Exclusive Interview: Jennifer Crystal Reveals the Shocking Inspiration Behind One Tick Stopped the Clock
MB: I tell my students that if they’re going to write about somebody, you need to put yourself in their shoes and you need to write with compassion. I think you did that. The other thing you did well was to show how people don’t always listen to the patient, but they will listen to a doctor.
JC: That was frustrating. Even when my dad and stepmom go to the conference, and they come flying in the door and announce, “You really have Lyme disease.” That’s what I’ve been trying to say. But they’ll be the first to tell you that conference was their “aha” moment… It had to come from doctors. At the conference they met Lyme doctors and a lot of patient families. They realized lots of people out there were going through the same thing. It normalized it for them.
