A long-awaited update! 

First and foremost, I had my bi-annual MRI last week and I'm happy to announce that I am still in partial remission! My family, friends, and I are joyful to receive this news.  

I'm not sure if this was shared last year, but last August I had a full-body scan to be sure the cancer hadn't spread. While there were no real signs of metastases, there were a few minor issues that were found, the most concerning being a small ground-glass nodule on one of my lungs. Because of this finding, I also had a chest CT last week to check on the nodule. Amazingly, the CT found no signs of the nodule- it disappeared!

In other news, I finished another semester and my third year at Trinity and I am doing very well in my academics. I've been able to maintain my near-perfect GPA, and I will graduate a semester early in December. Looking ahead, I will begin looking for my "big-girl job" in the fall and will hopefully begin working in January, and will hopefully begin graduate school for mental health counseling in the following summer or fall. More recently, I just finished a summer class and am keeping very busy teaching swim lessons and working in admissions at the Elmhurst pools. 

As always, I am immensely grateful for the loving and supportive community I've found through my friends, family, church, and school- thank you for your prayers! Here's to another fun six months :)