TEDxDU 2011
Ramona Pierson: An unexpected place of healing
Ramona Pierson: Et uventet helingssted
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Da Ramona Pierson var 22, blev hun ramt af en spritbilist og hun tilbragte 18 måneder i koma. Ved TEDxDU fortæller hun den bemærkelsesværdige historie om hendes bedring -- ved at trække på de kollektive evner og visdom i et plejehjem.
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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Jeg vil dele noget med jer som jeg faktisk
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I haven't talked about probably in more than 10 years.
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ikke har talt med nogen om i over 10 år.
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So bear with me
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Så bær over med mig
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as I take you through this journey.
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mens jeg tager jer med på denne rejse.
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When I was 22 years old,
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Da jeg var 22 år,
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I came home from work, put a leash on my dog
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kom jeg hjem fra arbejde, satte min hund i snor
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and went for my usual run.
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og tog afsted på min sædvanlige løbetur.
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I had no idea that at that moment
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Jeg anede på det tidspunkt ikke,
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my life was going to change forever.
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at mit liv ville blive forandret for altid.
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While I was preparing my dog for the run,
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Da jeg gjorde min hund klar til løbeturen,
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a man was finishing drinking at a bar,
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blev en mand færdig med at drikke på en bar,
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picked up his car keys, got into a car
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samlede sine bilnøgler op, satte sig ind i sin bil
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and headed south,
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og kørte sydpå,
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or wherever he was.
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eller hvor end han nu var.
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I was running across the street,
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Jeg løb over gaden,
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and the only thing that I actually remember
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og det eneste jeg faktisk kan huske
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is feeling like a grenade went off in my head.
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er denne følelse af at en granat eksploderede i mit hoved.
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And I remember putting my hands on the ground
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Og jeg kan huske jeg satte mine hænder på jorden
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and feeling my life's blood
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og følte mit livsblod
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emptying out of my neck
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tømme sig ud af min nakke
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and my mouth.
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og min mund.
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What had happened
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Det der var sket
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is he ran a red light and hit me and my dog.
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var, at han kørte over for rødt og ramte mig og min hund.
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She ended up underneath the car.
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Hun endte under bilen.
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I flew out in front of the car,
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Jeg fløj ud foran bilen,
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and then he ran over my legs.
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og så kørte han mine ben over.
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My left leg got caught up in the wheel well --
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Mit venstre ben blev fanget i hjulbrønden --
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spun it around.
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drejede den rundt.
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The bumper of the car hit my throat,
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Bilens kofanger ramte mit hals,
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slicing it open.
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skar den op.
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I ended up with blunt chest trauma.
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Jeg fik kvæstelser i brystet.
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Your aorta comes up behind your heart.
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Ens aorta kommer op bag ved ens hjerte.
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It's your major artery, and it was severed,
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Det er ens store pulsåre, og den blev skåret over,
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so my blood was gurgling out of my mouth.
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så mit blod gurglede ud af min mund.
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It foamed,
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Det skummede,
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and horrible things were happening to me.
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og der skete forfærdelige ting med mig.
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I had no idea what was going on,
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Jeg havde ingen anelse om hvad der skete,
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but strangers intervened,
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men fremmede greb ind,
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kept my heart moving, beating.
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sørgede for at mit hjerte bevægede sig, at det slog.
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I say moving because it was quivering
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Jeg siger bevægede, fordi det skælvede
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and they were trying to put a beat back into it.
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og de prøvede at sætte det i gang igen.
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Somebody was smart and put a Bic pen in my neck
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Nogen var så smarte at de satte en Bic pen i min hals
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to open up my airway so that I could get some air in there.
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for at åbne mine luftveje, så jeg kunne få noget luft ned.
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And my lung collapsed,
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Og min lunge kollapsede,
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so somebody cut me open and put a pin in there as well
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så nogen skar mig op og satte også en nål derind,
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to stop that catastrophic event from happening.
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for at stoppe den katastrofale begivenhed fra at finde sted.
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Somehow I ended up at the hospital.
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På en eller anden måde endte jeg på sygehuset.
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I was wrapped in ice
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Jeg blev pakket ind i is
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and then eventually put into a drug-induced coma.
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og på et tidspunkt lagt i et kunstigt koma.
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18 months later I woke up.
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18 måneder senere vågnede jeg.
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I was blind, I couldn't speak,
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Jeg var blind, jeg kunne ikke tale,
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and I couldn't walk.
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og jeg kunne ikke gå.
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I was 64 lbs.
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Jeg vejede 29 kilo.
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The hospital really has no idea
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Sygehuset havde egentlig ingen anelse om
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what to do with people like that.
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hvad man gjorde med den slags mennesker.
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And in fact, they started to call me a Gomer.
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Og faktisk begyndte de at kalde mig Gomer.
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That's another story we won't even get into.
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Det er en anden historie, som jeg ikke engang vil begynde på.
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I had so many surgeries to put my neck back together,
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Jeg fik så mange operationer for at sætte min nakke sammen,
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to repair my heart a few times.
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for at reparere mit hjerte et par gange.
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Some things worked, some things didn't.
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Nogle ting virkede, nogle ting gjorde ikke.
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I had lots of titanium put in me,
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Der blev sat en masse titanium i mig,
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cadaver bones
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lig knogler
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to try to get my feet moving the right way.
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for at prøve at få mine fødder til at bevæge sig rigtigt.
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And I ended up with a plastic nose, porcelain teeth
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Og jeg endte med at få en plastik næse og porcelæns tænder,
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and all kinds of other things.
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og en masse andre ting.
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But eventually I started to look human again.
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Men til sidst begyndte jeg at se menneskelig ud igen.
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But it's hard sometimes to talk about these things,
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Men det er nogle gange svært at tale om disse ting,
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so bear with me.
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så bær over med mig.
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I had more than 50 surgeries.
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Jeg fik mere end 50 operationer.
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But who's counting?
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Men hvem tæller?
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So eventually, the hospital decided
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Så i sidste ende, besluttede sygehuset
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it was time for me to go.
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at det var tid til at jeg smuttede.
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They needed to open up space
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De havde brug for pladsen
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for somebody else that they thought could come back
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til en anden, som de troede kunne komme tilbage
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from whatever they were going through.
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fra hvad de end oplevede.
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Everybody lost faith in me being able to recover.
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Alle mistede troen på at jeg kunne komme mig.
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So they basically put a map up on the wall, threw a dart,
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Så de satte dybest set et kort på væggen, kastede en dart,
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and it landed at a senior home here in Colorado.
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og den landede på et plejehjem her i Colorado.
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And I know all of you are scratching your head:
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Og jeg ved I alle klør jer i hovedet:
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"A senior citizens' home? What in the world are you going to do there?"
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"Et plejehjem? Hvad i alverden vil du lave der?"
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But if you think about
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Men hvis man tænker over det,
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all of the skills and talent that are in this room right now,
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alle de evner og talenter der er i dette lokale lige nu,
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that's what a senior home has.
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det er det et plejehjem har.
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So there were all these skills and talents
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Så der var alle disse evner og talenter
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that these seniors had.
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som disse pensionister havde.
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The one advantage that they had over most of you
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Den eneste fordel de havde i forhold til de fleste af jer
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is wisdom,
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er visdom,
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because they had a long life.
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fordi de havde haft et langt liv.
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And I needed that wisdom at that moment in my life.
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Og jeg havde brug for den visdom, på det tidspunkt i mit liv.
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But imagine what it was like for them
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Men forestil jer hvordan det var for dem,
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when I showed up at their doorstep?
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da jeg stod på deres dørtrin?
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At that point, I had gained four pounds,
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På det tidspunkt, havde jeg taget to kilo på,
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so I was 68 lbs.
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jeg jeg vejede 31 kilo.
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I was bald.
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Jeg var skaldet.
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I was wearing hospital scrubs.
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Jeg havde en kittel fra sygehuset på.
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And somebody donated tennis shoes for me.
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Og nogen havde doneret nogle sportssko til mig.
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And I had a white cane in one hand
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Og jeg havde en hvid stok i en hånd
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and a suitcase full of medical records in another hand.
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og en kuffert fyldt med journaler i den anden hånd.
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And so the senior citizens realized
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Så pensionisterne blev klar over
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that they needed to have an emergency meeting.
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at de skulle have et nødmøde.
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(Laughter)
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(Latter)
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So they pulled back and they were looking at each other,
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Så de trak sig tilbage og kiggede på hinanden,
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and they were going, "Okay, what skills do we have in this room?
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og de sagde, "Okay, hvilke evner har vi i dette lokale?
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This kid needs a lot of work."
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Denne unge har brug for en masse arbejde."
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So they eventually started
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Så i sidste ende begyndte de at
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matching their talents and skills
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matche deres talenter og evner
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to all of my needs.
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med alle mine behov.
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But one of the first things they needed to do
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Men en af de første ting de havde brug for at gøre,
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was assess what I needed right away.
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var at vurdere hvad jeg havde brug for med det samme.
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I needed to figure out
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Jeg skulle regne ud
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how to eat like a normal human being,
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hvordan man spiser som et normalt menneske,
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since I'd been eating through a tube in my chest
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eftersom jeg havde spist gennem et rør i min brystkasse,
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and through my veins.
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og gennem mine årer.
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So I had to go through trying to eat again.
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Så jeg skulle begynde med at prøve at spise igen.
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And they went through that process.
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Og de gik igennem den process.
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And then they had to figure out:
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Og så skulle de vurdere:
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"Well she needs furniture.
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"Jamen hun har brug for møbler.
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She is sleeping in the corner of this apartment."
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Hun sover i hjørnet af denne lejlighed."
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So they went to their storage lockers
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Så de kiggede i deres lagerrum
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and all gathered their extra furniture --
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og samlede alle de ekstra møbler --
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gave me pots and pans, blankets,
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gav mig potter og pander, tæpper,
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everything.
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alt.
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And then the next thing that I needed
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Og så den næste ting jeg havde brug for
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was a makeover.
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var en makeover.
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So out went the green scrubs
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Så de grønne kitler røg ud
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and in came the polyester and floral prints.
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og ind kom polyester og blomstermønstrene.
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(Laughter)
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(Latter)
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We're not going to talk about the hairstyles that they tried to force on me
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Vi kommer ikke til at tale om de frisurer som de prøvede at påtvinge mig
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once my hair grew back.
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da jeg fik mit hår tilbage.
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But I did say no to the blue hair.
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Men jeg sagde nej til det blå hår.
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(Laughter)
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(Latter)
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So eventually what went on
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Så det der skete i sidste ende
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is they decided that, well I need to learn to speak.
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var at de besluttede at, jamen jeg skulle lære at snakke.
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So you can't be an independent person
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Så man kan ikke være en uafhængig person,
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if you're not able to speak and can't see.
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hvis man ikke kan tale eller se.
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So they figured not being able to see is one thing,
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Så de vurderede at ikke være i stand til at se er en ting,
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but they need to get me to talk.
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men at de skulle få mig til at tale.
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So while Sally, the office manager,
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Så mens Sally, kontorchefen,
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was teaching me to speak in the day --
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lærte mig at tale om dagen --
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it's hard, because when you're a kid,
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det er svært, fordi når man er barn,
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you take things for granted.
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tager man tingene for givet.
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You learn things unconsciously.
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Man lærer ubevidst tingene.
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But for me, I was an adult and it was embarrassing,
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Men for mig, jeg var en voksen og det var pinligt,
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and I had to learn how to coordinate
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og jeg skulle lære hvordan jeg skulle koordinere
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my new throat with my tongue
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min nye hals med min tunge
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and my new teeth and my lips,
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og mine nye tænder og mine læber,
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and capture the air and get the word out.
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og fange luften og få ordet ud.
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So I acted like a two-year-old
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Så jeg opførte mig som en to-årig
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and refused to work.
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og nægtede at arbejde.
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But the men had a better idea.
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Men mændene havde en bedre ide.
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They were going to make it fun for me.
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De ville gøre det sjovt for mig.
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So they were teaching me cuss word Scrabble at night,
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Så de lærte mig bandeords Scrabble om aftenen,
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(Laughter)
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(Latter)
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and then, secretly,
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og så, hemmeligt,
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how to swear like a sailor.
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hvordan man bander som en sømand.
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So I'm going to just leave it to your imagination
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Så jeg vil overlade det til jeres fantasi,
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as to what my first words were
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hvad der var mine første ord
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when Sally finally got my confidence built.
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da Sally endelig fik opbygget min selvtillid.
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(Laughter)
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(Latter)
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So I moved on from there.
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Så jeg kom videre derfra.
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And a former teacher who happened to have Alzheimer's
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En tidligere lærer der tilfældigvis havde Alzheimers
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took on the task of teaching me to write.
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pådrog opgaven at lære mig at skrive.
07:28
The redundancy was actually good for me.
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Overflødigheden var faktisk ret god for mig.
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So we'll just keep moving on.
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Så vi forsætter bare.
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(Laughter)
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(Latter)
07:38
One of the pivotal times for me
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Et af de afgørende tidspunkter for mig
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was actually learning to cross a street again
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var faktisk at lære at gå over gaden igen
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as a blind person.
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som en blind person.
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So close your eyes.
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Så luk jeres øjne.
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Now imagine you have to cross a street.
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Forestil jer nu at I skulle gå over gaden.
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You don't know how far that street is
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I ved ikke hvor bred den gade er
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and you don't know if you're going straight
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og I ved ikke om man går lige over,
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and you hear cars whizzing back and forth,
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og man hører biler der suser frem og tilbage
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and you had a horrible accident
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og man har haft et forfærdeligt uheld
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that landed you in this situation.
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der fik en i denne situation.
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So there were two obstacles I had to get through.
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Så der var to forhindringer som jeg skulle gennem.
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One was post-traumatic stress disorder.
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En var posttraumatisk stresstilstand.
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And every time I approached the corner or the curb
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Og hver gang jeg nærmede mig gadehjørnet eller kantstenen
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I would panic.
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gik jeg i panik.
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And the second one
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Og den anden
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was actually trying to figure out how to cross that street.
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var faktisk at prøve at finde ud af hvordan jeg skulle gå over gaden.
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So one of the seniors just came up to me,
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Så en af pensionisterne kom bare op til mig,
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and she pushed me up to the corner and she said,
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og hun skubbede mig op til gadehjørnet og hun sagde,
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"When you think it's time to go, just stick the cane out there.
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"Når du tror det er tid til at gå, så bare stik stokken derud.
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If it's hit, don't cross the street."
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Hvis den bliver ramt, så gå ikke over gaden."
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(Laughter)
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(Latter)
08:39
Made perfect sense.
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Gav god mening.
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But by the third cane
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Men da den tredje stok
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that went whizzing across the road,
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fløj hen over gaden,
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they realized that they needed to put the resources together,
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var de klar over at de skulle samle ressourcerne
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and they raised funds
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og de samlede pengene
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so that I could go to the Braille Institute
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til at jeg kunne gå på Braille Institute
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and actually gain the skills
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og jeg opnåede faktisk evnerne
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to be a blind person,
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til at være en blind person,
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and also to go get a guide dog
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og også til at få en førerhund
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who transformed my life.
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der forandrede mit liv.
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And I was able to return to college
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Og jeg var i stand til at komme tilbage til universitetet
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because of the senior citizens who invested in me,
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på grund af pensionisterne der investerede i mig,
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and also the guide dog and skill set I had gained.
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og også førerhunden og de evner jeg opnåede.
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10 years later I gained my sight back.
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10 år senere fik jeg synet tilbage.
09:14
Not magically.
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Ikke på magisk vis.
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I opted in for three surgeries,
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Jeg valgte at få tre operationer,
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and one of them was experimental.
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og en af dem var på forsøgsstadiet.
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It was actually robotic surgery.
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Det var faktisk robot kirurgi.
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They removed a hematoma from behind my eye.
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De fjernede en blod ansamling bag mit øje.
09:27
The biggest change for me
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Den største forandring for mig,
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was that the world moved forward,
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var at verden havde bevæget sig fremad,
09:32
that there were innovations
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at der var innovationer
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and all kinds of new things --
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og alle mulige nye ting --
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cellphones, laptops,
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mobiltelefoner, bærbare,
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all these things that I had never seen before.
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alle disse ting jeg aldrig havde set før.
09:41
And as a blind person,
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Og som en blind person,
09:43
your visual memory fades
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blegner ens visuelle minder
09:45
and is replaced with how you feel about things
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og bliver erstattet af hvad man føler om tingene
09:48
and how things sound
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og hvordan tingene lyder
09:51
and how things smell.
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og hvordan tingene dufter.
09:54
So one day I was in my room
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Så en dag jeg var i mit værelse
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and I saw this thing sitting in my room
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og jeg så denne ting sidde i mit værelse
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and I thought it was a monster.
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og jeg troede det var et monster.
10:00
So I was walking around it.
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Så jeg gik rundt om det.
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And I go, "I'm just going to touch it."
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Og jeg tænkte, "Jeg rører bare ved det."
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And I touched it and I went,
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Og jeg rørte ved det og tænkte,
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"Oh my God, it's a laundry basket."
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"Åh gud, det er en vasketøjs kurv."
10:08
(Laughter)
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(Latter)
10:12
So everything is different
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Så alt er anderledes
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when you're a sighted person
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når man er en seende person
10:16
because you take that for granted.
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fordi man tager det for givet.
10:18
But when you're blind,
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Men når man er blind,
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you have the tactile memory for things.
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har man taktile minder om tingene.
10:23
The biggest change for me was looking down at my hands
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Den største forandring for mig var at se på mine hænder
10:26
and seeing that I'd lost 10 years of my life.
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og se at jeg havde mistet 10 år af mit liv.
10:30
I thought that time had stood still for some reason
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Og jeg troede på det tidspunkt, at tiden havde stået stille af en eller anden årsag
10:33
and moved on for family and friends.
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og var gået for min familie og venner.
10:35
But when I looked down,
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Men da jeg kiggede ned,
10:37
I realized that time marched on for me too
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og jeg blev klar over at tiden også gik for mig
10:39
and that I needed to get caught up,
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og at jeg havde brug for at blive indhentet,
10:41
so I got going on it.
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så jeg gik i gang med det.
10:43
We didn't have words like crowd-sourcing and radical collaboration
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Vi havde ikke ord som crowdsourcing og radikalt samarbejde
10:47
when I had my accident.
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da ulykken skete.
10:49
But the concept held true --
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Men konceptet virkede --
10:51
people working with people to rebuild me;
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mennesker der arbejder med mennesker for at genopbygge mig;
10:54
people working with people to re-educate me.
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mennesker der arbejder med mennesker for at omskole mig.
10:56
I wouldn't be standing here today
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Jeg ville ikke stå her i dag
10:58
if it wasn't for extreme radical collaboration.
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hvis det ikke var for ekstrem radikalt samarbejde.
11:02
Thank you so much.
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Mange tak.
11:04
(Applause)
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(Bifald)
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