Author · Survivor · Advocate
Two books coming 2026. One nearly cost her her life.
Both could save yours.
A Tick Survivor's Warning About the Growing Tick Crisis Don't Brush It Off
In the summer of 1984, Jennifer and her brother were given days to live in a Florida hospital. The doctors had run out of answers. Her grandmother hadn't because she had read something in a magazine and refused to brush it off.
Part memoir, part public health warning, Bitten weaves Jennifer's survival story through everything you need to know about the growing tick crisis from Lyme disease and Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever to Alpha-Gal Syndrome, anaplasmosis, and a Congressional investigation into whether the government weaponized ticks.
Emergency room visits for tick bites are at a nine-year high. The first documented death from a tick-caused meat allergy happened in November 2025. The ticks are not going away. This book tells you what to do about it.
When the Number Doesn't Make Sense
When her husband's testosterone came back at a level of 3, Jennifer refused to accept the explanations that almost made sense. Two years later they found a pituitary tumor the size of a grape. He had brain surgery. He is alive. This is the book she couldn't find when she needed it.
Join the List for Updates"My grandmother was not a medical professional. She was a woman sitting at home reading a magazine. She saved our lives."Jennifer Saterdal, Bitten
Jennifer Saterdal is a writer, survivor, and advocate based in Puyallup, Washington. At age nine she was given one day to live from Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever a tick-borne illness that kills within eight days if untreated. Her grandmother saved her life by recognizing her symptoms from a magazine article.
That experience shaped everything. Jennifer has spent her life paying attention to what the medical system misses for her family, for herself, and now for her readers. She sat vigil through her dad's heart surgery, her brother's ICU meningitis coma, her daughter's years-delayed celiac diagnosis, and her husband's brain surgery for a pituitary tumor that none of his doctors found until she refused to stop pushing.
She is not a doctor. She is something more useful in a waiting room: someone who doesn't brush things off.
Her first book Bitten releases in 2026. Her second, Low Testosterone: The Pituitary Connection, follows in fall 2026.
Available for media interviews, podcast appearances, and speaking engagements.
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Everything you need to know before you go outside this season in one printable page. Where ticks hide, how to remove them, and exactly what to say to your doctor.
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Jennifer is available for television interviews, podcast appearances, and speaking engagements. She brings a local Pacific Northwest story with national urgency tick-borne illness is rising, and she survived it.
Local survivor with national story. Available for health segments on tick season, Alpha-Gal Syndrome, the Congressional tick investigation, and patient advocacy.
Book Jennifer →From survival stories to medical advocacy to the government's tick research program Jennifer's story works across health, memoir, true crime, and women's interest formats.
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