TEDMED 2012
Ed Gavagan: A story about knots and surgeons
Ed Gavagan: Priča o čvorovima i kirurzima
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Jednog se dana Ed Gavagan vozio podzemnom i gledao kako dvoje mladih studenata medicine vježba vezivanje čvorova. Preplavilo ga je snažno sjećanje - o šokantnom trenutku koji mu je zauvijek promijenio život. Nevjerojatna priča o zločinu, vještini i zahvalnosti.
Ed Gavagan - Designer, Storyteller
Ed Gavagan was walking down the street in downtown Manhattan when he was the victim of a gang assignment to kill a random stranger. He lives to tell the amazing story. Full bio
Ed Gavagan was walking down the street in downtown Manhattan when he was the victim of a gang assignment to kill a random stranger. He lives to tell the amazing story. Full bio
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00:19
You know, we wake up in the morning,
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Znate, probudite se ujutro,
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you get dressed, put on your shoes,
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odjenete se, obujete,
00:25
you head out into the world.
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krenete u svijet.
00:27
You plan on coming back, getting undressed,
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Planirate se vratiti, razodjenuti,
00:31
going to bed,
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otići u krevet,
00:34
waking up, doing it again,
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probuditi se, napraviti sve ponovno.
00:35
and that anticipation, that rhythm,
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I to nam iščekivanje, taj ritam,
00:38
helps give us a structure
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daje strukturu načinu
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to how we organize ourselves and our lives,
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na koji organiziramo sami sebe i svoje živote
00:44
and gives it a measure of predictability.
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te mu daje mjeru predvidljivosti.
00:48
Living in New York City, as I do,
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Živjeti u New Yorku, kao što ja živim,
00:50
it's almost as if, with so many people doing so many things
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s toliko ljudi koji rade toliko stvari
00:57
at the same time in such close quarters,
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u isto vrijeme u tako bliskim životnim prostorima,
01:01
it's almost like life is dealing you extra hands
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skoro je kao da vam život daje dodatne ruke
01:04
out of that deck.
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kako bi vam pomogao.
01:06
You're never, there's just, juxtapositions are possible
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Moguća su dodirivanja, preklapanja,
01:10
that just aren't, you don't think they're going to happen.
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koja jednostavno nisu, ne mislite da će se dogoditi.
01:15
And you never think you're going to be the guy
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Nikad ne mislite da ćete biti onaj
01:18
who's walking down the street
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koji hoda ulicom
01:19
and, because you choose to go down one side or the other,
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i zato što odabere ići jednom stranom ili drugom,
01:23
the rest of your life is changed forever.
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ostatak života mu se zauvijek promijeni.
01:26
And one night, I'm riding the uptown local train.
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Jedne noći vozio sam se lokalnim vlakom.
01:31
I get on. I tend to be a little bit vigilant
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Ukrcao sam se. Obično sam malo oprezniji
01:35
when I get on the subway.
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kad uđem u podzemnu željeznicu.
01:37
I'm not one of the people zoning out with headphones
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Nisam jedan od ljudi koji se isključe sa slušalicama
01:40
or a book.
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ili knjigom.
01:42
And I get on the car, and I look, and I
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Ušao sam u vagon
01:44
notice this couple,
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i ugledao jedan par,
01:47
college-aged, student-looking kids,
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fakultetske dobi, klinci studentskog izgleda,
01:50
a guy and a girl, and they're sitting next to each other,
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momka i djevojku koji su sjedili jedno kraj drugog,
01:52
and she's got her leg draped over his knee,
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a njena je noga bila prebačena
preko njegovog koljena.
preko njegovog koljena.
01:55
and they're doing -- they have this little contraption,
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Imali su tu spravicu
01:59
and they're tying these knots,
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i vezivali čvorove
02:01
and they're doing it with one hand,
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i radili su to jednom rukom,
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they're doing it left-handed and right-handed very quickly,
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i lijevom i desnom rukom vrlo brzo,
02:07
and then she'll hand the thing to him and he'll do it.
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a zatim je ona pružila spravu njemu
i onda je on to radio.
i onda je on to radio.
02:09
I've never seen anything like this.
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Nikad nisam vidio nešto slično tome.
02:10
It's almost like they're practicing magic tricks.
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Skoro kao da vježbaju mađioničarske trikove.
02:13
And at the next stop, a guy gets on the car,
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Na idućoj stanici u vagon je ušao jedan tip,
02:18
and he has this sort of visiting professor look to him.
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a nekako je izgledao poput gostujućeg profesora.
02:22
He's got the overstuffed leather satchel
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Imao je pretrpanu kožnu torbu,
02:24
and the rectangular file case and a laptop bag
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pravokutan spremnik za spise, torbu za laptop
02:27
and the tweed jacket with the leather patches,
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i jaknu od tvida s kožnim zakrpama,
02:30
and — (Laughter) —
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i -- (Smijeh) --
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he looks at them, and then
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pogledao ih je i onda je
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in a blink of an eye, he kneels down in front of them,
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u tren oka kleknuo pred njih
02:37
and he starts to say,
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i počeo govoriti:
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"You know, listen, here's how you can do it. Look,
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"Slušajte, možete to ovako raditi. Gledajte,
02:41
if you do this -- " and he takes the laces out of their hand,
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ako napravite ovo -- " i uzeo im je vezice iz ruku,
02:44
and instantly, he starts tying these knots,
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i odmah počeo vezati čvorove,
02:47
and even better than they were doing it, remarkably.
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još spretnije nego što su oni to radili, začuđujuće.
02:52
And it turns out they are medical students
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Ispalo je da su oni studenti medicine
02:55
on their way to a lecture about the latest
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na putu na predavanje o najnovijim
02:57
suturing techniques, and he's the guy giving the lecture.
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tehnikama šivanja, a on je tip koji drži predavanje.
03:00
(Laughter)
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(Smijeh)
03:02
So he starts to tell them, and he's like,
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Počeo im je pričati:
03:04
"No, this is very important here. You know,
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"Ne, ovo je jako bitno. Znate,
03:07
when you're needing these knots,
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kad vam zatrebaju ovi čvorovi,
03:09
it's going to be, you know, everything's
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bit će, znate,
03:11
going to be happening at the same time, it's going to be --
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sve će se događati u isto vrijeme --
03:14
you're going to have all this information coming at you,
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imat ćete sve te informacije koje će dolaziti,
03:18
there's going to be organs getting in the way,
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organi će vam biti na putu,
03:19
it's going to be slippery,
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bit će klizavo,
03:21
and
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i
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it's just very important that you be able to do these
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jako je bitno da ih možete napraviti
03:26
beyond second nature, each hand, left hand, right hand,
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veoma vješto, obje ruke, lijeva ruka, desna ruka,
03:29
you have to be able to do them without seeing your fingers."
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morate ih moći napraviti bez da vidite svoje prste."
03:32
And at that moment, when I heard that,
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U tom trenutku, kad sam to čuo,
03:34
I just got catapulted out of the subway car into a night
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odbačen sam iz vagona u noć
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when I had been getting a ride in an ambulance
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kad sam bio u vozilu hitne,
03:44
from the sidewalk where I had been stabbed
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nakon što sam izboden na pločniku,
03:49
to the trauma room of St. Vincent's Hospital in Manhattan,
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na putu za traumatologiju
bolnice Sv. Vincenta na Manhattanu.
bolnice Sv. Vincenta na Manhattanu.
03:53
and what had happened was
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Što se dogodilo?
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a gang had come in from Brooklyn.
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Jedna je banda došla iz Brooklyna.
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As part of an initiation for three of their members,
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Kao dio inicijacije, trojica njihovih članova
04:01
they had to kill somebody,
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morala su ubiti nekog,
04:03
and I happened to be the guy walking down Bleecker Street
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a ja sam bio tip koji je hodao ulicom Bleecker
04:06
that night,
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te noći
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and they jumped on me without a word.
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i zaskočili su me bez riječi.
04:12
One of the very lucky things,
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Imao sam sreće jer,
04:14
when I was at Notre Dame, I was on the boxing team,
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kad sam bio na Notre Dameu,
bio sam u boksačkom timu
bio sam u boksačkom timu
04:17
so I put my hands up right away, instinctively.
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pa sam istog trena podigao ruke, instinktivno.
04:22
The guy on the right had a knife with a 10-inch blade,
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Tip zdesna imao je nož s oštricom dugom 25 cm,
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and he went in under my elbow,
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zario ga je ispod mog lakta
04:29
and it went up and cut my inferior vena cava.
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i porezao mi je donju šuplju venu.
04:33
If you know anything about anatomy,
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Ako znate išta o anatomiji,
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that's not a good thing to get cut,
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nije dobro to prerezati
04:37
and everything, of course, on the way up,
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i, naravno, sve iznad toga,
04:40
and then — I still had my hands up —
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i onda -- i dalje sam imao ruke gore --
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he pulled it out and went for my neck,
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izvukao ga je i krenuo prema mom vratu,
04:44
and sunk it in up to the hilt in my neck,
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zabio ga skroz do drška u moj vrat.
04:48
and I got one straight right punch
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Uspio sam zadati jedan izravan desni udarac
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and knocked the middle guy out.
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i srušio srednjeg tipa.
04:53
The other guy was still working on me,
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Drugi je tip i dalje radio na meni,
04:55
collapsing my other lung,
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urušavajući moje drugo plućno krilo,
04:57
and I managed to, by hitting that guy, to get a minute.
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i uspio sam, udarivši tog tipa, dobiti minutu vremena.
05:03
I ran down the street and collapsed,
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Potrčao sam niz ulicu i srušio se,
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and the ambulance guys intubated me on the sidewalk
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a ljudi iz hitne intubirali su me na pločniku
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and let the trauma room know
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i javili traumatologiji
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they had an incoming.
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da imaju dolazećeg pacijenta.
05:12
And one of the
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Jedna od
05:15
side effects of having major massive blood loss
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nuspojava kad izgubite mnogo krvi
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is you get tunnel vision,
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jest tunelski vid,
05:21
so I remember being on the stretcher
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tako da se sjećam da sam bio na nosilima
05:23
and having a little nickel-sized cone of vision,
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i da sam vidio kao da gledam kroz špijunku
05:27
and I was moving my head around
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i pomicao sam glavom okolo.
05:28
and we got to St. Vincent's,
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Stigli smo do Sv. Vincenta
05:30
and we're racing down this hallway,
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i jurili hodnikom,
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and I see the lights going,
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vidio sam kako se svjetla pale
05:33
and it's a peculiar effect of memories like that.
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i to je zanimljiv učinak takvih sjećanja.
05:40
They don't really go to the usual place that memories go.
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Ne idu zapravo na mjesto gdje sjećanja inače idu.
05:44
They kind of have this vault where they're stored in high-def,
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Kao da postoji nekakav trezor
gdje su spremljena u visokoj rezoluciji,
gdje su spremljena u visokoj rezoluciji,
05:50
and George Lucas did all the sound effects. (Laughter)
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a George Lucas je radio sve zvučne efekte.
(Smijeh)
(Smijeh)
05:54
So sometimes, remembering them, it's like,
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Ponekad kad ih se sjećamo,
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it's not like any other kind of memories.
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ona nekako nisu poput drugih vrsta sjećanja.
06:02
And I get into the trauma room,
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Ušao sam u šok sobu
06:05
and they're waiting for me, and the lights are there,
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i čekali su me, i svjetla su bila tamo,
06:08
and I'd been able to breathe a little more now,
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mogao sam tad disati malo više
06:13
because the blood has left, had been filling up my lungs
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jer je otekla krv koja je ispunjavala moja pluća
06:17
and I was having a very hard time breathing,
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i imao sam velike poteškoće s disanjem,
06:19
but now it's kind of gone into the stretcher.
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ali tad je nekako prešla u nosila.
06:22
And I said, "Is there anything I can do to help?"
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Rekao sam: "Mogu li nešto učiniti da pomognem?"
06:25
and — (Laughter) —
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i -- (Smijeh) --
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the nurse kind of had a hysterical laugh, and
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sestra se nekako počela histerično smijati,
06:30
I'm turning my head trying to see everybody,
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okretao sam glavu pokušavajući sve vidjeti,
06:32
and I had this weird memory of being in college
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i imao sam čudno sjećanje kako sam bio na fakultetu
06:36
and raising,
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i prikupljao,
06:39
raising money for the flood victims of Bangladesh,
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prikupljao sam novac za žrtve poplave u Bangladešu.
06:43
and then I look over and my anesthesiologist
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Tada sam vidio kako mi anesteziolog
06:46
is clamping the mask on me, and I think,
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stavlja masku i pomislio:
06:47
"He looks Bangladeshi," — (Laughter) —
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"Izgleda nekako bangladeški." -- (Smijeh) --
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and I just have those two facts, and I just think,
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a imao sam samo te dvije činjenice i mislim:
06:53
"This could work somehow." (Laughter)
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"Ovo bi moglo ići." (Smijeh)
06:56
And then I go out, and
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I onda sam se onesvijestio,
06:59
they work on me for the rest of the night,
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a oni su radili na meni ostatak noći,
07:00
and I needed about 40 units of blood to keep me there
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i trebao sam oko 40 jedinica krvi
da me održe na životu
da me održe na životu
07:05
while they did their work,
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dok su radili svoj posao.
07:09
and the surgeon took out about a third of my intestines,
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Kirurg je izvadio oko trećinu mojih crijeva,
07:13
my cecum, organs I didn't know that I had,
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slijepo crijevo, organe za koje
nisam ni znao da ih imam,
nisam ni znao da ih imam,
07:16
and he later told me one of the last things he did
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i kasnije je rekao da mi je za kraj
07:19
while he was in there was to remove my appendix for me,
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dok je bio unutra izvadio crvuljak,
07:22
which I thought was great, you know,
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što sam smatrao odličnim, znate,
07:24
just a little tidy thing there at the end. (Laughter)
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samo mala stvarčica tamo na kraju.
(Smijeh)
(Smijeh)
07:27
And I came to in the morning.
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Osvijestio sam se ujutro.
07:32
Out of anesthetic, he had let them know
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Bez anestetika, dao mi je do znanja
07:33
that he wanted to be there, and he had given me
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da je htio biti tamo i dao mi je
07:37
about a two percent chance of living.
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oko 2% šanse za preživljavanje.
07:40
So he was there when I woke up,
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Bio je tamo kad sam se probudio,
07:42
and it was, waking up was like
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a buđenje je bilo poput
07:44
breaking through the ice into a frozen lake of pain.
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probijanja leda u zaleđeno jezero boli.
07:50
It was that enveloping,
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Bilo je sveobuhvatno,
07:52
and there was only one spot that didn't hurt
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i samo me jedan dio nije bolio
07:57
worse than anything I'd ever felt,
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gore od ičega što sam ikad osjetio,
07:58
and it was my instep,
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a to je bio moj taban.
08:00
and he was holding the arch of my foot
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Držao je luk mog stopala
08:03
and rubbing the instep with his thumb.
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i trljao taban svojim palcem.
08:07
And I looked up, and he's like,
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Pogledao sam prema gore, a on je rekao:
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"Good to see you,"
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"Drago mi je vidjeti te",
08:11
and I was trying to remember what had happened
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a ja sam se pokušavao sjetiti što se dogodilo
08:15
and trying to get my head around everything,
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i pokušavao shvatiti sve.
08:17
and the pain was just overwhelming, and he said,
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Bol je bila jednostavno prejaka, a on je rekao:
08:21
"You know, we didn't cut your hair. I thought
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"Znaš, nismo te šišali. Mislio sam
08:24
you might have gotten strength from your hair like Samson,
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da možda dobivaš snagu
od svoje kose poput Samsona,
od svoje kose poput Samsona,
08:29
and you're going to need all the strength you can get."
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a trebat će ti sva snaga koju možeš dobiti."
08:31
And in those days, my hair was down to my waist,
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Tada sam imao kosu do struka,
08:35
I drove a motorcycle, I was unmarried,
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vozio sam motor, nisam bio neoženjen,
08:38
I owned a bar, so those were different times. (Laughter)
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bio sam vlasnik kafića,
bila su to drugačija vremena.
(Smijeh)
bila su to drugačija vremena.
(Smijeh)
08:43
But
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Ali
08:46
I had three days of life support,
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tri sam dana bio na aparatima
08:49
and everybody was expecting,
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i svi su očekivali,
08:52
due to just the massive amount of what they had had to do
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zbog same činjenice koliko toga su morali napraviti,
08:57
that I wasn't going to make it,
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da jednostavno neću preživjeti
08:59
so it was three days of
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pa su ta tri dana
09:01
everybody was either waiting for me to die or poop,
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svi čekali ili da umrem ili da kakam,
09:04
and — (Laughter) —
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i -- (Smijeh) --
09:05
when I finally pooped, then that somehow,
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kad sam se napokon pokakao, onda je to kao,
09:08
surgically speaking, that's like you crossed some good line,
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kirurški gledano, da ste prešli neku dobru granicu,
09:12
and, um — (Laughter) —
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i -- (Smijeh) --
09:13
on that day, the surgeon came in
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tog dana, kirurg je došao
09:16
and whipped the sheet off of me.
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i skinuo posteljinu s mene.
09:19
He had three or four friends with him,
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Imao je tri, četiri prijatelja sa sobom,
09:21
and he does that, and they all look,
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to je napravio i svi su pogledali
09:23
and there was no infection,
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i nije bilo infekcije.
09:25
and they bend over me and they're poking and prodding,
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Svi se sagnuli nada mnom i bockali i pipali,
09:28
and they're like, "There's no hematomas, blah blah,
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svi su govorili kako nema hematoma, bla bla,
09:30
look at the color," and they're talking amongst themselves
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da pogledaju boju, i pričali su među sobom
09:33
and I'm, like, this restored automobile
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kao da sam neki obnovljeni automobil
09:36
that he's just going, "Yeah, I did that." (Laughter)
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za koji kaže: "Da, to sam ja napravio." (Smijeh)
09:39
And it was just,
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I bilo je
09:42
it was amazing, because these guys are high-fiving him
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jednostavno čudesno, zato što mu ti tipovi daju pet
09:45
over how good I turned out, you know? (Laughter)
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zbog toga što sam odlično ispao, znate? (Smijeh)
09:47
And it's my zipper, and I've still got the staples in
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To je moj zatvarač i još uvijek imam spajalice unutra
09:51
and everything.
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i sve.
09:52
And
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I
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later on, when I got out
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kasnije, kad sam se probudio
09:57
and the flashbacks and the
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i kad su mi sjećanja i
10:02
nightmares were giving me a hard time,
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noćne more zadavale probleme,
10:07
I went back to him
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otišao sam kod njega
10:09
and I was sort of asking him,
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i upitao ga
10:12
you know, what am I gonna do?
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što da radim.
10:15
And I think, kind of, as a surgeon, he basically said,
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I mislim da je, kao kirurg, jednostavno rekao:
10:19
"Kid, I saved your life.
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"Dečko, spasio sam ti život.
10:21
Like, now you can do whatever you want, like,
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Sad možeš što hoćeš,
10:24
you gotta get on with that.
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moraš nastaviti s tim.
10:25
It's like I gave you a new car
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To je kao da sam ti dao novi auto,
10:27
and you're complaining about not finding parking.
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a žališ se zato što ne možeš naći parking.
10:29
Like, just, go out, and, you know, do your best.
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Samo izađi, i, znaš, daj sve od sebe.
10:33
But you're alive. That's what it's about."
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Ali živ si. To je ono o čemu se radi."
10:38
And then I hear, "Bing-bong," and the subway doors
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I onda čujem: "Bing-bong", i to su vrata podzemne
10:44
are closing, and my stop is next, and I look at these kids,
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koja se zatvaraju, a silazim na idućoj stanici,
i pogledam te klince,
i pogledam te klince,
10:50
and I go, I think to myself,
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i pomislim u sebi
10:52
"I'm going to lift my shirt up
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da bih mogao podići svoju majicu
10:53
and show them," — (Laughter) —
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i pokazati im -- (Smijeh) --
10:55
and then I think, "No, this is the New York City subway,
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a onda pomislim: "Ne, ovo je podzemna u New Yorku,
10:57
that's going to lead to other things." (Laughter)
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to će dovesti do drugih stvari." (Smijeh)
11:01
And so I just think, they got their lecture to go to.
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I tako samo mislim kako imaju
svoje predavanje na koje moraju ići.
svoje predavanje na koje moraju ići.
11:05
I step off, I'm standing on the platform,
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Siđem, stojim na platformi,
11:09
and I feel my index finger
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i osjećam svoj kažiprst
11:12
in
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u
11:14
the first scar that I ever got,
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prvom ožiljku koji sam ikad dobio,
11:17
from my umbilical cord,
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od svoje pupčane vrpce,
11:21
and then around that, is traced
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i onda se oko tog ocrtava
11:24
the last scar that I got
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zadnji ožiljak koji sam dobio
11:26
from my surgeon,
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od svog kirurga.
11:29
and I think that, that chance encounter
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Mislim da me taj slučajni susret
11:34
with those kids on the street with their knives
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s klincima na ulici i njihovim noževima
11:38
led me
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doveo
11:40
to my surgical team,
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do mog kirurškog tima,
11:43
and their training
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a njihova je obuka
11:48
and their skill
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i njihova vještina
11:50
and, always, a little bit of luck
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i, uvijek, trunka sreće
11:53
pushed back against chaos.
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potukla kaos.
11:56
Thank you. (Applause)
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Hvala. (Pljesak)
12:00
(Applause)
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(Pljesak)
12:09
Thank you. Very lucky to be here. Thank you. (Applause)
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Hvala. Sretan sam što sam ovdje. Hvala.
(Pljesak)
(Pljesak)
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Ed Gavagan - Designer, StorytellerEd Gavagan was walking down the street in downtown Manhattan when he was the victim of a gang assignment to kill a random stranger. He lives to tell the amazing story.
Why you should listen
Ed Gavagan is the owner of PraxisNYC, a design firm specializing in boutique residences and aimed at designing for sustainability, habitability, durability and beauty. In 2007 Gavagan told the story “Drowning on Sullivan Street” at the Moth, the series devoted to stories told live without notes, about his near-death experience on the streets of New York as the victim of a gang initiation rite. His stories have been heard on NPR and the Moth podcast, and he has appeared onstage with the Moth in events across the U.S. Gavagan lives in New York City with his wife and daughter.
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