Exclusive Interview: Jennifer Crystal Reveals the Shocking Inspiration Behind One Tick Stopped the Clock
For years, she endured a myriad of symptoms such as Mono, Epstein-Barr Virus, sinus infections. She pushed through so many of these so she could move to Colorado, but after a year there, she came back to Connecticut. It took another two years to find a doctor who knew Lyme disease, and another several years of treatment for Jennifer to get better.
Recently, I was excited to talk with Jennifer on Zoom about her writing process for One Tick Stopped the Clock.
Morgan Baker: One of the things I tell my students is that their stories – essays and memoirs – can be about them, but often the stories do represent a bigger theme or issue. Your book did that. While it was about you and your journey with Lyme disease, it’s really about living with chronic illness and how that affects both the patient and those who love that person.
