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Ending My Twenties With Hodgkin’s Lymphoma

A Cancer Survivor Turns 30

Growing up, my imagination was easily captured by historical fiction and fantasy books, by the idea of living in a world very different…

Apr 14, 2017

A Cancer Survivor Turns 30

Apr 14, 2017

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Ending My Twenties With Hodgkin’s Lymphoma

How My Body Became A Stranger

“I’m going to tattoo you now, and this will be permanent.”

Feb 1, 2017

How My Body Became A Stranger

Feb 1, 2017

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Ending My Twenties With Hodgkin’s Lymphoma

I Miss the Catcalls: Grieving Beauty After Cancer

Beauty is a difficult thing to lose all at once. I’ve heard that it’s even a difficult thing to lose slowly, year by year, over decades. I…

Dec 21, 2016

I Miss the Catcalls: Grieving Beauty After Cancer

Dec 21, 2016

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Ending My Twenties With Hodgkin’s Lymphoma

An Introvert’s Guide to Surviving Her Cancer Support System

About a month after I learned that I realistically had cancer, I hit bottom. It didn’t look like the stressed out, anxious period I’d spent…

Oct 14, 2016

An Introvert’s Guide to Surviving Her Cancer Support System

Oct 14, 2016

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Ending My Twenties With Hodgkin’s Lymphoma

Is My Cancer Getting You Down? Let Me Help With That.

Last night, a friend asked me how I was doing. “I’m depressed,” I said. “My hair’s falling out and I have writer’s block.”

Oct 8, 2016

Is My Cancer Getting You Down? Let Me Help With That.

Oct 8, 2016

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Ending My Twenties With Hodgkin’s Lymphoma

Vanity and Chemo: Cancer Can’t Take My Eyebrows

I expect there are very few people who realize how vain I am. I mention it sometimes — literally, I tell people, “I’m really, really vain”…

Sep 20, 2016

Vanity and Chemo: Cancer Can’t Take My Eyebrows

Sep 20, 2016

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Ending My Twenties With Hodgkin’s Lymphoma

It Could Kill Me, Loving Men Like These

I had my first cancer epiphany before I knew for sure that I had cancer. I was on the Q train, crossing the bridge from Manhattan into…

Sep 9, 2016

It Could Kill Me, Loving Men Like These

Sep 9, 2016

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But I’m Already Sick: Thoughts on Cancer Privilege and Bloody Poop

“I’ve been sick for the past nine years!” This phrase keeps running through my mind and I want to shout it: at the doctors performing their…

Aug 23, 2016

But I’m Already Sick: Thoughts on Cancer Privilege and Bloody Poop

Aug 23, 2016

Erica Schecter
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Ending My Twenties With Hodgkin’s Lymphoma

The Novel I’m Not Writing

There’s a 300-page novel manuscript sitting on my desk. To write it, I had to hitchhike across the country, walk away from the man I…

Aug 22, 2016

The Novel I’m Not Writing

Aug 22, 2016

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Ending My Twenties With Hodgkin’s Lymphoma

Making a Cancer Patient

On Monday, August 15th my doctor told me that “realistically” I have lymphoma. I texted the Kitten and asked her to come over after work…

Aug 21, 2016

Making a Cancer Patient

Aug 21, 2016

Erica Schecter

Erica Schecter

Writer and editor in New York. In 2016, at the age of 29, I underwent treatment for Hodgkin’s lymphoma. ericajschecter.com

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