Catherine Mohr: How I became part sea urchin
Catherine Mohr: Cómo me convertí en erizo de mar
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Galapagos Islands,
norte de las Islas Galápagos,
and a big school of sharks.
una gran escuela de tiburones.
of friends for about a week,
aproximadamente una semana,
hammerhead sharks.
tiburones martillo.
particularmente complicado.
throwing you into the rocks
arroja contra las rocas
for that beautiful photograph.
esa hermosa fotografía.
de erizo de mar negro
a llegar a mi mano.
all the way through your hand,
algo atravesando tu mano,
have a venom on them that,
tienen un veneno que,
gives you horrible, painful inflammation.
una inflamación horrible y dolorosa.
en mi mente en ese momento.
in my mind at this point.
into, like, little scientists,
como, en pequeños científicos,
adrenaline brain kicked in,
se activó la adrenalina cerebral,
get my glove off with these in here."
quitarme el guante con esos ahí".
coming up in front of my face.
que se acerca a mi cara.
and starts freaking out.
aparece y comienza a enloquecer.
have gotten into that wound already?"
meterse en esa herida?".
and very calmly explains,
y muy calmadamente explica,
están atenuadas.
down really hard over my hand,
muy fuerte sobre mi mano,
dissipate a bit before we have to surface
se disipe antes de salir a la superficie
They don't feed when they're schooling.
the same books that I have.
han leído los mismos libros que yo.
with sea urchin spines,
con espinas de erizos de mar,
from any medical help,
is, unfortunately, cook your hand.
desafortunadamente, hervirte la mano.
as hot as you can stand,
tan caliente como puedes,
absolutely insane.
for several weeks after that,
durante varias semanas después de eso,
fine motor skills returned.
motoras finas regresaron.
stiff and painful for weeks
rígido y doloroso durante semanas
partes habían mejorado.
a tip of the urchin spine
de la espina de los erizos
"You know, we should get this out.
"Sabes, deberíamos sacar esto".
no es una emergencia".
for a few weeks out on a Monday.
para unas pocas semanas después un lunes.
in a horseback riding accident.
un accidente a caballo.
facing six weeks on the couch,
frente a 6 semanas en el sofá,
if it hadn't been for my friends.
hubiera sido por mis amigos.
mi casa todas las noches durante semanas.
at my house every night for weeks.
hard to sustain over the long term,
algo difícil de sostener a largo plazo,
to just one friend,
in the evenings --
compañía en las noches...
during this period of convalescence.
durante este período de convalecencia.
pronounced well enough
lo suficientemente bien
and drove up into the mountains
y nos fuimos a las montañas
un deslizamiento de tierra.
Just the opposite, in fact.
Justo lo opuesto, de hecho.
to that marvelous introvert
ese maravilloso introvertido
would have approached me
se hubiera acercado a mí
than needing a walker
más sexy que necesitar un andador
sobre perforaciones
a funny little epilogue.
con un pequeño epílogo divertido.
I could reschedule that surgery,
podría reprogramar esa cirugía,
from all the bones in your body --
todos los huesos de tu cuerpo
that you happen to have lodged
de mar que te has alojado
cerebro de mamífero de sangre caliente,
warm-blooded-mammal brain,
that that confers.
que eso confiere.
es una de las cosas
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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