Neena Golden the very smart intern who found the bloated tick that is described as being full of fecal matter.
"He came in on a gurney, and he wasn't in good shape at all," Golden said in a phone interview with TODAY. "I knew that tick paralysis was a thing ... we'd learned about it in our medical textbooks, and I'm still studying and Adam had just graduated, so it was all fresh in our minds. But we weren't certain. I found the tick and then Dr. Stone wisely commented that perhaps it was a case of tick paralysis.
I said, 'Could it be?' and Adam looked at me and said, 'Maybe,' and then I said, 'Nah,' and then he said, 'Nah,' and then we realized this really could be our answer."