Catherine Mohr: How I became part sea urchin
كاثرينا مور: كيف أصبحت جزءاً من قنفذ البحر
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Galapagos Islands,
and a big school of sharks.
of friends for about a week,
في الغوص مع مجموعة من الأصدقاء،
hammerhead sharks.
throwing you into the rocks
for that beautiful photograph.
all the way through your hand,
أنه عندما ينغرس شيء في يدك،
have a venom on them that,
القنافذ البحرية مليئة بالسم،
gives you horrible, painful inflammation.
بالتهاب مؤلم وفظيع.
in my mind at this point.
into, like, little scientists,
مثل العلماء الجدد،
adrenaline brain kicked in,
get my glove off with these in here."
"لا أستطيع نزع قفازي مع هذا هنا"
coming up in front of my face.
and starts freaking out.
have gotten into that wound already?"
من السم في الجرح مسبقًا؟"
and very calmly explains,
ويُفسّر بهدوء شديد،
down really hard over my hand,
dissipate a bit before we have to surface
تتبدد قليلا قبل أن نتجه إلى السطح
They don't feed when they're schooling.
لا يأكلون عندما يكونون في مجموعات.
the same books that I have.
نفس الكتب التي قرأتها.
with sea urchin spines,
from any medical help,
is, unfortunately, cook your hand.
هو أن تطبخ يدك.
as hot as you can stand,
absolutely insane.
for several weeks after that,
لعدد من الأسابيع بعد ذلك،
fine motor skills returned.
stiff and painful for weeks
بقي متصلبًا ومؤلمًا لأسابيع
a tip of the urchin spine
"You know, we should get this out.
"علينا إخراج هذه الشوكة.
for a few weeks out on a Monday.
بعد أسابيع في يوم الإثنين.
in a horseback riding accident.
facing six weeks on the couch,
نواجه ستة أسابيع على الأريكة،
if it hadn't been for my friends.
at my house every night for weeks.
في منزلي كل ليلة لأسابيع
hard to sustain over the long term,
من العسير أن يبقى لمدة طويلة،
to just one friend,
in the evenings --
during this period of convalescence.
pronounced well enough
and drove up into the mountains
واتجهنا نحو الجبال
Just the opposite, in fact.
على العكس، في الواقع،
to that marvelous introvert
would have approached me
than needing a walker
من حاجتك إلى مشاية طبية
a funny little epilogue.
I could reschedule that surgery,
يمكنني تحديد موعد العملية الجراحية
from all the bones in your body --
الموجود في جميع عظام جسدك...
that you happen to have lodged
ودماغ عالمة الفيزياء،
warm-blooded-mammal brain,
that that confers.
is one of the things
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Catherine Mohr - RoboticistCatherine Mohr loves what she does -- she's just not ever sure what it will be next.
Why you should listen
An engineer turned surgeon turned strategist, Catherine Mohr is always on the lookout for new technologies to help improve patient outcomes while trying to stay in her sweet spot -- the steep part of the learning curve.
As VP of Strategy for Intuitive Surgical in Silicon Valley, faculty at Singularity University and advisor to med-tech startups in the UK, the US and her native New Zealand, Mohr follows her self-admittedly geeky passions wherever they lead her, as she designs, makes, writes, tinkers, plays and travels all over the world.
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