Allison Hunt: How I got my new hip

Prevodilac: Sandra Gojic Lektor: Ivana Korom

Allison Hunt: My three minutes hasn't started yet, has it?

Moje tri minute nisu još počele, je l' da?

Chris Anderson: No, you can't start the three minutes.

Kris Anderson: Ne, ne možete da počnete da brojite.

Reset the three minutes, that's just not fair.

Vratite na početak, to nije fer.

AH: Oh my God, it's harsh up here.

Alison Hant: O moj bože, teško je ovde gore.

I mean I'm nervous enough as it is.

Mislim, već sam dovoljno nervozna.

But I am not as nervous as I was five weeks ago.

Ali nisam toliko nervozna kao pre pet nedelja.

Five weeks ago I had total hip replacement surgery.

Pre pet nedelja imala sam operaciju potpune zamene kuka

Do you know that surgery?

- znate tu operaciju?

Electric saw, power drill, totally disgusting

Električna testera, bušilica, potpuno odvratno.

unless you're David Bolinsky, in which case it's all truth and beauty.

Osim ako ste David Bolinski, u tom slučaju je med i mleko.

Sure David, if it's not your hip, it's truth and beauty.

Da, Davide, ako nije tvoj kuk, onda je med i mleko.

Anyway, I did have a really big epiphany around the situation,

Kako god, imala sam zaista veliko prosvetljenje u ovoj situaciji,

so Chris invited me to tell you about it.

pa me je Kris pozvao da to podelim sa vama.

But first you need to know two things about me.

Ali prvo morate da znate dve stvari o meni.

Just two things.

Samo dve stvari.

I'm Canadian, and I'm the youngest of seven kids.

Ja sam Kanađanka i najmlađa od sedmoro dece.

Now, in Canada, we have that great healthcare system.

E sad, u Kanadi imamo taj sjajan zdravstveni sistem.

That means we get our new hips for free.

To znači da dobijamo novi kuk za džabe.

And being the youngest of seven,

A kako sam najmlađa od sedmoro dece,

I have never been at the front of the line for anything. OK?

nikada nisam bila prva u redu za bilo šta, OK?

So my hip had been hurting me for years.

Dakle, kuk me je boleo godinama.

I finally went to the doctor, which was free.

Konačno sam otišla kod doktora, što je bilo besplatno,

And she referred me to an orthopedic surgeon, also free.

i ona me je poslala kod ortopedskog hirurga, takođe džabe.

Finally got to see him after 10 months of waiting -- almost a year.

Konačno sam ga videla nakon 10 meseci čekanja - skoro godinu dana.

That is what free gets you.

To dobijate kad je "džabe".

I met the surgeon, and he took some free X-rays,

Otišla sam na pregled, hirurg je uradio rentgen,

and I got a good look at them. And you know,

i dobro sam pogledala snimak, znate,

even I could tell my hip was bad,

čak i ja sam mogla da vidim da je moj kuk loše.

and I actually work in marketing.

A ja radim u marketingu.

So he said, "Allison, we've got to get you on the table.

I rekao je, "Alison, moramo da vas stavimo na sto.

I'm going to replace your hip -- it's about an 18-month wait."

Zameniću vam kuk - za nekih 18 meseci."

18 more months.

Još 18 meseci.

I'd already waited 10 months, and I had to wait 18 more months.

Ja sam već čekala 10 meseci i moram da čekam još 18.

You know, it's such a long wait that I actually

Znate, to je toliko dugo da sam

started to even think about it in terms of TEDs.

počela da razmišljam u TED terminima.

I wouldn't have my new hip for this TED.

Ne bih imala moj novi kuk za ovaj TED,

I wouldn't have my new hip for TEDGlobal in Africa.

ne bih imala novi kuk za TEDGlobal u Africi,

I would not have my new hip for TED2008.

ne bih imala novi kuk za TED2008.

I would still be on my bad hip. That was so disappointing.

I dalje bih imala svoj stari kuk. To je bilo vrlo razočaravajuće.

So, I left his office and I was walking through the hospital,

I tako sam napustila njegovu kancelariju i hodala kroz bolnicu,

and that's when I had my epiphany.

kad mi se desilo prosvetljenje.

This youngest of seven had to get herself to the front of the line.

Ova najmlađa od sedam morala je da se pomeri ispred svih.

Oh yeah.

O da.

Can I tell you how un-Canadian that is?

Da li moram da vam kažem koliko to ne liči na Kanađane?

We do not think that way.

Mi ne razmišljamo na taj način.

We don't talk about it. It's not even a consideration.

Ne razgovaramo o tome - hm - čak ni ne razmišljamo o tome.

In fact, when we're traveling abroad, it's how we identify fellow Canadians.

Ustvari, kada putujemo van zemlje, tako prepoznajemo zemljake.

"After you." "Oh, no, no. After you."

"Posle vas". "O ne, ne. Posle vas."

Hey, are you from Canada? "Oh, me too! Hi!"

Hej, jesi ti iz Kanade?" "O, i ja sam! Zdravo!"

"Great! Excellent!"

"Sjajno! Divno!"

So no, suddenly I wasn't averse to butting any geezer off the list.

Dakle ne, odjednom se nisam osećala loše po pitanju guranja nekog čudaka sa liste.

Some 70-year-old who wanted his new hip

Nekog 70 - godišnjaka kojem je trebao novi kuk

so he could be back golfing, or gardening.

kako bi mogao da se vrati golfu ili vrtlarstvu.

No, no. Front of the line.

Ne, ne. Na čelo kolone.

So by now I was walking the lobby, and of course, that hurt,

Dakle, šetam hodnikom i naravno, to boli,

because of my hip, and I kind of needed a sign.

zbog mog kuka i bio mi je potreban znak.

And I saw a sign.

I videla sam znak.

In the window of the hospital's tiny gift shop there was a sign

U izlogu bolničke prodavnice darova, stajao je znak

that said, "Volunteers Needed." Hmm.

koji je govorio, "Potrebni volonteri." Hmm.

Well, they signed me up immediately.

Pa, odmah su me upisali.

No reference checks. None of the usual background stuff, no.

Bez provere preporuka, bez uobičajenih stvari, ne.

They were desperate for volunteers

Bili su očajni za volonterima

because the average age of the volunteer at the hospital gift shop was 75.

jer je prosečna starost volontera u bolničkoj prodavnici bila 75.

Yeah. They needed some young blood.

Da. Bila im je potrebna mlada krv.

So, next thing you know, I had my bright blue volunteer vest,

I nisam se ni okrenula, a imala sam na sebi svetlo plavi volonterski prsluk,

I had my photo ID, and I was fully trained by my 89-year-old boss.

moju identifikacionu karticu, i potpuno me je obučio moj šef od 89 godina.

I worked alone.

Radila sam sama.

Every Friday morning I was at the gift shop.

Svakog petka ujutru bila sam u radnji sa darovima.

While ringing in hospital staff's Tic Tacs,

I dok je bolničko osoblje kupovalo svoje sitnice,

I'd casually ask, "What do you do?"

usput bih pitala, "Šta radite?"

Then I'd tell them, "Well, I'm getting my hip replaced -- in 18 months.

Onda bih im rekla, "Pa, ja ću menjati kuk - za 18 meseci.

It's gonna be so great when the pain stops. Ow!"

Biće sjajno kad bol prestane. Ooo!"

All the staff got to know the plucky, young volunteer.

Čitavo osoblje je znalo za hrabru, mladu volonterku.

My next surgeon's appointment was, coincidentally,

Moj sledeći pregled kod hirurga je, slučajno,

right after a shift at the gift shop.

bio odmah posle smene u prodavnici.

So, naturally, I had my vest and my identification.

I prirodno, imala sam svoj prsluk i svoju identifikaciju.

I draped them casually over the chair in the doctor's office.

Opušteno sam ih okačila na stolicu u doktorovoj ordinaciji.

And you know, when he walked in,

I znate, kada je ušao,

I could just tell that he saw them.

mogla sam da vidim da ih je primetio.

Moments later, I had a surgery date just weeks away,

Par trenutaka kasnije, zakazana mi je operacija samo za par nedelja,

and a big fat prescription for Percocet.

i prepisana mi je velika doza Perkoceta (analgetik).

Now, word on the street was that it was actually

E sada, na ulici se pričalo kako mi je zapravo

my volunteering that got me to the front of the line.

moje volontiranje poguralo na početak reda.

And, you know, I'm not even ashamed of that.

I znate, ne stidim se toga.

Two reasons.

Iz dva razloga.

First of all, I am going to take such good care of this new hip.

Pre svega, dobro ću se brinuti o ovom novom kuku.

But also I intend to stick with the volunteering,

Ali isto tako, imam nameru da nastavim da volontiram,

which actually leads me to the biggest epiphany of them all.

što me ustvari dovodi do najvećeg prosvetljenja od svih.

Even when a Canadian cheats the system,

Čak i kada Kanađani varaju sistem,

they do it in a way that benefits society.

rade to na način koji služi društvu.