Erica SchecterinEnding My Twenties With Hodgkin’s LymphomaA Cancer Survivor Turns 30Growing up, my imagination was easily captured by historical fiction and fantasy books, by the idea of living in a world very different…Apr 14, 20171Apr 14, 20171
Erica SchecterinEnding My Twenties With Hodgkin’s LymphomaHow My Body Became A Stranger“I’m going to tattoo you now, and this will be permanent.”Feb 1, 201722Feb 1, 201722
Erica SchecterinEnding My Twenties With Hodgkin’s LymphomaI Miss the Catcalls: Grieving Beauty After CancerBeauty 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, 20164Dec 21, 20164
Erica SchecterinEnding My Twenties With Hodgkin’s LymphomaAn Introvert’s Guide to Surviving Her Cancer Support SystemAbout 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, 20161Oct 14, 20161
Erica SchecterinEnding My Twenties With Hodgkin’s LymphomaIs 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, 20169Oct 8, 20169
Erica SchecterinEnding My Twenties With Hodgkin’s LymphomaVanity and Chemo: Cancer Can’t Take My EyebrowsI 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, 201614Sep 20, 201614
Erica SchecterinEnding My Twenties With Hodgkin’s LymphomaIt Could Kill Me, Loving Men Like TheseI 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, 20168Sep 9, 20168
Erica SchecterinEnding My Twenties With Hodgkin’s LymphomaBut 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, 20163Aug 23, 20163
Erica SchecterinEnding My Twenties With Hodgkin’s LymphomaThe Novel I’m Not WritingThere’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, 20162Aug 22, 20162
Erica SchecterinEnding My Twenties With Hodgkin’s LymphomaMaking a Cancer PatientOn 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, 20161Aug 21, 20161