TEDxDU 2011
Ramona Pierson: An unexpected place of healing
Ramona Pierson: Nečakané miesto uzdravenia
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Keď mala Ramona Pierson 22 rokov, bola zrazená opitým vodičom a strávila 18 mesiacov v kóme. Na TEDxDU rozpráva pozoruhodný príbeh o svojom zotavení - čerpajúc z kolektívnych znalostí a múdrosti domova dôchodcov.
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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Podelím sa s vami o niečo,
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I haven't talked about probably in more than 10 years.
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o čom som nerozprávala pravdepodobne dlhšie ako 10 rokov.
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So bear with me
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Takže majte so mnou strpenie,
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as I take you through this journey.
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ako Vás prevediem touto cestou.
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When I was 22 years old,
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Keď som mala 22 rokov,
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I came home from work, put a leash on my dog
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prišla som domov z práce, dala vodítko na svojho psa
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and went for my usual run.
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a išla som sa ako zvyčajne prebehnúť.
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I had no idea that at that moment
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Netušila som, že v tú chvíľu
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my life was going to change forever.
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sa môj život navždy zmení.
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While I was preparing my dog for the run,
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Kým som pripravovala svojho psa na beh,
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a man was finishing drinking at a bar,
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muž dopíjal pohárik v bare,
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picked up his car keys, got into a car
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zdvihol kľúče od auta, nasadol do auta
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and headed south,
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a zamieril na juh
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or wherever he was.
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alebo kdekoľvek išiel.
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I was running across the street,
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Bežala som cez ulicu,
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and the only thing that I actually remember
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a jediná vec, ktorú si naozaj pamätám
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is feeling like a grenade went off in my head.
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je pocit, akoby v mojej hlave vybuchol granát.
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And I remember putting my hands on the ground
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A pamätám si, ako som položila ruky na zem
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and feeling my life's blood
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a cítila moju životodárnu krv
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emptying out of my neck
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vytekať z môjho krku
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and my mouth.
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a mojich úst.
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What had happened
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Čo sa stalo,
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is he ran a red light and hit me and my dog.
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je, že prešiel na červenú a zrazil mňa a môjho psa.
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She ended up underneath the car.
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Ona skončila pod autom.
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I flew out in front of the car,
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Ja som vyletela pred auto,
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and then he ran over my legs.
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a vtedy mi prešiel cez nohy.
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My left leg got caught up in the wheel well --
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Moja ľavá noha sa dostala do kolesa -
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spun it around.
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ktoré ju točilo dookola.
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The bumper of the car hit my throat,
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Náraznik auta narazil do môjho hrdla,
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slicing it open.
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a otvoril ho dokorán.
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I ended up with blunt chest trauma.
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Skončila som s tupou traumou hrudníka.
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Your aorta comes up behind your heart.
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Vaša aorta vychádza spoza vášho srdca.
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It's your major artery, and it was severed,
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Je to vaša hlavná tepna, a tá bola preťatá,
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so my blood was gurgling out of my mouth.
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takže moja krv bublala z mojich úst.
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It foamed,
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Penila,
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and horrible things were happening to me.
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a diali sa mi hrozné veci.
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I had no idea what was going on,
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Nemala som poňatia, čo sa deje,
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but strangers intervened,
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ale okoloidúci zasiahli,
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kept my heart moving, beating.
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udržiavali moje srdce v pohybe, bijúc.
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I say moving because it was quivering
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Hovorím v pohybe, pretože sa chvelo
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and they were trying to put a beat back into it.
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a oni sa snažili priniesť rytmus späť doň.
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Somebody was smart and put a Bic pen in my neck
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Niekto bol šikovný a vložil mi do krku Bic pero,
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to open up my airway so that I could get some air in there.
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aby otvoril moje dýchacie cesty a ja som mohla dostať nejaký vzduch.
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And my lung collapsed,
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A moje pľúca skolabovali,
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so somebody cut me open and put a pin in there as well
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takže niekto ma otvoril a takisto mi tam vložil kolík,
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to stop that catastrophic event from happening.
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aby zastavil tu katastrofickú možnosť ich zastavenia.
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Somehow I ended up at the hospital.
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Nejako som skončila v nemocnici.
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I was wrapped in ice
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Bola som zabalená v ľade
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and then eventually put into a drug-induced coma.
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a nakoniec uvedená do drogovo navodenej kómy.
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18 months later I woke up.
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O 18 mesiacov neskôr som sa zobudila.
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I was blind, I couldn't speak,
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Bola som slepá, nemohola som hovoriť,
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and I couldn't walk.
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a nemohla som chodiť.
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I was 64 lbs.
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Mala som 32 kilogramov.
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The hospital really has no idea
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V nemocnici naozaj nemali potuchy,
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what to do with people like that.
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čo robiť s ľuďmi, ako ja.
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And in fact, they started to call me a Gomer.
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A v skutočnosti, mi začali hovoriť Gomer.
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That's another story we won't even get into.
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To je iný príbeh, do ktorého sa nebudeme ani dostávať.
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I had so many surgeries to put my neck back together,
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Podstúpila som veľa operácií, aby dali môj krk zase dohromady,
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to repair my heart a few times.
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a niekoľkokrát opravili moje srdce.
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Some things worked, some things didn't.
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Niektoré veci fungovali, iné nie.
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I had lots of titanium put in me,
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Bolo do mňa vloženého veľa titánia,
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cadaver bones
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kosti mŕtvoly,
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to try to get my feet moving the right way.
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ktoré mali prinútiť moje nohy hybať sa správnou cestou.
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And I ended up with a plastic nose, porcelain teeth
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Skončila som s plastikou nosa, porcelánovými zubami
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and all kinds of other things.
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a všakovakými inými vecami.
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But eventually I started to look human again.
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Ale nakoniec som znova začala vyzerať ako človek.
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But it's hard sometimes to talk about these things,
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Ale niekedy je ťažké hovoriť o týchto veciach,
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so bear with me.
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tak majte so mnou strpenie.
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I had more than 50 surgeries.
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Mala som viac ako 50 operácií.
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But who's counting?
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Ale kto by ich rátal?
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So eventually, the hospital decided
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Takže nakoniec sa nemocnica rozhodla,
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it was time for me to go.
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že je čas, aby som išla ďalej.
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They needed to open up space
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Potrebovali uvoľniť miesto
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for somebody else that they thought could come back
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pre niekoho iného, o kom si mysleli, že sa môže vrátiť späť
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from whatever they were going through.
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z čohokoľvek, cez čo práve prechádzal.
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Everybody lost faith in me being able to recover.
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Každý stratil vieru v moje uzdravenie.
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So they basically put a map up on the wall, threw a dart,
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Takže v podstate dali mapu na stenu, hodili šípkou
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and it landed at a senior home here in Colorado.
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a tá padla na domov dôchodcov tu v Colorade.
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And I know all of you are scratching your head:
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A ja viem, že sa všetci škrabkáte po hlave:
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"A senior citizens' home? What in the world are you going to do there?"
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"Domov dôchodcov? Čo na svete budeš robiť tam?"
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But if you think about
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Ale ak sa nad tým zamyslíte,
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all of the skills and talent that are in this room right now,
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všetky schopnosti a nadania, ktoré sú v tejto miestnosti práve teraz,
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that's what a senior home has.
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to je to, čo má domov dôchodcov.
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So there were all these skills and talents
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Takže tam boli všetky tieto zručnosti a schopnosti,
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that these seniors had.
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ktoré títo dôchodci mali.
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The one advantage that they had over most of you
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Jedinú výhodu,ktorú mali oproti väčšine z Vás
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is wisdom,
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je múdrosť,
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because they had a long life.
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pretože oni mali dlhý život.
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And I needed that wisdom at that moment in my life.
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A v tom momente môjho života som potrebovala túto múdrosť.
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But imagine what it was like for them
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Ale predstavte si, aké to bolo pre nich,
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when I showed up at their doorstep?
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keď som sa objavila v ich dverách?
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At that point, I had gained four pounds,
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V tom momente som už pribrala 4 libry,
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so I was 68 lbs.
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takže som mala 34 kilogramov.
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I was bald.
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Bola som holohlavá.
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I was wearing hospital scrubs.
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Mala som na sebe nemocničnú uniformu.
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And somebody donated tennis shoes for me.
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A niekto mi daroval tenisky.
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And I had a white cane in one hand
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A mala som bielu palicu v jednej ruke
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and a suitcase full of medical records in another hand.
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a kufor plný lekárskych záznamov v druhej.
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And so the senior citizens realized
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A tak títo dochôdci zistili,
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that they needed to have an emergency meeting.
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že potrebujú mať mimoriadne zasadnutie.
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(Laughter)
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(Smiech)
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So they pulled back and they were looking at each other,
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Takže sa odstúpili, pozreli jeden na druhého,
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and they were going, "Okay, what skills do we have in this room?
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a šli, "Ok, aké zručnosti máme v tejto miestnosti?
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This kid needs a lot of work."
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Toto dieťa potrebuje veľa práce."
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So they eventually started
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Takže nakoniec začali
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matching their talents and skills
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spájať ich talenty a zručnosti
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to all of my needs.
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ku všetkým mojim potrebám.
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But one of the first things they needed to do
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Ale jedna z prvých vecí, ktoré potrebovali urobiť,
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was assess what I needed right away.
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bolo posúdiť, čo som potrebovala najskôr.
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I needed to figure out
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Potrebovala som zistiť,
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how to eat like a normal human being,
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ako jesť ako normálny človek,
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since I'd been eating through a tube in my chest
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pretože som jedla cez infúziu v mojej hrudi
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and through my veins.
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a v mojich žilách.
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So I had to go through trying to eat again.
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Takže som musela prejsť cez skúšanie znova jesť.
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And they went through that process.
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A oni tiež prešli týmto procesom.
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And then they had to figure out:
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A potom zistili:
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"Well she needs furniture.
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"No, ona potrebuje nábytok.
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She is sleeping in the corner of this apartment."
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Spí v rohu tohto bytu."
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So they went to their storage lockers
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Takže išli do svojich úložných priestorov
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and all gathered their extra furniture --
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a všetci pozbierali svoj extra nábytok --
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gave me pots and pans, blankets,
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dali mi hrnce a panvice, prikrývky,
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everything.
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všetko.
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And then the next thing that I needed
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A potom ďalšia vec, ktorú som potrebovala,
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was a makeover.
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bola premena.
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So out went the green scrubs
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Takže zmyzol zelený nemocničný úbor
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and in came the polyester and floral prints.
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a nahradil ho polyester a kvetinové vzory.
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(Laughter)
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(Smiech)
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We're not going to talk about the hairstyles that they tried to force on me
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Nebudeme hovoriť o účesoch, ktoré sa mi snažili nanútiť,
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once my hair grew back.
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keď mi znova narástli vlasy.
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But I did say no to the blue hair.
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Ale povedala som nie modrým vlasom.
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(Laughter)
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(Smiech)
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So eventually what went on
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Takže, k čomu nakoniec prišlo,
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is they decided that, well I need to learn to speak.
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bolo, že sa rozhodli, že sa potrebujem naučiť rozprávať.
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So you can't be an independent person
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Nemôžete byť nezávislý človek,
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if you're not able to speak and can't see.
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ak nie ste schopný rozprávať a nemôžete vidieť.
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So they figured not being able to see is one thing,
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Došli k názoru, že byť slepá je jedna vec,
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but they need to get me to talk.
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ale museli ma prinútiť rozprávať.
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So while Sally, the office manager,
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Takže zatiaľ čo Sally, vedúca kancelárie,
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was teaching me to speak in the day --
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ma učila rozprávať cez deň -
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it's hard, because when you're a kid,
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je to ťažké, pretože keď ste dieťa,
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you take things for granted.
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beriete veci za samozrejmé.
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You learn things unconsciously.
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Učíte sa veci podvedome.
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But for me, I was an adult and it was embarrassing,
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Ale pre mňa, ako dospelú, to bolo zahanbujúce,
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and I had to learn how to coordinate
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musela som sa naučiť ako koordinovať
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my new throat with my tongue
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moje nové hrdlo s mojim jazykom
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and my new teeth and my lips,
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a so svojimi novými zubami a perami,
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and capture the air and get the word out.
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a zachytiť vzduch a dostať slovo von.
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So I acted like a two-year-old
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Takže som sa správala ako dvojročná
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and refused to work.
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a odmietla spolupracovať.
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But the men had a better idea.
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Ale muži mali lepší nápad.
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They were going to make it fun for me.
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Chceli mi z toho urobyť zábavu.
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So they were teaching me cuss word Scrabble at night,
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Takže v noci ma učili Scrabble Sprostých slov,
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(Laughter)
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(Smiech)
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and then, secretly,
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a potom, tajne,
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how to swear like a sailor.
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nadávať ako námorník.
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So I'm going to just leave it to your imagination
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Takže to nechám na vašej predstavivosti,
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as to what my first words were
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aké boli moje prvé slová,
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when Sally finally got my confidence built.
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keď mi Sally konečne dodala sebadôveru.
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(Laughter)
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(Smiech)
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So I moved on from there.
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Od toho bodu som sa pohla.
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And a former teacher who happened to have Alzheimer's
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A bývalý učiteľ, ktorý náhodou mal Alzheimera,
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took on the task of teaching me to write.
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sa podujal naučiť ma písať.
07:28
The redundancy was actually good for me.
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Opakovanie bolo vlastne pre mňa dobré.
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So we'll just keep moving on.
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Takže pôjdeme ďalej.
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(Laughter)
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(Smiech)
07:38
One of the pivotal times for me
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Jedna z rozhodujúcich vecí pre mňa
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was actually learning to cross a street again
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bolo sa znova naučiť prejsť cez cestu
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as a blind person.
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ako slepý človek.
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So close your eyes.
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Takže zatvorte svoje oči.
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Now imagine you have to cross a street.
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Predstavte si teraz, že musíte prejsť cez cestu.
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You don't know how far that street is
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Neviete aká široká je cesta
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and you don't know if you're going straight
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a neviete či idete rovno
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and you hear cars whizzing back and forth,
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a môžete počuť autá svištiace tam a späť,
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and you had a horrible accident
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a mali ste strašnú nehodu,
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that landed you in this situation.
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pre ktorú ste skončili v tejto situácii.
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So there were two obstacles I had to get through.
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Takže boli tu dve prekážky, ktoré som musela prekonať.
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One was post-traumatic stress disorder.
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Jedna z nich bola posttraumatická stresová porucha.
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And every time I approached the corner or the curb
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Zakaždým, keď som sa priblížila k rohu alebo obrubníku,
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I would panic.
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spanikárila som.
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And the second one
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A druhá vec
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was actually trying to figure out how to cross that street.
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bolo samotné skúšanie prísť na to, ako cez tú cestu prejsť.
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So one of the seniors just came up to me,
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Takže jedna zo senioriek prišla ku mne,
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and she pushed me up to the corner and she said,
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a dotlačila ma na roh ulice a povedala,
08:29
"When you think it's time to go, just stick the cane out there.
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"Keď si myslíš, že je čas ísť, iba vystrč palicu von pred seba.
08:32
If it's hit, don't cross the street."
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Ak je palica zrazená, nechoď na cestu."
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(Laughter)
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(Smiech)
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Made perfect sense.
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Dávalo to perfektný zmysel.
08:42
But by the third cane
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Pri tretej palici,
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that went whizzing across the road,
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ktorá zasvišťala cez cestu,
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they realized that they needed to put the resources together,
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zistili, že potrebujú dať dokopy nejaké zdroje,
08:50
and they raised funds
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a tak vyzbierali prostiredky,
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so that I could go to the Braille Institute
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aby som mohla ísť do Brailovho inštitútu
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and actually gain the skills
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a získať schopnosti
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to be a blind person,
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byť slepým človekom,
08:58
and also to go get a guide dog
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a tiež ísť a dostať vodiaceho psa,
09:00
who transformed my life.
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ktorý transformoval môj život.
09:02
And I was able to return to college
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A bola som schopná vrátiť sa na vysokú školu,
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because of the senior citizens who invested in me,
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práve kvôli dôchodcom, ktorí investovali do mňa,
09:08
and also the guide dog and skill set I had gained.
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môjho vodiaceho psa a schopností, ktoré som získala.
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10 years later I gained my sight back.
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10 rokov neskôr som získala svoj zrak späť.
09:14
Not magically.
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Nie magicky.
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I opted in for three surgeries,
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Podujala som sa na 3 operácie,
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and one of them was experimental.
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a jedna z nich bola experimentom.
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It was actually robotic surgery.
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Bola to vlastne robotická operácia.
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They removed a hematoma from behind my eye.
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Odstránili hematóm za mojim okom.
09:27
The biggest change for me
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Najväčšou zmenou pre mňa bolo,
09:29
was that the world moved forward,
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že svet sa pohol dopredu,
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that there were innovations
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že tu boli inovácie
09:34
and all kinds of new things --
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a nové veci všetkého druhu --
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cellphones, laptops,
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mobily, laptopy,
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all these things that I had never seen before.
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všetky tieto veci, ktoré som nikdy predtým nevidela.
09:41
And as a blind person,
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A ako slepý človek,
09:43
your visual memory fades
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vaša vizuálna pamäť sa stráca
09:45
and is replaced with how you feel about things
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a je nahradená tým, ako veci cítite,
09:48
and how things sound
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ako veci znejú
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and how things smell.
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a ako veci voňajú.
09:54
So one day I was in my room
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Jeden deň som bola vo svojej izbe
09:56
and I saw this thing sitting in my room
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a videla som v nej sedieť túto vec
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and I thought it was a monster.
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a myslela som si, že je to netvor.
10:00
So I was walking around it.
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Takže som okolo toho kráčala.
10:02
And I go, "I'm just going to touch it."
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A povedala som si, "Iba sa toho dotknem."
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And I touched it and I went,
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A dotkla som sa toho a zistila som,
10:06
"Oh my God, it's a laundry basket."
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"Môj bože, je to kôš na prádlo."
10:08
(Laughter)
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(Smiech)
10:12
So everything is different
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Všetko je odlišné,
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when you're a sighted person
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keď ste vidiaci človek,
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because you take that for granted.
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pretože to beriete ako samozrejmosť.
10:18
But when you're blind,
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Ale, keď ste slepí,
10:20
you have the tactile memory for things.
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máte pre veci hmatovú pamäť.
10:23
The biggest change for me was looking down at my hands
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Najväčšou zmenou pre mňa bolo sa pozrieť dole na moje ruky
10:26
and seeing that I'd lost 10 years of my life.
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a vidieť, že som stratila 10 rokov môjho života.
10:30
I thought that time had stood still for some reason
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Myslela som si, že z nejakého dôvodu pre mňa čas stál
10:33
and moved on for family and friends.
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a išiel pre moju rodinu a priateľov.
10:35
But when I looked down,
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Ale keď som sa pozrela dole,
10:37
I realized that time marched on for me too
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zistila som, že čas plynul pre mňa rovnako
10:39
and that I needed to get caught up,
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a že som ho potrebovala dobehnúť,
10:41
so I got going on it.
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tak som sa do toho pustila.
10:43
We didn't have words like crowd-sourcing and radical collaboration
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My sme nemali slová ako outsourcing and radikálna spolupráca,
10:47
when I had my accident.
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keď som mala moju nehodu.
10:49
But the concept held true --
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Ale koncept sa potvrdil --
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people working with people to rebuild me;
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ľudia spolupracujúci s ľudmi na mojej obnove,
10:54
people working with people to re-educate me.
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ľudia spolupracujúci s ľudmi na mojom znovuvzdelaní.
10:56
I wouldn't be standing here today
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Nestála by som tu dnes,
10:58
if it wasn't for extreme radical collaboration.
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nebyť extrémne radikálnej spolupráce.
11:02
Thank you so much.
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Ďakujem vám veľmi pekne.
11:04
(Applause)
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(Potlesk)
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