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‘‘I’m feeling good,” Lindsey said last week inside her home, calling the battle a long one.

She received the good news this month.

With her IV lines out and spots on her lungs clearing up, Lindsey is now attending Century High full time and looks to get back on the mound pitching for the Century Knights softball team in the spring.

‘‘I like being able to be back and being able to hang out with my friends in the morning before classes,” she said.

Lindsey and her family decided a holistic approach was best for her to get better and thinks that is one of the keys to her improved health.

The September benefit concert, ‘‘For Lindsey, A Night of Inspiration,” helped pay for her holistic treatment because it was not covered by insurance, said Lindsey’s mother, Elizabeth Wilson.

‘‘It was overwhelming,” Elizabeth said about the support at the concert.

Lindsey’s holistic approach includes a strict diet, and waking up at 5:30 a.m. to exercise before school to increase strength and gain back the 31 pounds she lost during treatment.

Even with the holistic approach, her chemotherapy and treatment took a toll on Lindsey.

She has ‘‘chemo brain” as Elizabeth calls it, where Lindsey has trouble with her memory.

Lindsey would spend from three to five days at a time at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore for treatment.

‘‘You don’t really know days anymore,” Lindsey said. ‘‘Like, how long am I in here?”

To distract herself, she would zone in on movies, games and a new love, origami.

‘‘It was just non-stop origami,” Elizabeth said.

Lindsey said she loved to make the paper art for people and is continuing her hobby.

‘‘I like making it all,” she said. ‘‘Whatever makes people smile.”

Lindsey said all of her friends and her youth group were there for her throughout the treatment.

Beth Lauren of Sykesville, a youth group leader at Winfield Bible Chapel, is amazed at how Lindsey has handled her cancer and persevered.

‘‘The greatest thing I noticed form the very beginning was such a calm presence that she had regarding this devastating diagnosis,” she said.

Lauren said Lindsey’s faith, family and friends supported her through the journey.

‘‘It was just obvious really what we’ve seen play out over this past year was her truly rocking in her faith and trusting God to carry her through every point,” she said.

Her youth group also benefited, Lauren said.

‘‘It expanded their world view to see a teen go through this and often, were moved to tears,” she said.

Elizabeth and Lindsey are relieved, but know they will never be done with thinking about the cancer and pray that it doesn’t come back, knowing that the chances are high for the cancer to come back in the first five years of recovery.

‘‘This is going to be an ongoing thing,” Elizabeth said. ‘‘A lot of the stuff that she has to do is going to be for the rest of her life.”