TEDxDU 2011
Ramona Pierson: An unexpected place of healing
Ramona Pierson: Neočekivano mjesto ozdravljenja
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Kada je Ramona Pierson imala 22 godine, udario ju je pijani vozač i 18 je mjeseci bila u komi. Na TEDxDU ispričala je ovu izvanrednu priču o svom oporavku - oslanjajući se na kolektivne vještine i mudrosti stanovnika doma za umirovljenike
Ramona Pierson - Education innovator
Ramona Pierson develops tools to revolutionize learning management and assessment systems -- her fourth career after aviation, neuropsychology and software development. Full bio
Ramona Pierson develops tools to revolutionize learning management and assessment systems -- her fourth career after aviation, neuropsychology and software development. Full bio
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I'm actually going to share something with you
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Podijelit ću s vama nešto
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I haven't talked about probably in more than 10 years.
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o čemu nisam pričala više od deset godina.
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So bear with me
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Imajte strpljenja
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as I take you through this journey.
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dok vam pričam o tome.
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When I was 22 years old,
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Kada sam imala 22 godine,
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I came home from work, put a leash on my dog
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došla sam kući s posla, stavila svog psa na povodac
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and went for my usual run.
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i krenula na trčanje.
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I had no idea that at that moment
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U tom trenutku nisam imala pojma
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my life was going to change forever.
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da će se moj život zauvijek promijeniti.
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While I was preparing my dog for the run,
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Dok sam pripremala psa,
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a man was finishing drinking at a bar,
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jedan je čovjek popio piće u kafiću,
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picked up his car keys, got into a car
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uzeo ključeve od auta, sjeo u auto
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and headed south,
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i krenuo prema jugu,
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or wherever he was.
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ili gdje već.
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I was running across the street,
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Trčala sam preko ceste
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and the only thing that I actually remember
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i jedino čega se sjećam
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is feeling like a grenade went off in my head.
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je osjećaj kao da mi je granata eksplodirala u glavi.
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And I remember putting my hands on the ground
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Sjećam se i pada na tlo
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and feeling my life's blood
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i sjećam se kako mi je krv
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emptying out of my neck
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istjecala kroz vrat
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and my mouth.
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i usta.
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What had happened
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Dogodilo se da je muškarac
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is he ran a red light and hit me and my dog.
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prošao kroz crveno svjetlo i udario mene i mog psa.
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She ended up underneath the car.
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Pas je završio ispod auta.
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I flew out in front of the car,
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Ja sam odletjela prema naprijed,
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and then he ran over my legs.
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a onda mi je auto prešao preko nogu.
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My left leg got caught up in the wheel well --
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Lijeva mi je noga zapela s unutrašnje strane blatobrana --
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spun it around.
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te se vrtjela zajedno s kotačem.
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The bumper of the car hit my throat,
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Branik mi je
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slicing it open.
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razrezao grlo.
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I ended up with blunt chest trauma.
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Ležala sam tamo s tupom traumom prsnog koša.
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Your aorta comes up behind your heart.
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Aorta, glavna arterija koja ide iz srca,
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It's your major artery, and it was severed,
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kod mene je bila prekinuta
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so my blood was gurgling out of my mouth.
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i krv mi istjecala kroz usta,
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It foamed,
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pjenila se
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and horrible things were happening to me.
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i grozne su mi se stvari događale.
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I had no idea what was going on,
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Nisam imala pojma što se događa,
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but strangers intervened,
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ali prolaznici su mi priskočili u pomoć,
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kept my heart moving, beating.
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i održavali su rad mog srca pokretnim.
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I say moving because it was quivering
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A pokretnim kažem iz razloga što je samo treperilo
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and they were trying to put a beat back into it.
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i oni su mu pokušavali vratiti ritam.
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Somebody was smart and put a Bic pen in my neck
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Netko se dosjetio i BIC olovkom napravio traheotomiju
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to open up my airway so that I could get some air in there.
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kako bi mi otvorio dišni put i omogućio dovod zraka.
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And my lung collapsed,
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Moja pluća su kolabirala
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so somebody cut me open and put a pin in there as well
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pa su mi stavili pribadaču i tamo,
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to stop that catastrophic event from happening.
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kako bi spriječili mnogo veću štetu.
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Somehow I ended up at the hospital.
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Nekako sam se stvorila u bolnici.
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I was wrapped in ice
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Bila sam zamotana u led
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and then eventually put into a drug-induced coma.
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i naposljetku su me odlučili staviti u induciranu komu.
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18 months later I woke up.
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Probudila sam se nakon 18 mjeseci.
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I was blind, I couldn't speak,
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Bila sam slijepa, nisam mogla govoriti
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and I couldn't walk.
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ni hodati.
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I was 64 lbs.
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Težila sam 29 kilograma.
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The hospital really has no idea
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U bolnici nisu imali pojma
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what to do with people like that.
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što učiniti s nekim poput mene.
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And in fact, they started to call me a Gomer.
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Zvali su me "Gomer",
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That's another story we won't even get into.
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no to je jedna sasvim druga priča u koju nećemo ulaziti.
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I had so many surgeries to put my neck back together,
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Bilo je potrebno mnoštvo operacija kako bi zakrpali moj vrat,
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to repair my heart a few times.
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a srce su mi popravljali nekoliko puta.
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Some things worked, some things didn't.
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Neke stvari su dobro funkcionirale, neke ne.
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I had lots of titanium put in me,
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Stavili su dosta titanija u mene,
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cadaver bones
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presadili kosti,
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to try to get my feet moving the right way.
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sve kako bih se odmah mogla kretati.
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And I ended up with a plastic nose, porcelain teeth
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Dobila sam i plastični nos, porculanske zube
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and all kinds of other things.
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i razne druge stvari.
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But eventually I started to look human again.
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Nakon nekog vremena ponovno sam počela nalikovati na ljudsko biće.
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But it's hard sometimes to talk about these things,
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Ponekad mi je teško govoriti o svemu tome,
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so bear with me.
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tako da imajte strpljenja.
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I had more than 50 surgeries.
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Imala sam više od 50 operacija.
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But who's counting?
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No, tko to još broji?
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So eventually, the hospital decided
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Na kraju je bolnica odlučila
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it was time for me to go.
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kako je vrijeme za moj odlazak.
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They needed to open up space
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Morali su osloboditi mjesto
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for somebody else that they thought could come back
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za nekog drugog za koga su smatrali da bi se mogao
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from whatever they were going through.
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vratiti u život iz nekog sličnog stanja.
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Everybody lost faith in me being able to recover.
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Svi su izgubili vjeru da ću se se ikada oporaviti.
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So they basically put a map up on the wall, threw a dart,
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U biti su stavili kartu na zid i bacili strijelicu.
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and it landed at a senior home here in Colorado.
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Ona je pogodila dom za umirovljenike ovdje u Coloradu.
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And I know all of you are scratching your head:
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Znam da se sada svi pitate:
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"A senior citizens' home? What in the world are you going to do there?"
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"Dom za umirovljenike? Što ćeš ti tamo?"
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But if you think about
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Ali, ako razmislite o
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all of the skills and talent that are in this room right now,
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vještinama i talentima koji su sada prisutni u ovoj prostoriji -
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that's what a senior home has.
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isto je takav bio domu za umirovljenike.
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So there were all these skills and talents
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Znači, tu su bile sve vještine i talenti
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that these seniors had.
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koje su umirovljenici imali.
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The one advantage that they had over most of you
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Jedina prednost koju ljudi tamo imaju u odnosu na vas
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is wisdom,
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je mudrost
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because they had a long life.
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jer su mnogo toga proživjeli.
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And I needed that wisdom at that moment in my life.
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A u tom trenutku svog života upravo sam tu mudrost trebala.
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But imagine what it was like for them
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Zamislite kako je njima bilo
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when I showed up at their doorstep?
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kada sam im se pojavila na vratima?
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At that point, I had gained four pounds,
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U međuvremenu sam dobila još dva kilograma
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so I was 68 lbs.
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pa sam u to doba imala 31 kg.
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I was bald.
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Bila sam ćelava i
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I was wearing hospital scrubs.
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odjevena u bolničku odjeću.
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And somebody donated tennis shoes for me.
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Netko mi je poklonio tenisice.
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And I had a white cane in one hand
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U jednoj sam ruci imala bijeli štap,
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and a suitcase full of medical records in another hand.
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a u drugoj kovčeg prepun liječničke dokumentacije.
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And so the senior citizens realized
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I tako su umirovljenici zaključili
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that they needed to have an emergency meeting.
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kako moraju sazvati izvanredni sastanak.
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(Laughter)
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(Smijeh)
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So they pulled back and they were looking at each other,
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Povukli su se iza i pogledavali jedni druge:
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and they were going, "Okay, what skills do we have in this room?
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"OK, što mi u ovoj prostoriji imamo za ponuditi?
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This kid needs a lot of work."
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Oko ovog djeteta bit će dosta posla."
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So they eventually started
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Počeli su
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matching their talents and skills
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usklađivati svoje mogućnosti i vještine
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to all of my needs.
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s mojim potrebama.
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But one of the first things they needed to do
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Jedna od prvih stvari koje su morali učiniti
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was assess what I needed right away.
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bilo je ustanoviti što mi je pod hitno potrebno.
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I needed to figure out
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Morala sam naučiti
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how to eat like a normal human being,
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jesti kao normalno ljudsko biće
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since I'd been eating through a tube in my chest
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jer sam već neko vrijeme jela isključivo kroz cijev u prsima
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and through my veins.
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i kroz vene.
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So I had to go through trying to eat again.
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Dakle, trebala sam naučiti jesti.
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And they went through that process.
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Krenuli su kroz taj proces.
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And then they had to figure out:
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Nakon toga su zaključili:
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"Well she needs furniture.
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"Ona treba pokućstvo.
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She is sleeping in the corner of this apartment."
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Spava u kutu stana."
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So they went to their storage lockers
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Otišli su u spremišta
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and all gathered their extra furniture --
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i skupili svo svoje dodatno pokućstvo -
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gave me pots and pans, blankets,
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dali su mi lonce i tave, pokrivače,
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everything.
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sve.
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And then the next thing that I needed
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Druga stvar koja mi je trebala
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was a makeover.
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bila je totalna promjena imidža.
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So out went the green scrubs
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Zelena bolnička odjeća
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and in came the polyester and floral prints.
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zamijenjena je poliesterom i cvjetnim uzorcima.
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(Laughter)
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(Smijeh)
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We're not going to talk about the hairstyles that they tried to force on me
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Nećemo govoriti o frizurama na koje su me pokušali prisiliti
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once my hair grew back.
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kada mi je kosa ponovo narasla.
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But I did say no to the blue hair.
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Ali odlučno sam rekla ne plavoj kosi.
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(Laughter)
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(Smijeh)
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So eventually what went on
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Nakon nekog vremena
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is they decided that, well I need to learn to speak.
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odlučili su da moram naučiti govoriti.
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So you can't be an independent person
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Ne možeš biti neovisna osoba
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if you're not able to speak and can't see.
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ako ne govoriš i ne vidiš.
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So they figured not being able to see is one thing,
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Na to što ne vidim nisu mogli utjecati,
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but they need to get me to talk.
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ali bili su odlučni u tome da moram progovoriti.
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So while Sally, the office manager,
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Sally, direktorica ustanove,
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was teaching me to speak in the day --
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učila me govoriti preko dana -
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it's hard, because when you're a kid,
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a bilo je teško jer kada si dijete
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you take things for granted.
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uzimaš takve stvari zdravo za gotovo,
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You learn things unconsciously.
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podsvjesno učiš.
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But for me, I was an adult and it was embarrassing,
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A ja sam bila odrasla i sve je to bilo veoma ponižavajuće.
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and I had to learn how to coordinate
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Morala sam naučiti koordinirati
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my new throat with my tongue
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svoje novo grlo s jezikom
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and my new teeth and my lips,
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i nove zube s usnama,
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and capture the air and get the word out.
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uhvatiti zrak i konačno, izbaciti riječ iz sebe.
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So I acted like a two-year-old
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Ponašala sam se kao dvogodišnjak
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and refused to work.
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i odbijala surađivati.
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But the men had a better idea.
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No, muškarci su imali bolju zamisao.
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They were going to make it fun for me.
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Odlučili su sve skupa učiniti zabavnijim.
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So they were teaching me cuss word Scrabble at night,
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Po noći smo učili igrajući Scrabble sa psovkama,
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(Laughter)
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(Smijeh)
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and then, secretly,
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a potajno sam
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how to swear like a sailor.
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učila kako psovati kao kočijaš.
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So I'm going to just leave it to your imagination
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Ostavit ću vašoj mašti na volju
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as to what my first words were
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koje su bile moje prve riječi
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when Sally finally got my confidence built.
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kada je Sally konačno pridobila moje povjerenje.
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(Laughter)
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(Smijeh)
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So I moved on from there.
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Nakon nekog vremena sam napredovala.
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And a former teacher who happened to have Alzheimer's
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Bivša učiteljica, koja je inače bolovala od Alzheimerove,
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took on the task of teaching me to write.
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primila se zadatka da me nauči pisati.
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The redundancy was actually good for me.
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Redundancija je zapravo bila korisna za mene.
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So we'll just keep moving on.
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Nastavljamo dalje.
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(Laughter)
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(Smijeh)
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One of the pivotal times for me
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Jedan od najznačajnijih trenutaka za mene
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was actually learning to cross a street again
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bilo je učenje kako
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as a blind person.
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kao slijepac prijeći cestu.
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So close your eyes.
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Zatvorite oči.
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Now imagine you have to cross a street.
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Sada zamislite da morate prijeći cestu.
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You don't know how far that street is
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Ne znate kako daleko je ulica,
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and you don't know if you're going straight
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ne znate idete li ravno,
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and you hear cars whizzing back and forth,
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čujete jureće automobile sa svih strana,
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and you had a horrible accident
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a strašna automobilska nesreća
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that landed you in this situation.
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vas je dovela u stanje u kojem se nalazite.
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So there were two obstacles I had to get through.
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Dakle, morala sam savladati dvije prepreke.
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One was post-traumatic stress disorder.
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Jedna je bila PTSP.
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And every time I approached the corner or the curb
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Svaki put kada bih se približila uglu ili ivičnjaku,
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I would panic.
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obuzela bi me panika.
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And the second one
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Druga prepreka
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was actually trying to figure out how to cross that street.
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bila je shvatiti kako prijeći tu cestu.
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So one of the seniors just came up to me,
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Jedna umirovljenica prišla mi je s leđa,
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and she pushed me up to the corner and she said,
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gurnula me i rekla:
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"When you think it's time to go, just stick the cane out there.
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"Kada misliš da je vrijeme za krenuti, samo ispruži svoj bijeli štap.
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If it's hit, don't cross the street."
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Ako ga nešto udari, nemoj krenuti."
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(Laughter)
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(Smijeh)
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Made perfect sense.
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Ima smisla.
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But by the third cane
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Ali, nakon trećeg bijelog štapa
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that went whizzing across the road,
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koji je odletio na ulicu,
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they realized that they needed to put the resources together,
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shvatili su da se moraju ujediniti
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and they raised funds
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i skupili su novac
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so that I could go to the Braille Institute
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kako bih mogla ići na Institut Braille
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and actually gain the skills
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gdje ću naučiti
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to be a blind person,
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kako biti slijepa osoba,
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and also to go get a guide dog
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ali i dobiti psa vodiča
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who transformed my life.
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koji će mi promijeniti život.
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And I was able to return to college
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Uspjela sam se vratiti na fakultet
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because of the senior citizens who invested in me,
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zbog umirovljenika koji su uložili u mene,
09:08
and also the guide dog and skill set I had gained.
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ali i psa vodiča i vještina koje sam stekla.
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10 years later I gained my sight back.
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Deset godina poslije, vratio mi se vid.
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Not magically.
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I to ne čudom.
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I opted in for three surgeries,
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Obavila sam tri operacije,
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and one of them was experimental.
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a jedna od njih je bila eksperimentalna.
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It was actually robotic surgery.
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To je zapravo bila robotska operacija.
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They removed a hematoma from behind my eye.
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Uklonili su hematom koji se nalazio iza mog oka.
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The biggest change for me
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Najveća promjena za mene
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was that the world moved forward,
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bila je to što je svijet toliko uznapredovao,
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that there were innovations
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postojale su inovacije
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and all kinds of new things --
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i razne vrste novih stvari -
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cellphones, laptops,
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mobiteli, prijenosna računala
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all these things that I had never seen before.
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i još mnogo stvari koje nikada nisam vidjela.
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And as a blind person,
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A kada si slijep,
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your visual memory fades
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vizualna memorija blijedi
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and is replaced with how you feel about things
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i zamijenjena je osjećajima koje pridaješ stvarima,
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and how things sound
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kako nešto zvuči
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and how things smell.
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ili miriše.
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So one day I was in my room
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Jednog dana bila sam u svojoj sobi
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and I saw this thing sitting in my room
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i ugledala neku stvar koja je sjedila na podu.
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and I thought it was a monster.
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Mislila sam da je to čudovište.
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So I was walking around it.
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Hodala sam oko njega
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And I go, "I'm just going to touch it."
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i konačno odlučila: "OK, dotaknut ću to."
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And I touched it and I went,
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I jesam... Bila je to
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"Oh my God, it's a laundry basket."
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obična košara za rublje.
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(Laughter)
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(Smijeh)
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So everything is different
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Sve je drugačije
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when you're a sighted person
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kada vidiš
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because you take that for granted.
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jer vid uzimamo zdravo za gotovo.
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But when you're blind,
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Ali, kada si slijepac
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you have the tactile memory for things.
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taktilna memorija preuzima stvari u svoje ruke.
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The biggest change for me was looking down at my hands
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Presudni trenutak za mene bio je kada sam pogledala svoje ruke
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and seeing that I'd lost 10 years of my life.
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i shvatila da sam izgubila deset godina života.
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I thought that time had stood still for some reason
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Imala sam osjećaj da je moje vrijeme stalo iz nekog razloga,
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and moved on for family and friends.
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a da je normalno teklo za moju obitelj i prijatelje.
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But when I looked down,
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Ali, kada sam pogledala dolje,
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I realized that time marched on for me too
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morala sam prihvatiti činjenicu da su i meni godine prohujale,
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and that I needed to get caught up,
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morala sam uhvatiti korak s vremenom
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so I got going on it.
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i nastaviti živjeti.
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We didn't have words like crowd-sourcing and radical collaboration
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Nismo znali za riječi "crowd-sourcing" i "radical collaboration"
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when I had my accident.
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kada sam doživjela nezgodu.
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But the concept held true --
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Ali taj se koncept pokazao ispravnim -
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people working with people to rebuild me;
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ljudi koji su radili skupa da bi me iznova izgradili,
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people working with people to re-educate me.
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ljudi koji su radili skupa da bi me iznova educirali.
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I wouldn't be standing here today
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Ne bih sada stajala ovdje ispred vas
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if it wasn't for extreme radical collaboration.
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da nije bilo "radical collaboration".
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Thank you so much.
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Mnogo hvala.
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(Applause)
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(Pljesak)
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Ramona Pierson - Education innovatorRamona Pierson develops tools to revolutionize learning management and assessment systems -- her fourth career after aviation, neuropsychology and software development.
Why you should listen
Ramona Pierson first built careers in aviation, neuropsychology and software development. While studying and examining and learning the details of such diverse disciplines, she became interested in the act of learning itself. She volunteered in a San Francisco school while working full-time in Silicon Valley and, just like that, a fourth career was born.
Pierson completed a master’s degree in education in California, then headed north to take the reins of the education technology department for Seattle Public Schools. She combined her passions and expertise to create software that, in a nutshell, helps teachers teach better. In 2007, Ramona launched a private company with the same goal. SynapticMash Inc. was launched to revolutionize the learning management and assessment systems in education.
A self-described “data geek,” Pierson contemplated ways to push education and technology through a paradigm shift — to move from web 2.0 to web 3.0. Now the CEO of Declara, Ramona continues to study the act of learning and to explore ways to make our education system work better for students.
Ramona Pierson | Speaker | TED.com