatever comes my way head on. 
I do have an ask for all of you. If you haven't gotten your colonoscopy and you are due, call and get it on the books. Colon, uterine, bladder, prostate cancer are hard to detect and there are limited options for screening. Don't ignore small changes, get them checked. And skip the Cologuard if you can and get the colonoscopy. I had the Cologuard and it didn't pick up anything. The docs agree that the tumor had been growing awhile due to its size and staging and the Cologuard missed it, and I didn't have any symptoms until it was stage 3B. 

Thanks again, one and all! I will write an update after my scan and labs at the end of April. 

Love, Mary