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Mi infancia en terapia intensiva | Sara Lerma | TEDxAvDivDelNorte


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the parts of my body that are
synthetic and that my friends and humans
they did the word favor
but I’m sorry to disappoint
another secret and I have a lot of 10
rites throughout the human body half
machine and on occasion one of my
doctors told me that I was not more than
an overheated corpse let me
I talk about how that happened when I
I was three months old we had a
very serious car accident
I promise you that I was not driving but
as a result of that they had to install me
a lot of iron hoses valves
and metal bits in the brain by
the neck in the abdomen and in one of my
legs
and that brings us to the next point
I was always what I like to say
a hospital girl who are we
hospital children
the hospital children are those children
that when we left elementary school we
We were going to have analyzes done to us
they will take blood from us
studies or operated us I knew better
the names of the specialties
medical than those of my characters
favorites in the cartoons and had
enough more lipo verbs with my
doctors that with my friends
but do not put on those sad faces that
I saw them the truth is that being a child
of hospital is something incredible I
I had a wonderful time
I’m going to ask you to remember when
you were children what was your toy
favorite or love or a toy that does not
they had but they dreamed about maybe
it was a gadget, a bicycle, a car or
a robot I do not know they already remembered
let me give you one of my
favorites this toy had lights
pieces that moved
a lot of incredible parts sometimes
the machine cia in time sometimes
the space rocket chair
and best of all, he came with a
assistant who was paid
specifically to be part of
my crew sometimes until I
they injected a phosphorescent liquid that
gave me super powers to ensure that
my mission was a success it looked
more or less like that it has already given them envy
well let me tell you more
about children Hospital and the
well we did not pass it for me
remove those sad faces in some
occasion that I was in intensive care
childish I was already a little bit more
big would be about 11 12 years old but
there was a child in a bed near the
mine that was 17 years old or so that
he was one of those children who all day long
they are laughing and singing and jumping and
that nothing else to see them fills you with
desire to be alive and to be happy and to
throw yourself on the floor to play with them good
well to us in hospital children
that we live so long in the
hospitals as we are always doing
disorder happens to us very often that the
manguerita where we drop the serum
knots are made and we are filled with
dirt and things not then often not
they have to be changing the poor
nurses and when that happens
obviously the blood comes under pressure
we hospital kids know
that’s very good and this child from whom they
I’m talking about that by the way it was super
Spider-man fan knew it was perfect
then one day the nurse arrived
change the catheter , it came out
down the arm and ran out
the whole aisle singing the song of
spider-man and shooting at all the
world
do not worry about a few more seconds
late they typed it between all the
nurses and it did not happen to more but they
I talk that so they can see how I really
we feel like superheroes when
we are there in fact something happened to me
that made me feel like a superhero
Once I had before I no longer have it but
I had a tube that passed me from the brain
to the abdomen and it looked not under the skin
I knew how I had it but I did not
located very well as because I so that
I was very busy playing and doing
my things and I did not care to know the
details but one day it burst
when it burst open I was all seen
the pieces below the skin of a
awesome way
I did not get scared but my mom like that
scared a little I saw that my mom
I was scared that made me nervous
but that’s how adults are not
stress then they took me to
hospital and they set me apart in a
room where suddenly a
nurse and he started talking to me in Russian
in German or I do not know in what language
words like drift valve
of cerebrospinal fluid and things
that I did not understand if I stayed like
that it’s repeated me and I went back to
say I have no idea what you’re doing to me
saying he opened his big eyes the
nurse and told me you do not know you do not know
truth and I what are you talking about and there are no
know if it came out about 10 minutes
they enter with the tail between my legs
mom and one of my neurosurgeons with
scold face then to tell me that
they had happened to tell me true that
it was half robot half human and for
explain they brought me one or an x-ray
where all my puppies from the
head and abdomen and tubes and everything
what I have there floating inside if
they thought or they told me and they
they were left with what they thought was going to
start crying or screaming I rebate them
to the doctor the x-ray and I remember
that moment as if it were yesterday I see it and
all those things that I have inside of me
body and they make me work and I
I felt as if Charlie had just arrived
Xavier to tell me that I was going to join the
X Men
do not know there I grabbed my superpowers and
well, that was a moment
wonderful and not only dreamed of
be part of the x-men there while
I was in the hospital sometimes evicted
sometimes not so much had other dreams
one of them was being an actress and I made it
I managed to act this as they were already told
for Aztec television for telemundo
I worked for history chanel worked
in mexico in usa in france in spain
has traveled all over the world and this is
relevant because I want to explain
how is it that a girl who grew up
evicted in hospitals whose
family told him more than once
for they were saying goodbye I managed to meet
all those dreams maybe you
they have some hospital child in their
lives maybe your son is your neighbor or
your nephew your friend and then I’ll
I want to talk about how it was my experience
so you can take it into account
In their lifes
or something very important in my life that
they were my dads my doctor dad was
commissioned to design and supervise all the
installation of my spare parts and my mom
he always told me that I could do what
that I would like to do as long as
what I chose was the best my mom
she never told me, poor thing, is that you
it hurts that you are sick is that you
because you can not go out the
tubes by the ears no no no my mom me
he let my mom play told me to do
the task and to pick up my room what
which I did not like so much but what
we do and that’s the joke because to
me being like that was normal I thought that
all my colleagues left the
primary and they are taken to the hospital all
we have something that makes us different and
that makes us different from the
others but that for us is normal
not maybe it’s your hair color to
you better have a mole on your face that
everyone remembers the boy of
lunar but you do not walk for life
Today I have I want Alcacer Oh my mole
I have to go to work my mole already
it made me late for school my mole
not true for me is the same or I do not
I ‘m thinking that if I have my head
full of iron
or that if I have 36 scars or not for
my life is like that and that’s my normal
for all hospital children if you
you do not teach them if you do not teach us that
it hurts us that we are different than
we are sick
we are going to grow normal by
example when I feel bad if I have
migraine because I know I have a fever I know
I have pressure behind the eye and I know that
I have half asleep to the skull but I
I do my things I go to school I go to
work I go to the super because for me that
is normal and if I had been a child
taught to put my whole focus on what
what made me different in what I
I was sick in what hurt me
I would have grown thinking only about
that now I understand that when you
they open their brains and they are fierce
inside is not the only type of pain that
there are other types of pain that
we all have to face all
day and it is up to each person whether
we are going to focus on the long sharp
glossy and large needle that we
they are going to put in the veins
or if we start singing the song of
spider-man and we shoot cobwebs to
our fears that is our decision
another thing that we can also decide is
help others focus on what
wonderful that is to be alive and in all
the good things that we have to our
around instead of focusing on that
pain or in that problem or in that thing
what makes you different in a negative way
because we can also use pain and
the bad things to get things
good in our life I will tell you
another story but please not the
tell my high school teachers because
you can still angry with me
some occasion we had to learn
a dance for a festival at school
We were a group of girls who left us
leave every day of class to go
to rehearse I do not need to tell you that
he taught we rehearsed if we did not do anything
true then when three were missing
days obviously we did not know the
choreography and our teacher very
angry made us go at 7 o’clock in the morning
on Saturday
all afternoon to rehearse then of
suddenly I felt that I already had as well
wet her tummy and I turned her over today
I say to my best friend, hey, look, I’m already
sweating from everything we are dancing
the two turned around to see my hand us
we turned to see and there he took the
decision turns out that what he had in the
hand was not sweat was a little bit of
blood because then suddenly my
scars open and you have to patch
the then then I sat down I did the
that I was dying and then we
we went out we went to be known
fast of the red cross’ and we went to
eat ice cream all day in the moll yes
they see that the pain can serve to
their benefit from time to time children do not
do that at home so good before
say goodbye I want to tell you a story
that I’ve always said is the best
that I have to give to another being
human in one of the many occasions
that after I woke up in the hospital in
bits without knowing what had happened to me
open your eyes and there are between 8 and 12
doctors and nurses sewing and mending
giving me everywhere
I was in one of those changes in the
that you’re like half sitting like those in
the dentists then nothing else I saw
up I could not see down just
I saw the little heads of people go by and
I said good because you already do it to me neither
I wonder better now that they finish
and tell me what happened when I was
about the face one of the doctors is
lower the mask and I can see
with that face that I know also that
do the doctors when you already valued and
Sara tells me I have to say something and
I yes doctor what happens now imagine
please that you are in this
situation and that your doctor arrives and
says the following imagine how
they would react
you lack a finger you dropped a finger
imagine that as I tell you then I
I’m looking at the text I can not turn around
I do not know if it ‘s a toe I do not know if
it’s a finger I do not know if he’s the
thumb i have no idea
they already imagined how they would react
you if you missed a finger
they want to know what I did, this is the
head back he laughed
that came out of my soul and I told him
doctor, I’m alive, I think that
imports a finger
for me that finger was not worth enough
to take away the emotion I felt in
that moment of knowing that I was still alive today
this week this month this year that has
valid enough for you to get
Remove the smile and the emotion of being
alive
I leave you homework thanks
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