TEDxDU 2011
Ramona Pierson: An unexpected place of healing
Ramona Pirson (Ramona Pierson): Neočekivano mesto isceljenja
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Kada je Ramona imala 22 godine, udario ju je pijani vozač i provela je 18 meseci u komi. Na TEDxDU događaju ona priča neverovatnu priču svog oporavka -- koristeći se kolektivnim veštinama i mudrošću doma za stare.
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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Danas ću sa vama da podelim nešto
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I haven't talked about probably in more than 10 years.
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o čemu nisam govorila verovatno više od 10 godina.
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So bear with me
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Ostanite uz mene
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as I take you through this journey.
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dok vas vodim na ovo putovanje.
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When I was 22 years old,
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Kada sam imala 22 godine,
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I came home from work, put a leash on my dog
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vratila sam se kući sa posla, stavila povodac svom psu
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and went for my usual run.
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i otišla na moje uobičajeno trčanje.
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I had no idea that at that moment
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U tom trenutku nisam imala pojma
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my life was going to change forever.
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da će mi se život zauvek izmeniti.
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While I was preparing my dog for the run,
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Dok sam pripremala svog psa za trčanje,
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a man was finishing drinking at a bar,
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jedan čovek je završavao svoje piće u jednom baru,
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picked up his car keys, got into a car
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pokupio je svoje ključeve od automobila, ušao u automobil
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and headed south,
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i zaputio se južno,
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or wherever he was.
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ili gde god da je krenuo.
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I was running across the street,
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Trčala sam preko ulice,
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and the only thing that I actually remember
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i jedina stvar koje se zapravo sećam
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is feeling like a grenade went off in my head.
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je osećaj kao da mi je granata eksplodirala u glavi.
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And I remember putting my hands on the ground
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Sećam se spuštanja šaka na zemlju,
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and feeling my life's blood
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i osećanja moje životne krvi
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emptying out of my neck
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kako napušta moj vrat
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and my mouth.
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i moja usta.
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What had happened
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Ono što se desilo
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is he ran a red light and hit me and my dog.
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je da je on prošao na crveno svetlo i zgazio mene i mog psa.
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She ended up underneath the car.
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Ona je završila ispod automobila.
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I flew out in front of the car,
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Ja sam izletela ispred automobila,
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and then he ran over my legs.
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a onda mi je on pregazio noge.
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My left leg got caught up in the wheel well --
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Moju levu nogu je uhvatio točak i
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spun it around.
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vrteo je okolo.
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The bumper of the car hit my throat,
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Branik automobila je udario u moje grlo i
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slicing it open.
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isekao ga.
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I ended up with blunt chest trauma.
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Završila sam sa ugnječenjem grudnog koša.
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Your aorta comes up behind your heart.
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Vaša aorta izlazi sa zadnje strane vašeg srca.
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It's your major artery, and it was severed,
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To je vaša glavna arterija i bila je prekinuta,
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so my blood was gurgling out of my mouth.
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tako da mi je krv krkljala kroz usta.
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It foamed,
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Penila je
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and horrible things were happening to me.
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i meni su se događale strašne stvari.
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I had no idea what was going on,
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Nisam imala pojma šta se dešava,
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but strangers intervened,
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ali neznanci su se umešali,
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kept my heart moving, beating.
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koji su održali pomeranja i otkucaje mog srca.
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I say moving because it was quivering
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Kažem, pomeranja, zato što je zapravo slabašno drhtalo
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and they were trying to put a beat back into it.
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a oni su pokušali da ga nateraju da ponovo počne da kuca.
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Somebody was smart and put a Bic pen in my neck
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Neko se setio da mi zabije hemijsku olovku u grlo
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to open up my airway so that I could get some air in there.
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da otvori disajne puteve da bi nešto vazduha prodrlo u njih.
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And my lung collapsed,
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Jedno plućno krilo je kolabiralo,
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so somebody cut me open and put a pin in there as well
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pa me je neko rasekao i zabio olovku i u njega
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to stop that catastrophic event from happening.
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da bi sprečio odvijanje tog katastrofalnog događaja.
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Somehow I ended up at the hospital.
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Nekako sam završila u bolnici.
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I was wrapped in ice
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Bila sam umotana u led
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and then eventually put into a drug-induced coma.
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i konačno stavljena u komu izazvanu lekovima.
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18 months later I woke up.
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Probudila sam se 18 meseci kasnije.
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I was blind, I couldn't speak,
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Bila sam slepa, nisam mogla da govorim
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and I couldn't walk.
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i nisam mogla da hodam.
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I was 64 lbs.
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Imala sam 29 kilograma.
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The hospital really has no idea
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Bolnice zaista nemaju pojma
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what to do with people like that.
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šta da rade sa takvim ljudima.
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And in fact, they started to call me a Gomer.
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Zapravo, poceli su da me zovu Gomer.
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That's another story we won't even get into.
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To je druga priča u koju neću čak ni da zalazim.
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I had so many surgeries to put my neck back together,
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Imala sam tako mnogo operacija da bi mi sastavili vrat,
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to repair my heart a few times.
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popravili srce nekoliko puta,
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Some things worked, some things didn't.
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Neke stvari su davale rezultate, druge nisu.
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I had lots of titanium put in me,
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Mnogo su titanijuma stavili u mene,
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cadaver bones
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kosti sa leševa,
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to try to get my feet moving the right way.
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da bi pokušali da osposobe moja stopala za normalne pokrete.
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And I ended up with a plastic nose, porcelain teeth
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Završila sam sa plastičnim nosem, porculanskim zubima
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and all kinds of other things.
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i mnogim drugim stvarima.
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But eventually I started to look human again.
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Ipak sam na kraju opet počela da ličim na ljudsko biće.
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But it's hard sometimes to talk about these things,
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Međutim, ponekada je teško govoriti o ovim stvarima
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so bear with me.
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i zato ostanite sa mnom.
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I had more than 50 surgeries.
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Imala sam više od 50 operacija.
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But who's counting?
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Ali ko broji?
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So eventually, the hospital decided
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Na kraju je bolnica odlučila
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it was time for me to go.
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da je vreme da odem.
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They needed to open up space
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Trebalo je osloboditi mesto
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for somebody else that they thought could come back
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za nekog drugog za koga su verovali da se može povratiti
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from whatever they were going through.
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iz čega god da je prolazio.
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Everybody lost faith in me being able to recover.
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Svi su izgubili nadu u moju veru u oporavak.
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So they basically put a map up on the wall, threw a dart,
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U osnovi su postavili mapu na zid, bacili strelicu
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and it landed at a senior home here in Colorado.
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i ona se zabola na domu za stare, ovde u Koloradu.
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And I know all of you are scratching your head:
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Znam da sada češete glave:
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"A senior citizens' home? What in the world are you going to do there?"
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"Dom za stare? Šta ćeš tamo da radiš"?
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But if you think about
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Ali ako pomislite na sve
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all of the skills and talent that are in this room right now,
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veštine i talente koji su upravo sada u ovoj prostoriji,
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that's what a senior home has.
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to je ono što dom za stare ima.
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So there were all these skills and talents
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Tamo je bilo svih tih veština i talenata
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that these seniors had.
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koje su stariji imali.
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The one advantage that they had over most of you
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Jedina prednost koju su imali u odnosu na većinu vas
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is wisdom,
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je mudrost,
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because they had a long life.
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jer su imali dug život.
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And I needed that wisdom at that moment in my life.
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U tom trenutku mog života, ta mudrost mi je bila neophodna.
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But imagine what it was like for them
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Međutim, zamislite kako je bilo njima
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when I showed up at their doorstep?
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kada sam se pojavila na njihovom pragu?
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At that point, I had gained four pounds,
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Do tog trenutka sam dodala 2 kilograma,
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so I was 68 lbs.
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tako da sam imala 31 kilogram.
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I was bald.
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Bila sam ćelava.
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I was wearing hospital scrubs.
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Nosila sam bolnički ogrtač.
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And somebody donated tennis shoes for me.
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Neko je za mene donirao teniske cipele.
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And I had a white cane in one hand
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U jednoj ruci sam imala beli štap
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and a suitcase full of medical records in another hand.
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a u drugoj kofer pun medicinskih zapisa.
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And so the senior citizens realized
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I tako su stariji sugrađani shvatili
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that they needed to have an emergency meeting.
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da im je potreban hitan sastanak.
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(Laughter)
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(Smeh)
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So they pulled back and they were looking at each other,
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Tako su se povukli i gledali jedni u druge
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and they were going, "Okay, what skills do we have in this room?
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i pitali se: "U redu, koje veštine imamo u ovoj sobi?
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This kid needs a lot of work."
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Ovom detetu je potrebno puno rada."
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So they eventually started
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Konačno su počeli
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matching their talents and skills
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da upoređuju svoje talente i veštine
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to all of my needs.
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sa svim mojim potrebama.
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But one of the first things they needed to do
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Međutim, jedna od prvih stvari koje su trebali da urade
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was assess what I needed right away.
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jeste da procene šta mi je odmah bilo neophodno.
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I needed to figure out
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Trebala sam da otkrijem
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how to eat like a normal human being,
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kako da jedem kao normalno ljudsko biće,
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since I'd been eating through a tube in my chest
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pošto sam jela kroz cevčicu u mojim grudima
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and through my veins.
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i kroz moje vene.
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So I had to go through trying to eat again.
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Ponovo sam morala da prođem kroz pokušaje obedovanja.
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And they went through that process.
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I oni su prošli kroz taj proces.
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And then they had to figure out:
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A onda su morali da shvate:
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"Well she needs furniture.
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"Pa njoj je neophodan nameštaj.
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She is sleeping in the corner of this apartment."
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Ona spava u uglu ovog stana."
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So they went to their storage lockers
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Otišli su do njihovih ormara
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and all gathered their extra furniture --
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i svi su sakupili višak svog nameštaja --
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gave me pots and pans, blankets,
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dali su mi šerpe i tiganje, ćebad,
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everything.
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sve.
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And then the next thing that I needed
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Sledeća stvar koja mi je trebala
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was a makeover.
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je bila promena izgleda.
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So out went the green scrubs
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Tako su zeleni ogrtači odleteli napolje,
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and in came the polyester and floral prints.
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a zamenili su ih poliester i cvetni dezeni.
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(Laughter)
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(Smeh)
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We're not going to talk about the hairstyles that they tried to force on me
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Nećemo ni da govorimo o frizurama na koje su pokušali da me primoraju,
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once my hair grew back.
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jednom kada mi je kosa ponovo izrasla.
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But I did say no to the blue hair.
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Ali jesam rekla ne plavoj kosi.
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(Laughter)
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(Smeh)
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So eventually what went on
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Na kraju se desilo
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is they decided that, well I need to learn to speak.
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da su odlučili da treba da naučim kako da govorim.
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So you can't be an independent person
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Ne možete biti nezavisna osoba
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if you're not able to speak and can't see.
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ako ne možete da govorite i da vidite.
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So they figured not being able to see is one thing,
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Shvatili su da je nemogućnost vida jedna stvar
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but they need to get me to talk.
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ali trebali su da me nauče da govorim.
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So while Sally, the office manager,
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Dok me je Sali, službenica,
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was teaching me to speak in the day --
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učila da govorim tokom dana --
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it's hard, because when you're a kid,
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što je teško, jer kada ste dete,
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you take things for granted.
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stvari uzimate zdravo za gotovo.
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You learn things unconsciously.
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Nesvesno učite stvari.
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But for me, I was an adult and it was embarrassing,
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Ali za mene, bila sam odrasla i to je bilo sramotno,
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and I had to learn how to coordinate
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a morala sam da naučim kako da koordinišem
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my new throat with my tongue
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moje novo grlo sa jezikom
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and my new teeth and my lips,
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i mojim novim zubima i usnama
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and capture the air and get the word out.
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i kako da uhvatim vazduh i izbacim reč.
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So I acted like a two-year-old
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Ponašala sam se kao dvogodišnjakinja
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and refused to work.
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i odbijala da radim.
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But the men had a better idea.
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Ali muškarci su imali bolju ideju.
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They were going to make it fun for me.
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Hteli su da to učine zabavnim za mene.
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So they were teaching me cuss word Scrabble at night,
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Noćima su me učili ukrštenice sa psovkama,
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(Laughter)
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(Smeh)
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and then, secretly,
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a onda, tajno,
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how to swear like a sailor.
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kako da psujem kao mornar.
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So I'm going to just leave it to your imagination
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Ostaviću vašoj mašti
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as to what my first words were
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koje su bile moje prve reči
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when Sally finally got my confidence built.
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kada mi je Seli konačno povratila samopouzdanje.
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(Laughter)
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(Smeh)
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So I moved on from there.
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Odatle sam napredovala.
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And a former teacher who happened to have Alzheimer's
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Nekadašnja učiteljica, koja je igrom slučaja imala Alchajmera,
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took on the task of teaching me to write.
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preuzela je zadatak da me nauči da pišem.
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The redundancy was actually good for me.
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Suvišnost je zapravo bila dobra za mene.
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So we'll just keep moving on.
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Nastavićemo da idemo dalje.
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(Laughter)
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(Smeh)
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One of the pivotal times for me
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Jedno od najznačajnijih vremena za mene
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was actually learning to cross a street again
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bilo je kada sam ponovo učila kako da pređem ulicu,
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as a blind person.
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kao slepa osoba.
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So close your eyes.
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Zatvorite vaše oči.
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Now imagine you have to cross a street.
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Sada zamislite da morate da pređete ulicu.
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You don't know how far that street is
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Ne znate koliko je ta ulica daleko,
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and you don't know if you're going straight
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ne znate da li se krećete po pravoj liniji
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and you hear cars whizzing back and forth,
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i čujete automobile kako zuje napred nazad,
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and you had a horrible accident
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a imali ste užasnu nesreću
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that landed you in this situation.
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koja vas je i stavila u tu situaciju.
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So there were two obstacles I had to get through.
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Postojale su dakle dve prepreke sa kojima sam morala da se izborim.
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One was post-traumatic stress disorder.
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Jedna od njih je bio post-traumatski stres.
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And every time I approached the corner or the curb
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Svaki put kada bih se približila uglu ili ivičnjaku,
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I would panic.
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paničila sam.
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And the second one
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Druga prepreka je bio
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was actually trying to figure out how to cross that street.
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pokušaj da shvatim kako da zapravo pređem tu ulicu.
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So one of the seniors just came up to me,
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Tako je jedna od starica došla do mene,
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and she pushed me up to the corner and she said,
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gurnula me do ugla i rekla:
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"When you think it's time to go, just stick the cane out there.
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"Kada misliš da je vreme da kreneš, samo proturi štap ispred.
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If it's hit, don't cross the street."
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Ako bude udaren, ne prelazi ulicu."
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(Laughter)
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(Smeh)
08:39
Made perfect sense.
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Imalo je smisla.
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But by the third cane
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Ali do trećeg štapa
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that went whizzing across the road,
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koji je fijuknuo preko puta,
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they realized that they needed to put the resources together,
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shvatili su da su morali da udruže resurse
08:50
and they raised funds
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i sakupili su dovoljno sredstava
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so that I could go to the Braille Institute
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da bih mogla da odem na Brajev Institut
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and actually gain the skills
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i da zapravo usvojim veštine
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to be a blind person,
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da budem slepa osoba,
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and also to go get a guide dog
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i takođe da dobijem psa vodiča
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who transformed my life.
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koji je transformisao moj život.
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And I was able to return to college
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Mogla sam da se vratim na koledž,
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because of the senior citizens who invested in me,
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zbog seniora koji su investirali u mene,
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and also the guide dog and skill set I had gained.
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i takođe zbog psa vodiča i seta veština koje sam bila usvojila.
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10 years later I gained my sight back.
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10 godina kasnije, povratila sam svoj vid.
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Not magically.
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Ne magijom.
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I opted in for three surgeries,
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Odlučila sam se za tri operacije,
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and one of them was experimental.
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a jedna od njih je bila eksperimentalna.
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It was actually robotic surgery.
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To je zapravo bila robotizovana operacija.
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They removed a hematoma from behind my eye.
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Uklonili su hematom koji je bio iza mog oka.
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The biggest change for me
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Najveća promena za mene
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was that the world moved forward,
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bila je ta što je svet napredovao,
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that there were innovations
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što je bilo inovacija
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and all kinds of new things --
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i svakojakih novih stvari --
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cellphones, laptops,
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mobilnih telefona, laptopova,
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all these things that I had never seen before.
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i stvari koje nikada ranije nisam videla.
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And as a blind person,
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Kao slepa osoba,
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your visual memory fades
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vaša vizuelna memorija bledi
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and is replaced with how you feel about things
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i biva zamenjena time kako se osećate u vezi sa stvarima
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and how things sound
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i kako stvari zvuče
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and how things smell.
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i kako mirišu.
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So one day I was in my room
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Jednog dana sam bila u svojoj sobi
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and I saw this thing sitting in my room
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i videla sam ovu stvar u mojoj sobi
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and I thought it was a monster.
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i pomislila da je to čudovište.
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So I was walking around it.
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I tako sam hodala oko njega.
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And I go, "I'm just going to touch it."
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Pomislila sam: "Samo ću da ga dodirnem".
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And I touched it and I went,
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I dodirnula sam ga i sinulo mi je:
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"Oh my God, it's a laundry basket."
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"O moj Bože, pa to je korpa za veš".
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(Laughter)
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(Smeh)
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So everything is different
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Sve je drugačije
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when you're a sighted person
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kada ste osoba obdarena vidom
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because you take that for granted.
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zato što to uzimate zdravo za gotovo.
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But when you're blind,
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Međutim, kada ste slepi,
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you have the tactile memory for things.
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imate taktilna sećanja za stvari.
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The biggest change for me was looking down at my hands
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Najveća promena za mene je bila kada sam pogledala svoje šake
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and seeing that I'd lost 10 years of my life.
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i videla da sam izgubila 10 godina svog života.
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I thought that time had stood still for some reason
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Iz nekog razloga sam mislila da je vreme stajalo
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and moved on for family and friends.
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a kretalo se za porodicu i prijatelje.
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But when I looked down,
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Međutim, kada sam pogledala na dole,
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I realized that time marched on for me too
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shvatila sam da je vreme promarširalo pored mene, takođe
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and that I needed to get caught up,
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i da sam trebala da ga sustignem,
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so I got going on it.
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pa sam se bacila na posao.
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We didn't have words like crowd-sourcing and radical collaboration
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Mi nismo imali reči poput kraudsorsinga i radikalne saradnje
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when I had my accident.
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kada sam doživela nesreću.
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But the concept held true --
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Međutim, koncept se pokazao istinitim --
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people working with people to rebuild me;
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ljudi koji rade sa ljudima da bi me ponovo izgradili;
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people working with people to re-educate me.
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ljudi koji rade sa ljudima da bi me ponovo obrazovali.
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I wouldn't be standing here today
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Danas ne bih stajala ovde
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if it wasn't for extreme radical collaboration.
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da nije bilo ekstremne radikalne saradnje.
11:02
Thank you so much.
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Hvala vam puno.
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(Applause)
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(Aplauz)
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